Trojan Women (Euripides)
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Trojan Women is a tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and despair of the women of Troy in the aftermath of the city's destruction in the Trojan War.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Trojan Women | 10 |
| Trojan Women | 3 |
| Euripides' Trojan Women | 1 |
| Euripides’ Trojan Women | 1 |
| The Trojan Women (1971 film) | 1 |
| The Trojan Women (various stage adaptations) | 1 |
| Trojan Women (Euripides) canonical | 1 |
| Trojan women | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T870177 — 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: Trojan Women (Euripides) Context triple: [Odysseus, literaryWork, Trojan Women (Euripides)]
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A.
Hecuba (Euripides)
Hecuba (Euripides) is a Greek tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and vengeance of the Trojan queen Hecuba after the fall of Troy.
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B.
Philoctetes (Sophocles)
Philoctetes (Sophocles) is a classical Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes the moral and psychological conflict surrounding the marooned archer Philoctetes during the final phase of the Trojan War.
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C.
Agamemnon
Agamemnon is the legendary king of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War in Greek mythology.
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D.
Bacchae
Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the devastating consequences of resisting his cult.
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E.
Sons of Pericles
Sons of Pericles is a junior auxiliary organization of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association that promotes Hellenic heritage, civic responsibility, and leadership among young men.
- 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: Trojan Women (Euripides) Target entity description: Trojan Women is a tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and despair of the women of Troy in the aftermath of the city's destruction in the Trojan War.
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A.
Hecuba (Euripides)
Hecuba (Euripides) is a Greek tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and vengeance of the Trojan queen Hecuba after the fall of Troy.
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B.
Philoctetes (Sophocles)
Philoctetes (Sophocles) is a classical Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes the moral and psychological conflict surrounding the marooned archer Philoctetes during the final phase of the Trojan War.
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C.
Agamemnon
Agamemnon is the legendary king of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War in Greek mythology.
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D.
Bacchae
Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the devastating consequences of resisting his cult.
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E.
Sons of Pericles
Sons of Pericles is a junior auxiliary organization of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association that promotes Hellenic heritage, civic responsibility, and leadership among young men.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek tragedy
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play ⓘ |
| associatedWithWar | Trojan War ⓘ |
| author | Euripides ⓘ |
| basedOn | mythological cycle of the Trojan War ⓘ |
| centralCharacter | Hecuba ⓘ |
| chorus | Trojan women captives ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| depictsEvent |
division of Trojan captives among Greek leaders
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enslavement of Trojan women ⓘ murder of Astyanax ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Andromache (Euripides)
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surface form:
Andromache
Athena ⓘ Cassandra ⓘ Hecuba ⓘ Helen ⓘ Menelaus ⓘ Poseidon ⓘ Talthybius ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceContext |
City Dionysia
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surface form:
City Dionysia festival
|
| firstPerformancePlace | Athens ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceYear | 415 BC ⓘ |
| genre | tragedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Trojan Women (Euripides)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Trojan Women (1971 film)
Trojan Women (Euripides) self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Trojan Women (various stage adaptations)
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| hasInfluenced |
feminist interpretations of classical tragedy
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modern anti-war drama ⓘ |
| literaryForm | verse drama ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Classical Greek literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
critique of war and imperialism
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fate and powerlessness ⓘ misery of enslaved women ⓘ suffering of war victims ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | aftermath of war rather than battles ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Τρῳάδες ⓘ |
| partOf | tetralogy with Alexander, Palamedes, and Sisyphus ⓘ |
| prologueSpeakers |
Athena
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Poseidon ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Andromache (Euripides)
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Hecuba (Euripides) ⓘ Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
surface form:
The Aeneid
Homer's Iliad ⓘ
surface form:
The Iliad
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| setting |
after the fall of Troy
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ruins of Troy ⓘ |
| survivingStatus | extant complete play by Euripides ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | mythical age of heroes ⓘ |
| title |
Trojan Women (Euripides)
self-link
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surface form:
Trojan Women
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Trojan Women (Euripides) Description of subject: Trojan Women is a tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and despair of the women of Troy in the aftermath of the city's destruction in the Trojan War.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
Euripides’ Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
Trojan Women
subject surface form:
Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
Trojan Women
subject surface form:
Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women (1971 film)
subject surface form:
Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women (various stage adaptations)
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women
subject surface form:
Andromache (play)
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
The Trojan Women
this entity surface form:
Euripides' Trojan Women