Marcellinus
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Marcellinus is a Roman agnomen used by several members of the Cornelii Lentuli family, notably the statesman Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus of the late Roman Republic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marcellinus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9707389 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marcellinus Context triple: [Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, agnomen, Marcellinus]
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Marcellinus
Marcellinus was a powerful 5th-century Roman military commander and semi-independent ruler in Dalmatia who played a key role in the politics of the late Western Roman Empire.
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Germinius of Sirmium
Germinius of Sirmium was a 4th-century Christian bishop known for his involvement in the Arian controversy and ecclesiastical politics of the late Roman Empire.
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Eusebius of Nicomedia
Eusebius of Nicomedia was a 4th-century Christian bishop and influential Arian supporter who played a key role in the theological and political controversies surrounding the Council of Nicaea.
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D.
Leontius of Caesarea
Leontius of Caesarea was an early Christian bishop of Caesarea who played a key role in the Armenian Church by ordaining Gregory the Illuminator, the future patron saint and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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E.
Evagrius Scholasticus
Evagrius Scholasticus was a 6th-century Byzantine lawyer and church historian best known for his Ecclesiastical History, which chronicles religious and political events of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marcellinus Target entity description: Marcellinus is a Roman agnomen used by several members of the Cornelii Lentuli family, notably the statesman Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus of the late Roman Republic.
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A.
Marcellinus
Marcellinus was a powerful 5th-century Roman military commander and semi-independent ruler in Dalmatia who played a key role in the politics of the late Western Roman Empire.
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B.
Germinius of Sirmium
Germinius of Sirmium was a 4th-century Christian bishop known for his involvement in the Arian controversy and ecclesiastical politics of the late Roman Empire.
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C.
Eusebius of Nicomedia
Eusebius of Nicomedia was a 4th-century Christian bishop and influential Arian supporter who played a key role in the theological and political controversies surrounding the Council of Nicaea.
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D.
Leontius of Caesarea
Leontius of Caesarea was an early Christian bishop of Caesarea who played a key role in the Armenian Church by ordaining Gregory the Illuminator, the future patron saint and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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E.
Evagrius Scholasticus
Evagrius Scholasticus was a 6th-century Byzantine lawyer and church historian best known for his Ecclesiastical History, which chronicles religious and political events of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Marcellinus Description of subject: Marcellinus is a Roman agnomen used by several members of the Cornelii Lentuli family, notably the statesman Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus of the late Roman Republic.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.