Epidicus
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Epidicus is a comedic play by the ancient Roman playwright Plautus, known for its clever slave protagonist and intricate plot of deception.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Epidicus canonical | 1 |
| Epidicus (clever slave) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138903 — 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: Epidicus Context triple: [Plautus, notableWork, Epidicus]
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A.
Persaeus of Citium
Persaeus of Citium was an ancient Greek Stoic philosopher and close associate of Zeno of Citium, known for helping develop and disseminate early Stoic thought.
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B.
Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Stoic school, emphasizing virtue, reason, and living in accordance with nature.
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C.
Philo of Larissa
Philo of Larissa was a Hellenistic philosopher and prominent Academic Skeptic who led Plato’s Academy in its later period and influenced Roman intellectuals such as Cicero.
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D.
Epicurus
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a school of thought that taught that the highest good is the pursuit of modest pleasures, tranquility, and freedom from fear through rational understanding of the world.
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E.
Diogenes of Apollonia
Diogenes of Apollonia was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher known for identifying air as the fundamental principle of the cosmos and for integrating natural philosophy with a form of rational theology.
- 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: Epidicus Target entity description: Epidicus is a comedic play by the ancient Roman playwright Plautus, known for its clever slave protagonist and intricate plot of deception.
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A.
Persaeus of Citium
Persaeus of Citium was an ancient Greek Stoic philosopher and close associate of Zeno of Citium, known for helping develop and disseminate early Stoic thought.
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B.
Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Stoic school, emphasizing virtue, reason, and living in accordance with nature.
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C.
Philo of Larissa
Philo of Larissa was a Hellenistic philosopher and prominent Academic Skeptic who led Plato’s Academy in its later period and influenced Roman intellectuals such as Cicero.
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D.
Epicurus
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a school of thought that taught that the highest good is the pursuit of modest pleasures, tranquility, and freedom from fear through rational understanding of the world.
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E.
Diogenes of Apollonia
Diogenes of Apollonia was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher known for identifying air as the fundamental principle of the cosmos and for integrating natural philosophy with a form of rational theology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman comedy
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ work by Plautus ⓘ |
| approximateDateOfComposition | 3rd–2nd century BCE ⓘ |
| author | Plautus ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
|
| featuresCharacter |
Acropolistis
ⓘ
Chrysis ⓘ Epidicus (clever slave) ⓘ
linked to:
Epidicus
Periphanes ⓘ Stratippocles ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | clever slave ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
fabula palliata ⓘ |
| hasCharacterArchetype |
adulescens (young man)
ⓘ
senex (old man) ⓘ servus callidus (clever slave) ⓘ |
| hasManuscriptTransmission | medieval manuscripts of Plautus ⓘ |
| hasModernPerformance | yes ⓘ |
| hasModernTranslation |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
| hasPart |
five acts
ⓘ
prologue ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family relationships
ⓘ
romantic intrigue ⓘ social status and slavery ⓘ trickery and wit ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Greek New Comedy
ⓘ
linked to:
New Comedy
|
| literaryForm | verse drama ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Roman adaptations of Greek plays ⓘ |
| meterUsed |
iambic senarii
ⓘ
polymetric cantica ⓘ trochaic septenarii ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| partOf | Plautine corpus ⓘ |
| plotElement |
deception
ⓘ
mistaken identity ⓘ recognition scene ⓘ |
| setting | Athens ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
classical philology
ⓘ
theatre history ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | extant ⓘ |
| tradition | Roman comic theatre ⓘ |
| writtenIn | Latin language ⓘ |
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: Epidicus Description of subject: Epidicus is a comedic play by the ancient Roman playwright Plautus, known for its clever slave protagonist and intricate plot of deception.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Epidicus