The Woman from Perinthus
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The Woman from Perinthus is an ancient Greek New Comedy play by Diphilus, known through fragments and later adaptations by Roman playwrights.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Woman from Perinthus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138989 — 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 Perinthus Context triple: [Diphilus, hasWork, The Woman from Perinthus]
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A.
The Woman from Pontus
The Woman from Pontus is a lost comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Diphilus, likely centered on a female character from the Black Sea region of Pontus and typical of New Comedy’s focus on domestic and social themes.
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B.
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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C.
The Woman from Corinth
The Woman from Corinth is a lost ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, likely centered on domestic and romantic entanglements characteristic of New Comedy.
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D.
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is a dramatic Baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the mythological abduction of Leucippus’s daughters by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
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E.
The Goddess
"The Goddess" is a 1911 stage play by Indian writer and filmmaker Niranjan Pal, notable for its early exploration of nationalist and social themes in colonial India.
- 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 Perinthus Target entity description: The Woman from Perinthus is an ancient Greek New Comedy play by Diphilus, known through fragments and later adaptations by Roman playwrights.
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A.
The Woman from Pontus
The Woman from Pontus is a lost comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Diphilus, likely centered on a female character from the Black Sea region of Pontus and typical of New Comedy’s focus on domestic and social themes.
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B.
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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C.
The Woman from Corinth
The Woman from Corinth is a lost ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, likely centered on domestic and romantic entanglements characteristic of New Comedy.
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D.
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is a dramatic Baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the mythological abduction of Leucippus’s daughters by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
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E.
The Goddess
"The Goddess" is a 1911 stage play by Indian writer and filmmaker Niranjan Pal, notable for its early exploration of nationalist and social themes in colonial India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Comedy play
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ancient Greek play ⓘ lost play ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor |
Plautus
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Terence ⓘ |
| author | Diphilus ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Greece
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linked to:
Greek Antiquity
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| culturalContext |
Hellenistic Greece
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linked to:
Hellenistic period
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| dateOfComposition | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| dramaticGenre | comedy ⓘ |
| dramaticPeriod |
Greek New Comedy period
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linked to:
Attic New Comedy
|
| extantStatus |
fragmentary
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survives in fragments ⓘ |
| genre | New Comedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Perinthia (lost Roman comedy)
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Roman New Comedy tradition ⓘ |
| hasWorkTitleInGreek | Ἡ ἐκ Περίνθου (He ek Perinthou) ⓘ |
| hasWorkTitleInLatin | Perinthia ⓘ |
| influenced | Roman comedy ⓘ |
| knownThrough |
fragments
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later Roman adaptations ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European languages
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linked to:
Indo-European language family
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| literaryForm | verse drama ⓘ |
| literaryTradition |
Greek New Comedy
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linked to:
New Comedy
|
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | corpus of Diphilus ⓘ |
| scholarlyTopic |
Greek–Roman comic intertextuality
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reconstruction of lost Greek comedies ⓘ |
| setting |
Perinthus
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Thracian city of Perinthus ⓘ |
| subgenre | domestic comedy ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | relationships and household affairs ⓘ |
| transmission |
indirect tradition
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quotations in later authors ⓘ |
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