Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus)
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Publius Septimius Geta was a Roman provincial aristocrat from Leptis Magna and the father of the future emperor Septimius Severus.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus) canonical | 2 |
| Publius Septimius Geta | 1 |
| Publius Septimius Geta (younger) | 1 |
| Publius Septimius Geta the Younger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11600262 — 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: Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus) Context triple: [Fulvia Pia, spouse, Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus)]
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Publius Septimius Geta
Publius Septimius Geta was a Roman emperor of the Severan dynasty who briefly ruled jointly with his brother Caracalla before being murdered in a violent power struggle.
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Sextus Julius Severus
Sextus Julius Severus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman general and governor, best known for his decisive role in suppressing the Bar Kokhba revolt in Judea.
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Marcus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus (brother)
Marcus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus was a son of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger, known primarily as a member of the imperial Antonine dynasty.
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D.
Helvius Pertinax the Younger
Helvius Pertinax the Younger was the son of the Roman emperor Pertinax, briefly associated with the imperial family during the turbulent Year of the Five Emperors in 193 AD.
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E.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
- 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: Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus) Target entity description: Publius Septimius Geta was a Roman provincial aristocrat from Leptis Magna and the father of the future emperor Septimius Severus.
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A.
Publius Septimius Geta
Publius Septimius Geta was a Roman emperor of the Severan dynasty who briefly ruled jointly with his brother Caracalla before being murdered in a violent power struggle.
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B.
Sextus Julius Severus
Sextus Julius Severus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman general and governor, best known for his decisive role in suppressing the Bar Kokhba revolt in Judea.
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C.
Marcus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus (brother)
Marcus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus was a son of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger, known primarily as a member of the imperial Antonine dynasty.
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D.
Helvius Pertinax the Younger
Helvius Pertinax the Younger was the son of the Roman emperor Pertinax, briefly associated with the imperial family during the turbulent Year of the Five Emperors in 193 AD.
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E.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman aristocrat
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Roman provincial elite ⓘ member of the equestrian order ⓘ provincial aristocrat ⓘ |
| child |
Publius Septimius Geta (younger)
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Septimia ⓘ Septimia Octavilla ⓘ
linked to:
Septimia
Septimius Severus ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| country | Africa Proconsularis ⓘ |
| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Libyan-Punic
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Punic ⓘ |
| familyName | Septimius ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Septimius Severus ⓘ |
| floruit | 2nd century ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | local governance of Leptis Magna ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Latin
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Punic ⓘ |
| livedIn | Leptis Magna ⓘ |
| memberOf | gens Septimia ⓘ |
| name | Publius Septimius Geta ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of emperor Septimius Severus ⓘ |
| occupation |
local official
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magistrate ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Leptis Magna ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Leptis Magna ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
duumvir of Leptis Magna
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sufes of Leptis Magna ⓘ |
| relative | Gaius Septimius Severus (cousin of Septimius Severus) ⓘ |
| religion | Roman polytheism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Fulvia Pia ⓘ |
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: Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus) Description of subject: Publius Septimius Geta was a Roman provincial aristocrat from Leptis Magna and the father of the future emperor Septimius Severus.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus)
linked to: Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus)
subject linked to:
Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus)
linked to: Publius Septimius Geta (father of Septimius Severus)