Sphakteria
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Sphakteria is a small Greek island off the coast of Pylos in the Peloponnese, historically significant as the site of a major battle during the Peloponnesian War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sphakteria canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13385958 — 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: Sphakteria Context triple: [Sphacteria, ancientName, Sphakteria]
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A.
Carneia
Carneia was an important ancient Spartan and Dorian festival in honor of Apollo, marked by rituals, music, and athletic contests that reflected both military and agricultural aspects of the community.
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B.
Pisidice
Pisidice is a minor figure in Greek mythology, traditionally listed among the children of Aeolus and thus part of the extended royal lineage of early Greek heroic legends.
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C.
Pisidice
Pisidice is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as one of the daughters of Nestor, the wise king of Pylos.
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D.
Achilla
Achilla is a military commander and antagonist in George Frideric Handel’s Baroque opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto."
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E.
Phigaleia
Phigaleia is an ancient town in southwestern Arcadia, Greece, known for its historical significance and nearby classical ruins.
- 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: Sphakteria Target entity description: Sphakteria is a small Greek island off the coast of Pylos in the Peloponnese, historically significant as the site of a major battle during the Peloponnesian War.
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A.
Carneia
Carneia was an important ancient Spartan and Dorian festival in honor of Apollo, marked by rituals, music, and athletic contests that reflected both military and agricultural aspects of the community.
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B.
Pisidice
Pisidice is a minor figure in Greek mythology, traditionally listed among the children of Aeolus and thus part of the extended royal lineage of early Greek heroic legends.
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C.
Pisidice
Pisidice is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as one of the daughters of Nestor, the wise king of Pylos.
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D.
Achilla
Achilla is a military commander and antagonist in George Frideric Handel’s Baroque opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto."
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E.
Phigaleia
Phigaleia is an ancient town in southwestern Arcadia, Greece, known for its historical significance and nearby classical ruins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek island
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island ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brasidas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cleon NERFINISHED ⓘ Demosthenes (Athenian general) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battleDate | 425 BC ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Hellenic Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captured | Spartan hoplites ⓘ |
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| eraOfMainHistoricalImportance | Classical Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAncientName | Sphacteria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
elongated shape
ⓘ
forms natural harbor at Pylos ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
Battle of Sphacteria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peloponnesian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyHistoricalEvent | Battle of Navarino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyHistoricalSite | Navarino Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyIsland | Sfaktiria islets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown | Pylos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasType | uninhabited or sparsely inhabited island ⓘ |
| involvedBelligerent |
Athens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sparta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | historical region of Messenia ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bay of Pylos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ionian Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Messenia NERFINISHED ⓘ Peloponnese ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Pylos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf | southwestern Peloponnese ⓘ |
| mentionedInWork | Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modernName | Sfaktiria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Periphery of Peloponnese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
regional unit of Messenia ⓘ |
| protects | harbor of Pylos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| resultOfBattle | Athenian victory ⓘ |
| separates |
Bay of Pylos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
open sea ⓘ |
| timeOfMajorEvent | Archidamian War phase of Peloponnesian War ⓘ |
| usedAs | Athenian bargaining chip against Sparta ⓘ |
| wasSiteOf | Battle of Sphacteria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sphakteria Description of subject: Sphakteria is a small Greek island off the coast of Pylos in the Peloponnese, historically significant as the site of a major battle during the Peloponnesian War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sphacteria