Aspis
E226927
Aspis is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Menander, known for its exploration of family, inheritance, and social customs in Athenian society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aspis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2029882 — 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: Aspis Context triple: [Menander, notableWork, Aspis]
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A.
Spartiate
Spartiate was a 74-gun French ship of the line captured by the British at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and subsequently commissioned into the Royal Navy.
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B.
Aegis
Aegis is a distributed, capability-based operating system developed at MIT in the 1980s, known for its fine-grained security model and use in the Apollo/Domain workstation environment.
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C.
Shield of Heracles
Shield of Heracles is an ancient Greek epic poem traditionally attributed to Hesiod that vividly describes the ornate shield and heroic exploits of the demigod Heracles.
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D.
Scillus
Scillus was an ancient town in Elis, Greece, notable as the place where the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon lived in exile and wrote some of his works.
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E.
Rostra
The Rostra was the main speakers' platform in ancient Rome, from which magistrates and orators addressed crowds in the Roman Forum.
- 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: Aspis Target entity description: Aspis is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Menander, known for its exploration of family, inheritance, and social customs in Athenian society.
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A.
Spartiate
Spartiate was a 74-gun French ship of the line captured by the British at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and subsequently commissioned into the Royal Navy.
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B.
Aegis
Aegis is a distributed, capability-based operating system developed at MIT in the 1980s, known for its fine-grained security model and use in the Apollo/Domain workstation environment.
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C.
Shield of Heracles
Shield of Heracles is an ancient Greek epic poem traditionally attributed to Hesiod that vividly describes the ornate shield and heroic exploits of the demigod Heracles.
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D.
Scillus
Scillus was an ancient town in Elis, Greece, notable as the place where the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon lived in exile and wrote some of his works.
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E.
Rostra
The Rostra was the main speakers' platform in ancient Rome, from which magistrates and orators addressed crowds in the Roman Forum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek comedy
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play ⓘ |
| author | Menander ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| culturalContext | Athenian law and customs ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | comedy ⓘ |
| dramaticStructure | five-act structure ⓘ |
| englishTitle | The Shield ⓘ |
| features |
focus on domestic life
ⓘ
legal and inheritance issues ⓘ stock characters typical of New Comedy ⓘ |
| genre | New Comedy ⓘ |
| influenced |
European neoclassical comedy
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later Roman comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
depiction of everyday Athenian life
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exploration of family and inheritance disputes ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
family
ⓘ
inheritance ⓘ social customs ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | corpus of Menander’s comedies ⓘ |
| setting | Athenian society ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
classical philology
ⓘ
classical reception studies ⓘ theatre studies ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | partially extant ⓘ |
| textualTransmission |
medieval manuscript tradition
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papyrus fragments ⓘ |
| titleInGreek | Ἀσπίς ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Aspis Description of subject: Aspis is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Menander, known for its exploration of family, inheritance, and social customs in Athenian society.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.