Mamercus
E900023
Mamercus is an ancient Roman praenomen (given name) notably used by members of the patrician gens Aemilia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mamercus canonical | 7 |
| Appius | 1 |
| Mamercinus (cognomen derived from Mamercus) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11007825 — 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: Mamercus Context triple: [gens Aemilia, praenomenUsed, Mamercus]
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A.
Porcius
Porcius is the ancient Roman gens (clan) to which the statesman and philosopher Cato the Younger and his daughter Porcia Catonis belonged.
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B.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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C.
Quintus
Quintus is a traditional Latin praenomen (given name) commonly used in ancient Rome, often indicating the fifth-born child or associated with the number five.
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D.
Thascius
Thascius is the family name of the early Christian bishop and martyr Cyprian of Carthage.
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E.
Sempronio
Sempronio is one of Calisto’s servants in the Spanish tragicomedy "La Celestina," known for his complicity with the procuress Celestina and his self-serving betrayal.
- 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: Mamercus Target entity description: Mamercus is an ancient Roman praenomen (given name) notably used by members of the patrician gens Aemilia.
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A.
Porcius
Porcius is the ancient Roman gens (clan) to which the statesman and philosopher Cato the Younger and his daughter Porcia Catonis belonged.
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B.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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C.
Quintus
Quintus is a traditional Latin praenomen (given name) commonly used in ancient Rome, often indicating the fifth-born child or associated with the number five.
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D.
Thascius
Thascius is the family name of the early Christian bishop and martyr Cyprian of Carthage.
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E.
Sempronio
Sempronio is one of Calisto’s servants in the Spanish tragicomedy "La Celestina," known for his complicity with the procuress Celestina and his self-serving betrayal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman praenomen
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| associatedWithSocialClass | patrician ⓘ |
| category | Roman praenomina ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Roman naming conventions ⓘ |
| etymologyRelatedTo | Mamers ⓘ |
| gender | masculine name ⓘ |
| hasVariantForm | Mamertus ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfUse |
Roman Republic
ⓘ
early Roman Empire ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| MamersIs | Oscan form of Mars ⓘ |
| nameBearer |
Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus
ⓘ
Mamercus Aemilius Mamercinus ⓘ |
| nameElementOf |
Mamercinus (cognomen derived from Mamercus)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mamercus
|
| notablyUsedBy | gens Aemilia ⓘ |
| onomaType | personal name ⓘ |
| praenomenAbbreviation |
Mamer.
ⓘ
linked to:
Mamer
|
| relatedName |
Mamertinus
ⓘ
linked to:
Mamertus
|
| shortForm | Mamercus → Mamers (in some Italic contexts) ⓘ |
| theophoricName | Mars ⓘ |
| typicalBearersStatus | patrician magistrates ⓘ |
| usageStatus | rare in late Republic ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ancient Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
|
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Mamercus Description of subject: Mamercus is an ancient Roman praenomen (given name) notably used by members of the patrician gens Aemilia.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mamercus
linked to: Mamercus