Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus (son)
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Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, best known as a descendant of the dictator Sulla and a member of the influential Cornelii Sullae family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus (son) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11520881 — 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: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus (son) Context triple: [Faustus Cornelius Sulla, relative, Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus (son)]
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A.
Gaius Marius the Younger
Gaius Marius the Younger was a Roman politician and general, son of the famous general Gaius Marius, who served as consul in 82 BC and played a key role in the civil wars against Sulla.
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B.
Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius was a Roman architect known for designing the Tabularium, the official records office of ancient Rome located on the Capitoline Hill.
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C.
Gnaeus Pompeius (son of Pompey)
Gnaeus Pompeius was the elder son of Pompey the Great, a Roman military commander and staunch opponent of Julius Caesar who continued his father's resistance during the civil war before being defeated and killed.
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D.
Quintus Pompeius Rufus
Quintus Pompeius Rufus was a Roman senator and consul of the late Republic, notable for his political alliances with figures such as Sulla.
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E.
Marcus Livius Drusus the Younger
Marcus Livius Drusus the Younger was a late 2nd–early 1st century BC Roman politician best known for his ambitious reform program and assassination, events that helped trigger the Social War.
- 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: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus (son) Target entity description: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, best known as a descendant of the dictator Sulla and a member of the influential Cornelii Sullae family.
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A.
Gaius Marius the Younger
Gaius Marius the Younger was a Roman politician and general, son of the famous general Gaius Marius, who served as consul in 82 BC and played a key role in the civil wars against Sulla.
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B.
Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius was a Roman architect known for designing the Tabularium, the official records office of ancient Rome located on the Capitoline Hill.
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C.
Gnaeus Pompeius (son of Pompey)
Gnaeus Pompeius was the elder son of Pompey the Great, a Roman military commander and staunch opponent of Julius Caesar who continued his father's resistance during the civil war before being defeated and killed.
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D.
Quintus Pompeius Rufus
Quintus Pompeius Rufus was a Roman senator and consul of the late Republic, notable for his political alliances with figures such as Sulla.
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E.
Marcus Livius Drusus the Younger
Marcus Livius Drusus the Younger was a late 2nd–early 1st century BC Roman politician best known for his ambitious reform program and assassination, events that helped trigger the Social War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman Republican-era person
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ancient Roman nobleman ⓘ member of the Roman senatorial aristocracy ⓘ |
| agnomen | Faustus ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Cornelii Sullae lineage ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman citizen ⓘ |
| cognomen | Sulla ⓘ |
| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Roman ⓘ |
| familyNameDerivedFrom |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (dictator)
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linked to:
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (dictator)
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linked to:
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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| historicalContext | post-Sullan Roman politics ⓘ |
| historicalEra | 1st century BC (approximate) ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Cornelii Sullae family
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gens Cornelia ⓘ |
| name |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus
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linked to:
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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| nomen | Cornelius ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a descendant of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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belonging to the influential Cornelii Sullae branch of the gens Cornelia ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| praenomen | Lucius ⓘ |
| region |
Roman Italy
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linked to:
Italia (Roman province)
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| socialClass |
Roman aristocracy
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senatorial class ⓘ |
| socialStatus | nobilis ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late Roman Republic ⓘ |
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: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus (son) Description of subject: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, best known as a descendant of the dictator Sulla and a member of the influential Cornelii Sullae family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.