Fausta (second wife of Constantius II, sometimes called Faustina)
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Fausta, sometimes called Faustina, was the second wife of the Roman emperor Constantius II and briefly served as empress of the Roman Empire in the 4th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fausta (second wife of Constantius II, sometimes called Faustina) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10347595 — 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: Fausta (second wife of Constantius II, sometimes called Faustina) Context triple: [Eusebia, successorAsEmpress, Fausta (second wife of Constantius II, sometimes called Faustina)]
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Fausta (first wife of Constantius II)
Fausta was the first, little-documented wife of the Roman emperor Constantius II, known primarily through brief mentions in imperial family records.
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Maxima (wife of Constantius II)
Maxima was a Roman noblewoman of the 4th century, known primarily as the wife of Emperor Constantius II.
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C.
Constantia (sister of Constantine)
Constantia was a Roman imperial princess, the half-sister of Emperor Constantine the Great, known for her influence at court and involvement in key ecclesiastical and political affairs of the early 4th century.
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D.
Annia Cornificia Faustina
Annia Cornificia Faustina was a Roman noblewoman of the 2nd century AD, a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty and granddaughter of Emperor Antoninus Pius.
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E.
Domitia Faustina
Domitia Faustina was a Roman imperial daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Empress Faustina the Younger, belonging to the prominent Antonine dynasty.
- 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: Fausta (second wife of Constantius II, sometimes called Faustina) Target entity description: Fausta, sometimes called Faustina, was the second wife of the Roman emperor Constantius II and briefly served as empress of the Roman Empire in the 4th century.
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A.
Fausta (first wife of Constantius II)
Fausta was the first, little-documented wife of the Roman emperor Constantius II, known primarily through brief mentions in imperial family records.
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B.
Maxima (wife of Constantius II)
Maxima was a Roman noblewoman of the 4th century, known primarily as the wife of Emperor Constantius II.
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C.
Constantia (sister of Constantine)
Constantia was a Roman imperial princess, the half-sister of Emperor Constantine the Great, known for her influence at court and involvement in key ecclesiastical and political affairs of the early 4th century.
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D.
Annia Cornificia Faustina
Annia Cornificia Faustina was a Roman noblewoman of the 2nd century AD, a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty and granddaughter of Emperor Antoninus Pius.
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E.
Domitia Faustina
Domitia Faustina was a Roman imperial daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Empress Faustina the Younger, belonging to the prominent Antonine dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Roman empress
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historical figure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Faustina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| maritalOrder | second wife of Constantius II ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the second wife of Emperor Constantius II
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briefly serving as Roman empress ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Empress of the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Constantius II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 4th century ⓘ |
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: Fausta (second wife of Constantius II, sometimes called Faustina) Description of subject: Fausta, sometimes called Faustina, was the second wife of the Roman emperor Constantius II and briefly served as empress of the Roman Empire in the 4th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.