Cistellaria
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Cistellaria is an ancient Roman comedy by the playwright Plautus, known for its intricate plot involving mistaken identities and a lost casket.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cistellaria canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138902 — 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: Cistellaria Context triple: [Plautus, notableWork, Cistellaria]
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A.
Corthylio
Corthylio is a genus of small passerine birds in the kinglet family Regulidae, best known for the ruby-crowned kinglet.
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B.
Clypearia
Clypearia is a genus of social wasps within the subfamily Polistinae, known for forming paper nests and exhibiting complex colony behavior.
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C.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
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D.
Thargelia
Thargelia was an ancient Athenian festival in honor of Apollo (and Artemis), marked by offerings of first fruits and purification rituals intended to protect and renew the community.
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E.
Trichopsetta
Trichopsetta is a genus of lefteye flounders, a group of bottom-dwelling flatfishes found in marine environments.
- 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: Cistellaria Target entity description: Cistellaria is an ancient Roman comedy by the playwright Plautus, known for its intricate plot involving mistaken identities and a lost casket.
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A.
Corthylio
Corthylio is a genus of small passerine birds in the kinglet family Regulidae, best known for the ruby-crowned kinglet.
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B.
Clypearia
Clypearia is a genus of social wasps within the subfamily Polistinae, known for forming paper nests and exhibiting complex colony behavior.
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C.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
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D.
Thargelia
Thargelia was an ancient Athenian festival in honor of Apollo (and Artemis), marked by offerings of first fruits and purification rituals intended to protect and renew the community.
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E.
Trichopsetta
Trichopsetta is a genus of lefteye flounders, a group of bottom-dwelling flatfishes found in marine environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin-language play
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ancient Roman comedy ⓘ play ⓘ |
| author | Plautus ⓘ |
| basedOn | lost Greek New Comedy model ⓘ |
| belongsToCorpus |
Plautine comedies
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman comedy
|
| centralPlotDevice |
lost casket
ⓘ
tokens of recognition ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Alcesimarchus
ⓘ
Demipho ⓘ Gymnasium ⓘ Halisca ⓘ Lampadio ⓘ Melaenis ⓘ Selenium ⓘ
linked to:
Sauce Labs
|
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
|
| genre | New Comedy ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
courtesan (meretrix)
ⓘ
old man (senex) ⓘ parasite ⓘ young lover (adulescens) ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
courtesan with a heart of gold
ⓘ
exposed infant ⓘ recognition by tokens ⓘ |
| hasPart |
five-act structure (in later division)
ⓘ
prologue ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family reunion
ⓘ
legitimacy and birth ⓘ lost child ⓘ marriage arrangements ⓘ mistaken identity ⓘ parent–child relationships ⓘ recognition ⓘ romantic love ⓘ social status ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Greek New Comedy
ⓘ
linked to:
New Comedy
|
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryForm | verse comedy ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| meterUsed | various Roman comic meters ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| partOf | Latin school curricula (historically) ⓘ |
| setting | a Greek city ⓘ |
| studiedIn | classical philology ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | partially preserved ⓘ |
| timeOfComposition | 3rd–2nd century BCE ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | The Little Casket ⓘ |
| workOf |
Titus Maccius Plautus
ⓘ
linked to:
Plautus
|
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: Cistellaria Description of subject: Cistellaria is an ancient Roman comedy by the playwright Plautus, known for its intricate plot involving mistaken identities and a lost casket.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.