The Arbitration
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The Arbitration is the conventional English title of Menander’s ancient Greek comedy "Epitrepontes," a play centered on family conflict and legal dispute.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Arbitration canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138764 — 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: The Arbitration Context triple: [Epitrepontes, titleTranslation, The Arbitration]
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A.
The Appeal
The Appeal is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that explores corporate corruption and the manipulation of the judicial system through a high-stakes Mississippi court case.
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B.
The Litigators
The Litigators is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a small, struggling law firm drawn into a high-stakes mass tort lawsuit.
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C.
The Courtroom
The Courtroom is a critically acclaimed documentary-style play that dramatizes real deportation proceedings using verbatim court transcripts to explore the U.S. immigration system.
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D.
The Settlement
The Settlement is the main inhabited village of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, the remote capital of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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E.
The Decision
"The Decision" is a didactic play by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht that explores revolutionary ethics and communist ideology through the story of agitators sent to support a workers’ movement.
- 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: The Arbitration Target entity description: The Arbitration is the conventional English title of Menander’s ancient Greek comedy "Epitrepontes," a play centered on family conflict and legal dispute.
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A.
The Appeal
The Appeal is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that explores corporate corruption and the manipulation of the judicial system through a high-stakes Mississippi court case.
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B.
The Litigators
The Litigators is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a small, struggling law firm drawn into a high-stakes mass tort lawsuit.
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C.
The Courtroom
The Courtroom is a critically acclaimed documentary-style play that dramatizes real deportation proceedings using verbatim court transcripts to explore the U.S. immigration system.
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D.
The Settlement
The Settlement is the main inhabited village of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, the remote capital of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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E.
The Decision
"The Decision" is a didactic play by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht that explores revolutionary ethics and communist ideology through the story of agitators sent to support a workers’ movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek comedy
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ |
| associatedWith | papyrological discoveries in Egypt ⓘ |
| author | Menander ⓘ |
| centuryOfComposition |
3rd century BC
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4th century BC ⓘ |
| conventionalEnglishTitleOf | Epitrepontes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Greece
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linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| discoveredIn |
Oxyrhynchus papyri
ⓘ
linked to:
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
|
| featuresCharacter |
Charisios
ⓘ
Habrotonon ⓘ Onesimos ⓘ Pamphile ⓘ Smikrines ⓘ |
| genre | New Comedy ⓘ |
| hasForm | five-act structure ⓘ |
| hasModernTitleVariant | The Arbitration (Epitrepontes) ⓘ |
| hasMoralFocus |
reconciliation within marriage
ⓘ
social legitimacy of children ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
marriage law in classical Athens
ⓘ
slavery and social mobility ⓘ status of women in ancient Greece ⓘ |
| influenced | later Roman comedy ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Greek New Comedy
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linked to:
New Comedy
|
| literaryTradition |
Athenian New Comedy
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linked to:
New Comedy
|
| mainTheme |
family conflict
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identity recognition ⓘ legal dispute ⓘ marital reconciliation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Epitrepontes ⓘ |
| playwright | Menander ⓘ |
| plotElement |
disputed parentage of a child
ⓘ
recognition through tokens of identity ⓘ use of an arbitration panel to resolve a dispute ⓘ |
| setting | Athens ⓘ |
| survivingStatus |
partially fragmentary
ⓘ
substantially extant ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | Hellenistic era ⓘ |
| usesDramaticDevice |
eavesdropping
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misunderstanding ⓘ recognition scene ⓘ |
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