Marcus Porcius Laeca
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Marcus Porcius Laeca was a Roman politician of the Porcia gens, known for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy against the late Roman Republic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marcus Porcius Laeca canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10163368 — 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 Laeca Context triple: [Porcia gens, hasNotableMember, Marcus Porcius Laeca]
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A.
Lutatius
Lutatius was an ancient Roman family (gens) whose members, including Quintus Lutatius Catulus, held prominent political and military roles in the Roman Republic.
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B.
Lollius
Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
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C.
Servius Cornelius Cethegus
Servius Cornelius Cethegus was a Roman statesman from the prominent patrician Cornelii family who held high magistracies during the Roman Republic.
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D.
Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a leading Samnite commander and prominent rebel leader during the Roman Social War (91–88 BC).
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E.
Publius Valerius Laevinus
Publius Valerius Laevinus was a Roman consul and general of the early 3rd century BC, known for leading Roman forces during the initial phase of the Pyrrhic War against King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
- 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 Laeca Target entity description: Marcus Porcius Laeca was a Roman politician of the Porcia gens, known for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy against the late Roman Republic.
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A.
Lutatius
Lutatius was an ancient Roman family (gens) whose members, including Quintus Lutatius Catulus, held prominent political and military roles in the Roman Republic.
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B.
Lollius
Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
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C.
Servius Cornelius Cethegus
Servius Cornelius Cethegus was a Roman statesman from the prominent patrician Cornelii family who held high magistracies during the Roman Republic.
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D.
Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a leading Samnite commander and prominent rebel leader during the Roman Social War (91–88 BC).
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E.
Publius Valerius Laevinus
Publius Valerius Laevinus was a Roman consul and general of the early 3rd century BC, known for leading Roman forces during the initial phase of the Pyrrhic War against King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman politician
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member of the Porcia gens ⓘ participant in a political conspiracy ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Catilinarian conspirators
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Lucius Sergius Catilina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| cognomen | Laeca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conspiredAgainst |
Cicero
NERFINISHED
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Roman Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| era | Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Romans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Porcius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalContext | late Roman Republic political crises ⓘ |
| knownFor | plotting violence against consuls and senators ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf | gens Porcia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedInWork |
Cicero's Catilinarian Orations
NERFINISHED
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Sallust's Bellum Catilinae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nomen | Porcius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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senator ⓘ |
| participantIn | Catilinarian conspiracy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | supporter of Lucius Sergius Catilina ⓘ |
| politicalSphere | Roman Republic Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| praenomen | Marcus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | host of a meeting of Catiline and conspirators ⓘ |
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 Laeca Description of subject: Marcus Porcius Laeca was a Roman politician of the Porcia gens, known for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy against the late Roman Republic.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.