Batiatus
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Batiatus is a cunning and ambitious Roman lanista and gladiator school owner in the television series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Batiatus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4292346 — 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: Batiatus Context triple: [Spartacus: Blood and Sand, featuresCharacter, Batiatus]
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A.
Flaminio
Flaminio is a central district of Rome known for its cultural institutions, modern architecture, and proximity to the Tiber River and major city landmarks.
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B.
Menippus
Menippus was an ancient Cynic philosopher and satirist, best known for pioneering the mixed prose-and-verse satirical genre later called Menippean satire.
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C.
Antonino
Antonino is the Italian given name of actor Giovanni Ribisi, whose full name is Antonino Giovanni Ribisi.
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D.
Sabbatius
Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
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E.
Lúcio
Lúcio is a Brazilian architect and urban planner best known as the principal designer of Brasília, the country’s modernist capital city.
- 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: Batiatus Target entity description: Batiatus is a cunning and ambitious Roman lanista and gladiator school owner in the television series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand."
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A.
Flaminio
Flaminio is a central district of Rome known for its cultural institutions, modern architecture, and proximity to the Tiber River and major city landmarks.
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B.
Menippus
Menippus was an ancient Cynic philosopher and satirist, best known for pioneering the mixed prose-and-verse satirical genre later called Menippean satire.
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C.
Antonino
Antonino is the Italian given name of actor Giovanni Ribisi, whose full name is Antonino Giovanni Ribisi.
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D.
Sabbatius
Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
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E.
Lúcio
Lúcio is a Brazilian architect and urban planner best known as the principal designer of Brasília, the country’s modernist capital city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman citizen
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ lanista ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| ally |
Ashur
NERFINISHED
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Ilithyia NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucretia NERFINISHED ⓘ Quintus Lentulus Batiatus' father ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Spartacus: Blood and Sand
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
calculating
ⓘ
charismatic ⓘ manipulative ⓘ |
| controls | ludus in Capua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Steven S. DeKnight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathLocation | House of Batiatus in Capua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | House of Batiatus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemy |
Asher
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crixus NERFINISHED ⓘ Spartacus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Batiatus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Spartacus television series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalAppearance | Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Episode 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Season 1 Episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Quintus Lentulus Batiatus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal |
to elevate the status of his house
ⓘ
to gain political power in Roman society ⓘ |
| house | House of Batiatus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Spartacus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin (depicted) ⓘ |
| nationality | Roman ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | Starz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambition
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cunning ⓘ ruthlessness ⓘ |
| occupation |
gladiator school owner
ⓘ
lanista ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Hannah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Capua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Lucretia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| student |
Crixus
NERFINISHED
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Doctore (Oenomaus) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gannicus NERFINISHED ⓘ Spartacus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses | gladiatorial games for political advancement ⓘ |
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: Batiatus Description of subject: Batiatus is a cunning and ambitious Roman lanista and gladiator school owner in the television series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.