Aulularia
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Aulularia is an ancient Roman comedy by Plautus, best known for its plot about a miser and his hidden pot of gold, which later inspired works like Molière’s "The Miser."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aulularia canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138892 — 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: Aulularia Context triple: [Plautus, notableWork, Aulularia]
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A.
Aetia
Aetia is a major didactic and elegiac poem by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus that explores the origins and myths behind various customs, cities, and religious practices in the Greek world.
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B.
Pandosto
Pandosto is a 1588 prose romance by Robert Greene that famously served as the primary source for Shakespeare’s play "The Winter’s Tale."
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C.
Column of the Goddess
The Column of the Goddess is a prominent monument in Lille, France, commemorating the city's resistance during the 1792 Siege of Lille and serving as an emblematic symbol of the city.
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D.
Les Écuries d’Augias
Les Écuries d’Augias is a poetic work by French writer and first Nobel laureate in Literature René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme, reflecting his characteristic philosophical and reflective style.
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E.
Peristerai
Peristerai is one of the smaller Greek islets in the Echinades group, located in the Ionian Sea off western Greece.
- 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: Aulularia Target entity description: Aulularia is an ancient Roman comedy by Plautus, best known for its plot about a miser and his hidden pot of gold, which later inspired works like Molière’s "The Miser."
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A.
Aetia
Aetia is a major didactic and elegiac poem by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus that explores the origins and myths behind various customs, cities, and religious practices in the Greek world.
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B.
Pandosto
Pandosto is a 1588 prose romance by Robert Greene that famously served as the primary source for Shakespeare’s play "The Winter’s Tale."
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C.
Column of the Goddess
The Column of the Goddess is a prominent monument in Lille, France, commemorating the city's resistance during the 1792 Siege of Lille and serving as an emblematic symbol of the city.
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D.
Les Écuries d’Augias
Les Écuries d’Augias is a poetic work by French writer and first Nobel laureate in Literature René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme, reflecting his characteristic philosophical and reflective style.
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E.
Peristerai
Peristerai is one of the smaller Greek islets in the Echinades group, located in the Ionian Sea off western Greece.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin play
ⓘ
ancient Roman comedy ⓘ |
| alternateEnglishTitle |
The Pot of Gold
ⓘ
linked to:
Pot of Gold
|
| approximateDate | early 2nd century BCE ⓘ |
| author | Plautus ⓘ |
| basedOn | lost Greek model ⓘ |
| centralObject | hidden pot of gold ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
fear of loss
ⓘ
greed ⓘ miserliness ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
marriage negotiations
ⓘ
misers and hidden treasure ⓘ suspicion and paranoia ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | Roman ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Euclio
ⓘ
Megadorus ⓘ Phaedria ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
clever slave or servant figures
ⓘ
miser stock character ⓘ |
| hasMissingPortions |
ending
ⓘ
parts of later acts ⓘ |
| hasModernAdaptation |
television and radio adaptations
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various stage adaptations ⓘ |
| hasScholarlyDebateOn |
extent of Greek source material
ⓘ
reconstruction of missing ending ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class and wealth
ⓘ
family relations ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| influenced |
European comedy of manners
ⓘ
later depictions of misers in European literature ⓘ |
| inspiredAuthor | Molière ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
The Miser
ⓘ
linked to:
L’Avare
|
| isTaughtAlongside | other plays of Plautus ⓘ |
| literaryForm | fabula palliata ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| meter | various Roman comic meters ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| partOf |
Plautine corpus
ⓘ
linked to:
Plautus
|
| preservedIn | medieval manuscripts ⓘ |
| setting | Athens ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Latin literature courses
ⓘ
classical philology ⓘ |
| textualState | partially preserved ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | The Little Pot ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Aulularia Description of subject: Aulularia is an ancient Roman comedy by Plautus, best known for its plot about a miser and his hidden pot of gold, which later inspired works like Molière’s "The Miser."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.