Curculio
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Curculio is a comedic play by the Roman playwright Plautus, known for its lively plot involving deception, love, and mistaken identities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Curculio canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138898 — 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: Curculio Context triple: [Plautus, notableWork, Curculio]
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A.
Otiorhynchus sulcatus
Otiorhynchus sulcatus is a species of flightless weevil, commonly known as the black vine weevil, that is a widespread horticultural pest of many ornamental and agricultural plants.
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B.
Anthonomus grandis
Anthonomus grandis, commonly known as the boll weevil, is a notorious agricultural pest beetle that primarily attacks cotton crops.
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C.
Hyleus
Hyleus is a relatively obscure hero from Greek mythology known primarily for being one of the hunters who took part in the legendary Calydonian Boar Hunt.
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D.
Dolichoderus
Dolichoderus is a genus of ants known for their distinctive flattened bodies and widespread distribution across tropical and temperate regions.
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E.
Eudocimus
Eudocimus is a genus of wading birds in the ibis family, best known for including the brightly colored scarlet ibis and related species.
- 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: Curculio Target entity description: Curculio is a comedic play by the Roman playwright Plautus, known for its lively plot involving deception, love, and mistaken identities.
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A.
Otiorhynchus sulcatus
Otiorhynchus sulcatus is a species of flightless weevil, commonly known as the black vine weevil, that is a widespread horticultural pest of many ornamental and agricultural plants.
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B.
Anthonomus grandis
Anthonomus grandis, commonly known as the boll weevil, is a notorious agricultural pest beetle that primarily attacks cotton crops.
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C.
Hyleus
Hyleus is a relatively obscure hero from Greek mythology known primarily for being one of the hunters who took part in the legendary Calydonian Boar Hunt.
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D.
Dolichoderus
Dolichoderus is a genus of ants known for their distinctive flattened bodies and widespread distribution across tropical and temperate regions.
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E.
Eudocimus
Eudocimus is a genus of wading birds in the ibis family, best known for including the brightly colored scarlet ibis and related species.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman comedy
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stage play ⓘ work by Plautus ⓘ |
| author | Plautus ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
deception
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love ⓘ mistaken identity ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| containsElement |
farce
ⓘ
stock characters ⓘ wordplay ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Rome
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linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| featuresCharacter |
Cappadox
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Curculio (parasite) ⓘ Leaena ⓘ Lyco ⓘ Palinurus ⓘ Phaedromus ⓘ Planesia ⓘ Therapontigonus ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasApproximateDate | early 2nd century BCE ⓘ |
| hasPrologueSpeaker | Prologus (personified prologue) ⓘ |
| hasStructure | prologue and multiple acts ⓘ |
| hasTitleInEnglish | The Weevil ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | theatrical comedy ⓘ |
| influenced | later European comic drama ⓘ |
| involvesMotif |
clever slave or parasite outwitting social superiors
ⓘ
military braggart figure ⓘ recognition through tokens ⓘ |
| languageStyle | colloquial Latin ⓘ |
| literaryForm | fabula palliata ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| meter | varied Roman comic meters ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Curculio (parasite character) ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| partOf | Plautine corpus ⓘ |
| plotElement |
attempt to free a courtesan from a pimp
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forged letter ⓘ trick involving a signet ring ⓘ |
| preservedIn | medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ |
| setting |
Epidaurus
ⓘ
Rome ⓘ |
| studiedIn | classical philology ⓘ |
| survivesAs | complete Latin text ⓘ |
| taughtIn | Latin literature courses ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Curculio Description of subject: Curculio is a comedic play by the Roman playwright Plautus, known for its lively plot involving deception, love, and mistaken identities.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.