Spartacus (Phrygia)
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Spartacus (Phrygia) is a Soviet-era ballet, famously performed by ballerina Ekaterina Maximova, that dramatizes the story of the Thracian gladiator Spartacus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spartacus (Phrygia) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11716582 — 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: Spartacus (Phrygia) Context triple: [Ekaterina Maximova, notableWork, Spartacus (Phrygia)]
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Pantikapaion
Pantikapaion is an ancient Greek city on the eastern Crimean Peninsula, historically a major center of the Bosporan Kingdom.
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B.
Arses
Arses, better known by his regnal name Artaxerxes II, was a king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire who ruled in the 4th century BCE.
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C.
Arses
Arses is a genus of small insectivorous birds in the monarch flycatcher family, native to Australasia and nearby regions.
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D.
Messala
Messala is the ambitious and ruthless Roman antagonist in the 1925 silent film adaptation of "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ," whose betrayal of his childhood friend Judah Ben-Hur drives the central conflict.
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E.
Mithridates VI Eupator
Mithridates VI Eupator was a powerful 1st-century BCE king of Pontus, famed for his fierce resistance to Roman expansion in the Mithridatic Wars and his legendary experiments with poisons and antidotes.
- 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 (Phrygia) Target entity description: Spartacus (Phrygia) is a Soviet-era ballet, famously performed by ballerina Ekaterina Maximova, that dramatizes the story of the Thracian gladiator Spartacus.
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A.
Pantikapaion
Pantikapaion is an ancient Greek city on the eastern Crimean Peninsula, historically a major center of the Bosporan Kingdom.
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B.
Arses
Arses, better known by his regnal name Artaxerxes II, was a king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire who ruled in the 4th century BCE.
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C.
Arses
Arses is a genus of small insectivorous birds in the monarch flycatcher family, native to Australasia and nearby regions.
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D.
Messala
Messala is the ambitious and ruthless Roman antagonist in the 1925 silent film adaptation of "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ," whose betrayal of his childhood friend Judah Ben-Hur drives the central conflict.
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E.
Mithridates VI Eupator
Mithridates VI Eupator was a powerful 1st-century BCE king of Pontus, famed for his fierce resistance to Roman expansion in the Mithridatic Wars and his legendary experiments with poisons and antidotes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet
ⓘ
stage work ⓘ |
| about |
Thracian gladiator Spartacus
ⓘ
gladiators ⓘ |
| artForm | ballet ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Spartacus
ⓘ
story of the Thracian gladiator Spartacus ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Soviet performing arts ⓘ |
| era | Soviet era ⓘ |
| genre | classical ballet ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Ancient Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
oppression and liberation
ⓘ
rebellion against Rome ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Spartacus ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | ballet company ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
fight for freedom
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heroism ⓘ slave revolt ⓘ |
| notableAspect | dramatic portrayal of Spartacus’s uprising ⓘ |
| notableCharacter | Spartacus ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | Ekaterina Maximova ⓘ |
| performingArtsGenre | dramatic ballet ⓘ |
| productionType | theatrical dance work ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Spartacus (Phrygia) Description of subject: Spartacus (Phrygia) is a Soviet-era ballet, famously performed by ballerina Ekaterina Maximova, that dramatizes the story of the Thracian gladiator Spartacus.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.