Cilician pirates
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cilician pirates canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13606739 — 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: Cilician pirates Context triple: [Olympos, associatedWith, Cilician pirates]
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A.
Scetes
Scetes is an early Christian monastic center in the Egyptian desert, renowned as one of the principal settlements of the Desert Fathers.
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B.
Barbary corsairs
The Barbary corsairs were North African privateers and pirates, primarily from the Ottoman regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, who raided European shipping and coastal settlements in the Mediterranean and Atlantic from the 16th to 19th centuries.
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C.
Isaurian insurgents
The Isaurian insurgents were rebellious mountain tribes from the Isauria region of Asia Minor who resisted Roman and later Byzantine imperial authority through persistent guerrilla warfare.
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D.
Pisidians
The Pisidians were an ancient people of southwestern Anatolia known for their fiercely independent, warlike mountain communities and resistance to outside rule, including that of the Persian and later Hellenistic and Roman empires.
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E.
Sea Beggars
The Sea Beggars were Dutch Calvinist privateers and rebels who fought against Spanish rule during the Eighty Years' War, playing a key role in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt.
- 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: Cilician pirates Target entity description: 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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A.
Scetes
Scetes is an early Christian monastic center in the Egyptian desert, renowned as one of the principal settlements of the Desert Fathers.
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B.
Barbary corsairs
The Barbary corsairs were North African privateers and pirates, primarily from the Ottoman regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, who raided European shipping and coastal settlements in the Mediterranean and Atlantic from the 16th to 19th centuries.
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C.
Isaurian insurgents
The Isaurian insurgents were rebellious mountain tribes from the Isauria region of Asia Minor who resisted Roman and later Byzantine imperial authority through persistent guerrilla warfare.
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D.
Pisidians
The Pisidians were an ancient people of southwestern Anatolia known for their fiercely independent, warlike mountain communities and resistance to outside rule, including that of the Persian and later Hellenistic and Roman empires.
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E.
Sea Beggars
The Sea Beggars were Dutch Calvinist privateers and rebels who fought against Spanish rule during the Eighty Years' War, playing a key role in the early stages of the Dutch Revolt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.