Mostellaria
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Mostellaria is a comedic Roman play by Plautus, best known for its farcical plot involving a clever slave, a duped father, and a supposedly haunted house.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mostellaria canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138895 — 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: Mostellaria Context triple: [Plautus, notableWork, Mostellaria]
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A.
Antiquarium
The Antiquarium is a grand Renaissance hall in the Munich Residenz, renowned as one of the largest and most impressive secular Renaissance interiors in northern Europe, originally built to display the Bavarian dukes’ collection of antique sculptures.
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B.
Sacrofano
Sacrofano is a small historic town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its medieval center and proximity to the natural and archaeological landscapes north of Rome.
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C.
Mamunia
Mamunia is a melodic, reflective song by Paul McCartney and Wings from their 1973 album "Band on the Run."
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D.
Hall of Antiquity
Hall of Antiquity is a dedicated gallery within Islamabad’s Lok Virsa Museum that showcases ancient artifacts and cultural heritage from Pakistan’s early civilizations.
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E.
Isaeum
Isaeum is a type of ancient temple complex dedicated to the Greco-Egyptian deities Isis and Serapis, often serving as a center for their mystery cult worship.
- 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: Mostellaria Target entity description: Mostellaria is a comedic Roman play by Plautus, best known for its farcical plot involving a clever slave, a duped father, and a supposedly haunted house.
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A.
Antiquarium
The Antiquarium is a grand Renaissance hall in the Munich Residenz, renowned as one of the largest and most impressive secular Renaissance interiors in northern Europe, originally built to display the Bavarian dukes’ collection of antique sculptures.
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B.
Sacrofano
Sacrofano is a small historic town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its medieval center and proximity to the natural and archaeological landscapes north of Rome.
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C.
Mamunia
Mamunia is a melodic, reflective song by Paul McCartney and Wings from their 1973 album "Band on the Run."
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D.
Hall of Antiquity
Hall of Antiquity is a dedicated gallery within Islamabad’s Lok Virsa Museum that showcases ancient artifacts and cultural heritage from Pakistan’s early civilizations.
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E.
Isaeum
Isaeum is a type of ancient temple complex dedicated to the Greco-Egyptian deities Isis and Serapis, often serving as a center for their mystery cult worship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman comedy play
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theatrical work ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle | The Haunted House ⓘ |
| audienceReactionIntended | laughter ⓘ |
| author | Plautus ⓘ |
| basedOn | lost Greek original ⓘ |
| centralPlotDevice | supposedly haunted house ⓘ |
| character |
Callidamates
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Philematium ⓘ Philolaches ⓘ Simo ⓘ Theopropides ⓘ Tranio ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Rome
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linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| featuresCharacterType |
clever slave
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courtesan ⓘ strict father ⓘ young lover ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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farce ⓘ |
| hasModernPerformances | true ⓘ |
| influenced |
European Renaissance comedy
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later haunted-house farces ⓘ |
| literaryForm | fabula palliata ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Roman Republican literature ⓘ |
| literaryTradition |
Roman New Comedy
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linked to:
Roman comedy
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| mainTheme |
deception
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family conflict ⓘ trickery ⓘ |
| meter | various Roman comic meters ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | elaborate ruse about a ghost ⓘ |
| notableFor |
clever slave outwitting his master
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haunted-house deception plot ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| partOf |
Plautine corpus
ⓘ
linked to:
Plautus
|
| preservationStatus | extant ⓘ |
| protagonistName | Tranio ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | slave ⓘ |
| setting | Athens ⓘ |
| structure | divided into acts and scenes ⓘ |
| studiedIn | classics curricula ⓘ |
| timeOfComposition | 3rd–2nd century BCE ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | The Haunted House ⓘ |
| typicalFeature |
use of dramatic irony
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use of mistaken identity ⓘ use of stock characters ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mostellaria Description of subject: Mostellaria is a comedic Roman play by Plautus, best known for its farcical plot involving a clever slave, a duped father, and a supposedly haunted house.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.