Spartan commander Epitadas
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Spartan commander Epitadas was the Spartan officer who led the garrison on Sphacteria during the Peloponnesian War and was killed in the famous Athenian assault on the island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spartan commander Epitadas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13385979 — 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: Spartan commander Epitadas Context triple: [Sphacteria, associatedWith, Spartan commander Epitadas]
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Leonidas of Tarentum
Leonidas of Tarentum was an ancient Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period, known for his concise, often melancholic poems preserved in the Greek Anthology.
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B.
Spartan king Pleistoanax
Spartan king Pleistoanax was a 5th-century BCE Agiad ruler of Sparta known for his controversial leadership, including a peace-oriented policy toward Athens that led to his temporary exile.
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C.
Leonidas of Naxos
Leonidas of Naxos was an ancient Greek figure from the island of Naxos, notable enough in antiquity to have the Leonidaion building named in his honor.
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D.
Pelopidas
Pelopidas was a prominent 4th-century BCE Theban statesman and general, known for his leadership of the Sacred Band and his role in challenging Spartan dominance in Greece.
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E.
King of Sparta
Archidamus III was a 4th-century BC Spartan king known for his military leadership during the Peloponnesian War’s aftermath and conflicts with Thebes and Macedon.
- 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: Spartan commander Epitadas Target entity description: Spartan commander Epitadas was the Spartan officer who led the garrison on Sphacteria during the Peloponnesian War and was killed in the famous Athenian assault on the island.
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A.
Leonidas of Tarentum
Leonidas of Tarentum was an ancient Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period, known for his concise, often melancholic poems preserved in the Greek Anthology.
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B.
Spartan king Pleistoanax
Spartan king Pleistoanax was a 5th-century BCE Agiad ruler of Sparta known for his controversial leadership, including a peace-oriented policy toward Athens that led to his temporary exile.
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C.
Leonidas of Naxos
Leonidas of Naxos was an ancient Greek figure from the island of Naxos, notable enough in antiquity to have the Leonidaion building named in his honor.
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D.
Pelopidas
Pelopidas was a prominent 4th-century BCE Theban statesman and general, known for his leadership of the Sacred Band and his role in challenging Spartan dominance in Greece.
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E.
King of Sparta
Archidamus III was a 4th-century BC Spartan king known for his military leadership during the Peloponnesian War’s aftermath and conflicts with Thebes and Macedon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spartan military commander
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ancient Greek person ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Athenian assault on Sphacteria ⓘ |
| citizenship | Sparta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanded | Spartan garrison on Sphacteria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Battle of Sphacteria
NERFINISHED
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Peloponnesian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn | Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Spartans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Laconia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in battle ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Spartan army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | death during Athenian capture of Sphacteria ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding the Spartan garrison on Sphacteria ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| opponent |
Athenian army
NERFINISHED
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Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Sphacteria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | garrison commander on Sphacteria ⓘ |
| sideInConflict |
Peloponnesian League
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sparta in the Peloponnesian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 5th century BC ⓘ |
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: Spartan commander Epitadas Description of subject: Spartan commander Epitadas was the Spartan officer who led the garrison on Sphacteria during the Peloponnesian War and was killed in the famous Athenian assault on the island.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sphacteria