Spartacus
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Spartacus is a historical Thracian gladiator who led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic and has since become a symbol of resistance and freedom in popular culture.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spartacus canonical | 47 |
| Spartacus narrative | 1 |
| Spartacus' rebel army | 1 |
| Spartacus’ rebel army | 1 |
| Thracian gladiator Spartacus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4722166 — 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)
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Target entity: Spartacus Context triple: [Spartacus: War of the Damned, partOf, Spartacus]
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Spartacus
Spartacus is a famous ballet, with music by Aram Khachaturian, that dramatizes the slave revolt led by the Thracian gladiator Spartacus against ancient Rome.
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Spartacus: Blood and Sand is a stylized, graphic historical drama television series that follows the rise of the gladiator Spartacus in ancient Rome.
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Spartacus (1960 film)
Spartacus (1960 film) is an epic historical drama directed by Stanley Kubrick that chronicles a slave-led revolt against the Roman Republic, renowned for its grand scale, political themes, and iconic performances.
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Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is a prequel television miniseries in the Spartacus franchise that explores the rise of the House of Batiatus and the brutal gladiatorial world before Spartacus’s arrival.
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Spartacus: Vengeance
Spartacus: Vengeance is the second season of the Starz historical action-drama series following the gladiator Spartacus as he leads a growing slave rebellion against the Roman Republic.
- 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: Spartacus Target entity description: Spartacus is a historical Thracian gladiator who led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic and has since become a symbol of resistance and freedom in popular culture.
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A.
Spartacus
Spartacus is a famous ballet, with music by Aram Khachaturian, that dramatizes the slave revolt led by the Thracian gladiator Spartacus against ancient Rome.
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B.
Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Spartacus: Blood and Sand is a stylized, graphic historical drama television series that follows the rise of the gladiator Spartacus in ancient Rome.
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C.
Spartacus (1960 film)
Spartacus (1960 film) is an epic historical drama directed by Stanley Kubrick that chronicles a slave-led revolt against the Roman Republic, renowned for its grand scale, political themes, and iconic performances.
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D.
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is a prequel television miniseries in the Spartacus franchise that explores the rise of the House of Batiatus and the brutal gladiatorial world before Spartacus’s arrival.
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E.
Spartacus: Vengeance
Spartacus: Vengeance is the second season of the Starz historical action-drama series following the gladiator Spartacus as he leads a growing slave rebellion against the Roman Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gladiator
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historical figure ⓘ rebel leader ⓘ slave ⓘ |
| activeYears | 73–71 BCE ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman gladiatorial games
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linked to:
Gladiators
anti-slavery movements ⓘ class struggle ⓘ slave revolts ⓘ |
| commanded | multi-ethnic rebel forces ⓘ |
| conflict | Third Servile War ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
iconic figure of class struggle
ⓘ
inspiration for political movements and organizations ⓘ |
| enemyCommander |
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
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linked to:
Pompey the Great
Marcus Licinius Crassus ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Thracian ⓘ |
| hasRepresentationIn |
ballet
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comics ⓘ film ⓘ literature ⓘ opera ⓘ television ⓘ theatre ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| historicalSource |
Appian
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Florus ⓘ Plutarch ⓘ |
| influenced | later revolutionary movements in popular imagination ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| leaderOf | Third Servile War ⓘ |
| led | slave army ⓘ |
| legacy |
enduring symbol of defiance against oppression
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subject of extensive scholarly debate ⓘ |
| nameUsedBy |
left-wing organizations
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political groups ⓘ trade unions ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| occupation | gladiator ⓘ |
| opponent | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| originOfName | Thracian onomastics ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Italy ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
champion of the oppressed
ⓘ
heroic rebel in popular culture ⓘ |
| socialStatus | slave ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
freedom
ⓘ
rebellion ⓘ resistance ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century BCE ⓘ |
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: Spartacus Description of subject: Spartacus is a historical Thracian gladiator who led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic and has since become a symbol of resistance and freedom in popular culture.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
The Winston Affair
subject linked to:
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linked to: Spartacus