Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus
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Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus was a Roman jurist and politician of the 2nd century BC, known for his legal expertise and as the son of the famous statesman Cato the Elder.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus canonical | 5 |
| Marcus Porcius Cato (son of Cato the Elder) | 2 |
| Marcus Porcius Cato (ancestor) | 1 |
| Marcus Porcius Cato (consul 118 BC) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10163361 — 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: Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus Context triple: [Porcia gens, hasNotableMember, Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus]
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Cato the Elder
Cato the Elder was a Roman statesman, orator, and moralist known for his staunch conservatism, advocacy of traditional Roman values, and repeated calls for the destruction of Carthage.
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Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger)
Marcus Porcius Cato, often called Cato the Elder’s grandson and father of Cato the Younger, was a Roman statesman of the late Republic known primarily through his connection to his more famous son.
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C.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was a prominent Roman statesman and jurist of the patrician Cornelii Scipiones family, known for his political influence during the middle Roman Republic.
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Cato the Younger
Cato the Younger was a Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher renowned for his incorruptible integrity and staunch opposition to Julius Caesar’s rise to power.
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Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Quintus Mucius Scaevola was a prominent Roman statesman and jurist of the late Republic, renowned for his expertise in law and his influence on Roman legal thought.
- 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: Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus Target entity description: Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus was a Roman jurist and politician of the 2nd century BC, known for his legal expertise and as the son of the famous statesman Cato the Elder.
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A.
Cato the Elder
Cato the Elder was a Roman statesman, orator, and moralist known for his staunch conservatism, advocacy of traditional Roman values, and repeated calls for the destruction of Carthage.
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B.
Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger)
Marcus Porcius Cato, often called Cato the Elder’s grandson and father of Cato the Younger, was a Roman statesman of the late Republic known primarily through his connection to his more famous son.
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C.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was a prominent Roman statesman and jurist of the patrician Cornelii Scipiones family, known for his political influence during the middle Roman Republic.
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D.
Cato the Younger
Cato the Younger was a Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher renowned for his incorruptible integrity and staunch opposition to Julius Caesar’s rise to power.
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E.
Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Quintus Mucius Scaevola was a prominent Roman statesman and jurist of the late Republic, renowned for his expertise in law and his influence on Roman legal thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman jurist
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ancient Roman politician ⓘ human ⓘ |
| agnomen | Licinianus ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| cognomen | Cato ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Roman ⓘ |
| era | 2nd century BC ⓘ |
| family |
Porcia (gens)
ⓘ
linked to:
Porcia gens
|
| father |
Cato the Elder
ⓘ
Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius ⓘ
linked to:
Cato the Elder
|
| fieldOfWork |
Roman law
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jurisprudence ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Roman jurisprudence
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being the son of Cato the Elder ⓘ legal expertise ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Latin ⓘ |
| mother | Licinia (first wife of Cato the Elder) ⓘ |
| name | Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus ⓘ |
| nomen | Porcius ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Cato the Elder ⓘ |
| occupation |
jurist
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legal scholar ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the Roman Senate ⓘ |
| praenomen | Marcus ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Roman Republic ⓘ |
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: Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus Description of subject: Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus was a Roman jurist and politician of the 2nd century BC, known for his legal expertise and as the son of the famous statesman Cato the Elder.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus
linked to: Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus
linked to: Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus
linked to: Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus