Rex Suevorum
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Rex Suevorum is the Latin royal title meaning "King of the Suevi," used for rulers of the Suevic kingdom in late antiquity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rex Suevorum canonical | 3 |
| rex Suevorum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10501038 — 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: Rex Suevorum Context triple: [Rechila, title, Rex Suevorum]
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A.
Niceratus
Niceratus is a character in Xenophon’s works, depicted as the wealthy and educated son of the Athenian general Nicias.
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B.
Rex Nemorensis
Rex Nemorensis is the legendary priest-king of the sacred grove at Nemi in ancient Roman religion, whose violent succession ritual became a central example in James Frazer’s study of myth and magic.
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C.
Rex Merciorum
Rex Merciorum is the Latin royal title meaning "King of the Mercians," historically associated with rulers of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia such as Offa.
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D.
Cercartetus lepidus
Cercartetus lepidus is a tiny Australian marsupial known as the little pygmy possum, notable for being one of the world’s smallest possums.
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E.
Rex Scottorum
Rex Scottorum is the Latin royal title meaning "King of the Scots," historically used by Scottish monarchs such as Alexander I.
- 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: Rex Suevorum Target entity description: Rex Suevorum is the Latin royal title meaning "King of the Suevi," used for rulers of the Suevic kingdom in late antiquity.
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A.
Niceratus
Niceratus is a character in Xenophon’s works, depicted as the wealthy and educated son of the Athenian general Nicias.
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B.
Rex Nemorensis
Rex Nemorensis is the legendary priest-king of the sacred grove at Nemi in ancient Roman religion, whose violent succession ritual became a central example in James Frazer’s study of myth and magic.
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C.
Rex Merciorum
Rex Merciorum is the Latin royal title meaning "King of the Mercians," historically associated with rulers of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia such as Offa.
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D.
Cercartetus lepidus
Cercartetus lepidus is a tiny Australian marsupial known as the little pygmy possum, notable for being one of the world’s smallest possums.
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E.
Rex Scottorum
Rex Scottorum is the Latin royal title meaning "King of the Scots," historically used by Scottish monarchs such as Alexander I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin term
ⓘ
monarchical title ⓘ royal title ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Suevi ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gallaecia
ⓘ
linked to:
Gallaeci
Suevic kingdom ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Germanic peoples ⓘ |
| category |
Germanic monarchy titles
ⓘ
Latin royal titles ⓘ |
| denotes | ethnic kingship over the Suevi ⓘ |
| governs |
Suevic polity in Gallaecia
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of the Suebi
|
| grammaticalCase | nominative ⓘ |
| grammaticalNumber | singular ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Rex
ⓘ
Suevorum ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | King of the Suevi ⓘ |
| historicalScope | post-Roman Western Empire ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| politicalRole | sovereign of the Suevi ⓘ |
| refersToEthnicGroup | Suebi ⓘ |
| region | northwestern Iberian Peninsula ⓘ |
| relatedTitle |
Rex Gothorum
ⓘ
Rex Vandalorum ⓘ |
| RexMeaning | king ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| SuevorumMeaning | of the Suevi ⓘ |
| timeFrameApproximateEnd | 6th century ⓘ |
| timeFrameApproximateStart | 5th century ⓘ |
| titleFor | Suevic kings ⓘ |
| usedBy | rulers of the Suevic kingdom ⓘ |
| usedFor | designation of Suevic kings in Iberia ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Latin charters
ⓘ
Latin chronicles ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
Latin historiography
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early medieval sources ⓘ late Roman sources ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod | late antiquity ⓘ |
| wordOrder | title-first ethnic-genitive ⓘ |
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: Rex Suevorum Description of subject: Rex Suevorum is the Latin royal title meaning "King of the Suevi," used for rulers of the Suevic kingdom in late antiquity.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.