Macer
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ancient Roman general
ancient Roman historian
ancient Roman orator
ancient Roman poet
ancient Roman senator
person
surname
Macer is a surname that may refer to various individuals across different fields and contexts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macer canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10687248 — 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: Macer Context triple: [Kate Macer, familyName, Macer]
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A.
Mesoraca
Mesoraca is a town in the Calabria region of southern Italy, historically notable as the birthplace of Pope Zosimus.
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B.
Mazaces
Mazaces was a late Achaemenid Persian official who briefly governed Egypt as satrap during the empire’s final years before Alexander the Great’s conquest.
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C.
Marcali
Marcali is a small town in southwestern Hungary known for its agricultural surroundings and role as a local administrative and service center in Somogy County.
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D.
Mardaric
Mardaric is a minor river in southeastern France that serves as one of the tributaries feeding the Bléone River.
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E.
Machaon
Machaon is a figure from Greek mythology, renowned as a skilled healer and son of the legendary physician Asclepius.
- 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: Macer Target entity description: Macer is a surname that may refer to various individuals across different fields and contexts.
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A.
Mesoraca
Mesoraca is a town in the Calabria region of southern Italy, historically notable as the birthplace of Pope Zosimus.
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B.
Mazaces
Mazaces was a late Achaemenid Persian official who briefly governed Egypt as satrap during the empire’s final years before Alexander the Great’s conquest.
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C.
Marcali
Marcali is a small town in southwestern Hungary known for its agricultural surroundings and role as a local administrative and service center in Somogy County.
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D.
Mardaric
Mardaric is a minor river in southeastern France that serves as one of the tributaries feeding the Bléone River.
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E.
Machaon
Machaon is a figure from Greek mythology, renowned as a skilled healer and son of the legendary physician Asclepius.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman general
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ancient Roman historian ⓘ ancient Roman orator ⓘ ancient Roman poet ⓘ ancient Roman senator ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
Latin-language surnames
ⓘ
Roman cognomina ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Roman
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Ancient Roman ⓘ Ancient Roman ⓘ Ancient Roman ⓘ Ancient Roman ⓘ Ancient Roman ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from Latin cognomen Macer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | didactic poetry ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Aemilius Macer
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Aulus Licinius Macer ⓘ Gaius Licinius Macer ⓘ Lucius Clodius Macer ⓘ Publius Calpurnius Macer Caulius Rufus ⓘ Quintus Baebius Macer ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Macerus ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| meaning | thin or lean in Latin ⓘ |
| notableFor | revolt against Nero ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ornithogonia
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Theriaca ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
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historian ⓘ orator ⓘ poet ⓘ politician ⓘ senator ⓘ senator ⓘ |
| usedAs | Roman cognomen ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Macer Description of subject: Macer is a surname that may refer to various individuals across different fields and contexts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.