Third Servile War
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The Third Servile War was a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic (73–71 BCE), led by the gladiator Spartacus and ultimately crushed by Roman forces under Marcus Licinius Crassus.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Third Servile War canonical | 7 |
| Servile Wars | 2 |
| Spartacus slave revolt | 2 |
| Spartacus Revolt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1679158 — 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: Third Servile War Context triple: [Spartacus (1960 film), subject, Third Servile War]
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A.
Great Illyrian Revolt
The Great Illyrian Revolt was a major uprising of Illyrian tribes against Roman rule in the early 1st century AD that posed one of the most serious military challenges to the Roman Empire in the Balkans.
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B.
Roman civil wars
The Roman civil wars were a series of internal conflicts during the late Roman Republic in which rival political and military leaders, culminating in the struggle between Octavian and Mark Antony, fought for supreme control of Rome and ultimately paved the way for the Roman Empire.
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C.
Batavian revolt
The Batavian revolt was a 1st-century AD uprising of the Batavi tribe against Roman rule along the Rhine frontier, led by Julius Civilis during the Year of the Four Emperors.
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D.
Hasmonean civil war
The Hasmonean civil war was an internal conflict in the late Hasmonean Kingdom of Judea in which rival royal family members fought for the throne, ultimately paving the way for Roman intervention and domination.
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E.
Roman–Parthian War of 161–166
The Roman–Parthian War of 161–166 was a major conflict between the Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, marked by Roman campaigns in Armenia and Mesopotamia that temporarily expanded Roman influence in the East.
- 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: Third Servile War Target entity description: The Third Servile War was a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic (73–71 BCE), led by the gladiator Spartacus and ultimately crushed by Roman forces under Marcus Licinius Crassus.
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A.
Great Illyrian Revolt
The Great Illyrian Revolt was a major uprising of Illyrian tribes against Roman rule in the early 1st century AD that posed one of the most serious military challenges to the Roman Empire in the Balkans.
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B.
Roman civil wars
The Roman civil wars were a series of internal conflicts during the late Roman Republic in which rival political and military leaders, culminating in the struggle between Octavian and Mark Antony, fought for supreme control of Rome and ultimately paved the way for the Roman Empire.
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C.
Batavian revolt
The Batavian revolt was a 1st-century AD uprising of the Batavi tribe against Roman rule along the Rhine frontier, led by Julius Civilis during the Year of the Four Emperors.
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D.
Hasmonean civil war
The Hasmonean civil war was an internal conflict in the late Hasmonean Kingdom of Judea in which rival royal family members fought for the throne, ultimately paving the way for Roman intervention and domination.
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E.
Roman–Parthian War of 161–166
The Roman–Parthian War of 161–166 was a major conflict between the Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, marked by Roman campaigns in Armenia and Mesopotamia that temporarily expanded Roman influence in the East.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Third Servile War Description of subject: The Third Servile War was a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic (73–71 BCE), led by the gladiator Spartacus and ultimately crushed by Roman forces under Marcus Licinius Crassus.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Spartacus slave revolt
this entity surface form:
Spartacus Revolt
this entity surface form:
Servile Wars
this entity surface form:
Servile Wars
subject surface form:
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
this entity surface form:
Spartacus slave revolt