Medea and Her Children
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Medea and Her Children is a novel by Russian author Lyudmila Ulitskaya that portrays the complex dynamics of a Crimean Greek family through the life of its strong-willed matriarch, Medea.
All labels observed (1)
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| Medea and Her Children canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21297585 — 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: Medea and Her Children Context triple: [Lyudmila Ulitskaya, notableWork, Medea and Her Children]
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Medea
Medea is a mythological figure from Greek tragedy, best known as a powerful sorceress who kills her own children to avenge her husband Jason’s betrayal.
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The Women of Trachis
The Women of Trachis is an ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes the tragic fate of Heracles and his wife Deianeira, exploring themes of love, jealousy, and unintended destruction.
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L’Egisto
L’Egisto is a 17th-century Italian opera by Francesco Cavalli, known for its expressive early Baroque style and mythological subject matter.
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D.
Children of Medea
The Children of Medea are the mythological offspring of the sorceress Medea and the hero Jason, whose tragic deaths are central to Euripides’ play "Medea."
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E.
Phoenician Women
Phoenician Women is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes the conflict between the sons of Oedipus during the war of the Seven against Thebes.
- 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: Medea and Her Children Target entity description: Medea and Her Children is a novel by Russian author Lyudmila Ulitskaya that portrays the complex dynamics of a Crimean Greek family through the life of its strong-willed matriarch, Medea.
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A.
Medea
Medea is a mythological figure from Greek tragedy, best known as a powerful sorceress who kills her own children to avenge her husband Jason’s betrayal.
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B.
The Women of Trachis
The Women of Trachis is an ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes the tragic fate of Heracles and his wife Deianeira, exploring themes of love, jealousy, and unintended destruction.
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C.
L’Egisto
L’Egisto is a 17th-century Italian opera by Francesco Cavalli, known for its expressive early Baroque style and mythological subject matter.
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D.
Children of Medea
The Children of Medea are the mythological offspring of the sorceress Medea and the hero Jason, whose tragic deaths are central to Euripides’ play "Medea."
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E.
Phoenician Women
Phoenician Women is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes the conflict between the sons of Oedipus during the war of the Seven against Thebes.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.