Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey
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Menas, also known as Menodorus, was a notable 1st-century BC pirate and naval commander who served Sextus Pompey during the Roman civil wars, playing a key role in maritime operations against the Second Triumvirate.
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| Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20360491 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey Context triple: [Menas, historicalBasis, Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey]
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A.
Cilician pirates
The Cilician pirates were a powerful confederation of seafaring raiders in the eastern Mediterranean during the late Roman Republic, notorious for large-scale piracy, kidnapping, and disruption of trade until their suppression by Pompey in the 1st century BCE.
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B.
Pompey’s war against the pirates
Pompey’s war against the pirates was a swift and decisive Roman naval campaign in 67 BC in which Pompey the Great cleared the Mediterranean of piracy, greatly enhancing his military prestige and Rome’s control over maritime trade.
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C.
Sextus Pompeius
Sextus Pompeius was a Roman military leader and the youngest son of Pompey the Great, known for commanding a powerful naval force against the Second Triumvirate during the late Roman Republic.
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D.
Sextus
Sextus is the praenomen (first name) of the Roman elegiac poet Propertius, active during the Augustan age.
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E.
Miek (as gladiator)
Miek (as gladiator) is an insectoid warrior from Sakaar in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who fights in the Grandmaster’s Contest of Champions alongside other arena combatants like Thor and Korg.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Menas (or Menodorus), a pirate in the service of Sextus Pompey Target entity description: Menas, also known as Menodorus, was a notable 1st-century BC pirate and naval commander who served Sextus Pompey during the Roman civil wars, playing a key role in maritime operations against the Second Triumvirate.
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A.
Cilician pirates
The Cilician pirates were a powerful confederation of seafaring raiders in the eastern Mediterranean during the late Roman Republic, notorious for large-scale piracy, kidnapping, and disruption of trade until their suppression by Pompey in the 1st century BCE.
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B.
Pompey’s war against the pirates
Pompey’s war against the pirates was a swift and decisive Roman naval campaign in 67 BC in which Pompey the Great cleared the Mediterranean of piracy, greatly enhancing his military prestige and Rome’s control over maritime trade.
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C.
Sextus Pompeius
Sextus Pompeius was a Roman military leader and the youngest son of Pompey the Great, known for commanding a powerful naval force against the Second Triumvirate during the late Roman Republic.
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D.
Sextus
Sextus is the praenomen (first name) of the Roman elegiac poet Propertius, active during the Augustan age.
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E.
Miek (as gladiator)
Miek (as gladiator) is an insectoid warrior from Sakaar in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who fights in the Grandmaster’s Contest of Champions alongside other arena combatants like Thor and Korg.
- F. None of above. chosen
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