Spartacus
E269982
Spartacus is a famous ballet, with music by Aram Khachaturian, that dramatizes the slave revolt led by the Thracian gladiator Spartacus against ancient Rome.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spartacus canonical | 5 |
| Phrygia in Spartacus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2465977 — 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 Context triple: [Bolshoi Ballet, notableProduction, Spartacus]
-
A.
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.
-
B.
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.
-
C.
Gladiator
Gladiator is an epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott that follows a betrayed Roman general who seeks vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
-
D.
Barabbas
Barabbas is a figure in the New Testament Gospels who was imprisoned for insurrection and released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus at the crowd’s demand.
-
E.
Spartacus: War of the Damned
Spartacus: War of the Damned is the third and final season of the historical action-drama television series "Spartacus," depicting the climactic phase of the 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 famous ballet, with music by Aram Khachaturian, that dramatizes the slave revolt led by the Thracian gladiator Spartacus against ancient Rome.
-
A.
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.
-
B.
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.
-
C.
Gladiator
Gladiator is an epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott that follows a betrayed Roman general who seeks vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
-
D.
Barabbas
Barabbas is a figure in the New Testament Gospels who was imprisoned for insurrection and released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus at the crowd’s demand.
-
E.
Spartacus: War of the Damned
Spartacus: War of the Damned is the third and final season of the historical action-drama television series "Spartacus," depicting the climactic phase of the slave rebellion against the Roman Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet
ⓘ
stage work ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Spartacus
ⓘ
Third Servile War ⓘ |
| characterOrigin | Thrace ⓘ |
| composer | Aram Khachaturian ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| form | full-length ballet ⓘ |
| genre | ballet ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
freedom
ⓘ
heroism ⓘ love ⓘ oppression ⓘ rebellion ⓘ |
| hasTitleInRussian | Спартак ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
historical figure Spartacus
ⓘ
slave revolt against Rome ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general public ⓘ |
| intendedMedium | theatre ⓘ |
| language | none (wordless ballet) ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Aegina
ⓘ
Crassus ⓘ
linked to:
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Phrygia ⓘ Spartacus ⓘ |
| movementType | classical ballet choreography ⓘ |
| musicalStyle |
20th-century classical music
ⓘ
romantic nationalism ⓘ |
| notableExcerpt | Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dramatic depiction of slave revolt
ⓘ
expressive orchestral score ⓘ popular Adagio theme ⓘ |
| orchestration | large symphony orchestra ⓘ |
| originallyPremieredIn | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| portrays |
Roman military power
ⓘ
gladiatorial life ⓘ slave uprising ⓘ |
| setting |
Roman Republic
ⓘ
ancient Rome ⓘ |
| structure | four acts ⓘ |
| style | Soviet ballet ⓘ |
| subject |
Thracian gladiator Spartacus
ⓘ
linked to:
Spartacus
ancient Rome ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
slave revolt against ancient Rome ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| workTitleLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
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 famous ballet, with music by Aram Khachaturian, that dramatizes the slave revolt led by the Thracian gladiator Spartacus against ancient Rome.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Spartacus