The Woman from Cyprus
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"The Woman from Cyprus" is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, known only through surviving fragments and later adaptations by Roman dramatists.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Woman from Chios | 1 |
| The Woman from Cyprus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138987 — 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: The Woman from Cyprus Context triple: [Diphilus, hasWork, The Woman from Cyprus]
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A.
The Girl from Samos
The Girl from Samos is an ancient Greek comedy by Menander that humorously explores love, mistaken identity, and social conventions in classical Athens.
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B.
The Girl from Samos
The Girl from Samos is a lost comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Diphilus, known from later references and adaptations in Roman New Comedy.
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C.
The Woman from Naxos
The Woman from Naxos is a lost comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Diphilus, likely centered on a female character from the Aegean island of Naxos.
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D.
The Woman from Samos
The Woman from Samos is an ancient Greek comedy by Menander that explores love, mistaken identity, and family intrigue in a domestic setting.
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E.
The Cretan Lover
The Cretan Lover is a novel by British author John Gardner that reimagines classical myth through a psychologically rich and stylistically ambitious narrative set in ancient Crete.
- 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: The Woman from Cyprus Target entity description: "The Woman from Cyprus" is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, known only through surviving fragments and later adaptations by Roman dramatists.
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A.
The Girl from Samos
The Girl from Samos is an ancient Greek comedy by Menander that humorously explores love, mistaken identity, and social conventions in classical Athens.
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B.
The Girl from Samos
The Girl from Samos is a lost comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Diphilus, known from later references and adaptations in Roman New Comedy.
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C.
The Woman from Naxos
The Woman from Naxos is a lost comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Diphilus, likely centered on a female character from the Aegean island of Naxos.
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D.
The Woman from Samos
The Woman from Samos is an ancient Greek comedy by Menander that explores love, mistaken identity, and family intrigue in a domestic setting.
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E.
The Cretan Lover
The Cretan Lover is a novel by British author John Gardner that reimagines classical myth through a psychologically rich and stylistically ambitious narrative set in ancient Crete.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek comedy
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fragmentary play ⓘ lost play ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Cyprus in Greek culture ⓘ |
| author | Diphilus ⓘ |
| cataloguedIn | fragments of Greek New Comedy ⓘ |
| centuryOfComposition | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Greece
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linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| culturalContext | Hellenistic Athens ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | comedy in verse ⓘ |
| genre | New Comedy ⓘ |
| hasFragment | fragment preserved in later authors ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
Plautine comedy
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linked to:
Roman comedy
Roman comedy ⓘ Terentian comedy ⓘ
linked to:
Roman comedy
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| knownFrom |
citations in later literary sources
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indirect tradition via Roman dramatists ⓘ |
| literaryTradition |
Greek New Comedy
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linked to:
New Comedy
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| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | corpus of Diphilus ⓘ |
| setting | Greek world ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | fragmentary ⓘ |
| textualTransmission |
known through fragments
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known through later adaptations ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | a woman from Cyprus ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: The Woman from Cyprus Description of subject: "The Woman from Cyprus" is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, known only through surviving fragments and later adaptations by Roman dramatists.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.