Quintilius
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Quintilius is a Roman cognomen derived from the praenomen Quintus, typically indicating membership in or association with the Quintilia family line.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quintilius canonical | 1 |
| Quintilius (various Roman individuals) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11140532 — 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: Quintilius Context triple: [Quintus, hasCognomenDerived, Quintilius]
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A.
Titus Ollius
Titus Ollius was a Roman of the early Imperial period, chiefly known as the father of the future empress Poppaea Sabina.
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B.
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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C.
Quintus Atius Balbus
Quintus Atius Balbus was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, best known as the father of Julia Minor and thus a maternal ancestor of the first Roman emperor, Augustus.
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D.
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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E.
Gaius Aurelius Cotta
Gaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman statesman and consul of the 3rd century BC, noted for his role in Roman politics and military affairs.
- 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: Quintilius Target entity description: Quintilius is a Roman cognomen derived from the praenomen Quintus, typically indicating membership in or association with the Quintilia family line.
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A.
Titus Ollius
Titus Ollius was a Roman of the early Imperial period, chiefly known as the father of the future empress Poppaea Sabina.
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B.
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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C.
Quintus Atius Balbus
Quintus Atius Balbus was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, best known as the father of Julia Minor and thus a maternal ancestor of the first Roman emperor, Augustus.
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D.
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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E.
Gaius Aurelius Cotta
Gaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman statesman and consul of the 3rd century BC, noted for his role in Roman politics and military affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Roman cognomen ⓘ |
| associatedWith | gens Quintilia ⓘ |
| category |
Ancient Roman names
ⓘ
Latin-language surnames ⓘ |
| cognomenOf |
Quintilius (various Roman individuals)
ⓘ
linked to:
Quintilius
Quintilius Varus ⓘ
linked to:
Publius Quinctilius Varus
|
| cognomenPattern | formed from a praenomen plus suffix -ilius ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Roman aristocratic and citizen families ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Quintus ⓘ |
| etymologicalMeaning | related to the number five ⓘ |
| familyIndicator | yes ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| indicates |
association with the Quintilia family line
ⓘ
membership in the Quintilia family line ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| nameType | cognomen ⓘ |
| namingConvention | Roman naming conventions ⓘ |
| origin |
Roman Italy
ⓘ
linked to:
Italia (Roman province)
|
| partOf | Roman tria nomina system ⓘ |
| positionInName | third name in a Roman citizen’s full name ⓘ |
| relatedPraenomen | Quintus ⓘ |
| usedBy | members of the Quintilia gens ⓘ |
| 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: Quintilius Description of subject: Quintilius is a Roman cognomen derived from the praenomen Quintus, typically indicating membership in or association with the Quintilia family line.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Quintilius