Trojan Women (Euripides)

E105145

ancient Greek tragedy play

Trojan Women is a tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and despair of the women of Troy in the aftermath of the city's destruction in the Trojan War.

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All labels observed (15)

Label	Occurrences
The Trojan Women	19
Trojan Women	6
Trojan women	4
Chorus of Trojan women	1
Euripides' The Trojan Women	1
Euripides' Trojan Women	1
Euripides' play The Trojan Women	1
Euripides’ Trojan Women	1
Les Troyennes d’Euripide	1
The Trojan Women (1971 film)	1
The Trojan Women (stage and film)	1
The Trojan Women (stage role)	1
The Trojan Women (various stage adaptations)	1
Trojan Women (Euripides) canonical	1
Trojan Women (play)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T870177 — 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: Trojan Women (Euripides)
Context triple: [Odysseus, literaryWork, Trojan Women (Euripides)]

A. Hecuba (Euripides)
Hecuba (Euripides) is a Greek tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and vengeance of the Trojan queen Hecuba after the fall of Troy.
B. Philoctetes (Sophocles)
Philoctetes (Sophocles) is a classical Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes the moral and psychological conflict surrounding the marooned archer Philoctetes during the final phase of the Trojan War.
C. Agamemnon
Agamemnon is the legendary king of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War in Greek mythology.
D. Bacchae
Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the devastating consequences of resisting his cult.
E. Sons of Pericles
Sons of Pericles is a junior auxiliary organization of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association that promotes Hellenic heritage, civic responsibility, and leadership among young men.
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: Trojan Women (Euripides)
Target entity description: Trojan Women is a tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and despair of the women of Troy in the aftermath of the city's destruction in the Trojan War.

A. Hecuba (Euripides)
Hecuba (Euripides) is a Greek tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and vengeance of the Trojan queen Hecuba after the fall of Troy.
B. Philoctetes (Sophocles)
Philoctetes (Sophocles) is a classical Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes the moral and psychological conflict surrounding the marooned archer Philoctetes during the final phase of the Trojan War.
C. Agamemnon
Agamemnon is the legendary king of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War in Greek mythology.
D. Bacchae
Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the devastating consequences of resisting his cult.
E. Sons of Pericles
Sons of Pericles is a junior auxiliary organization of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association that promotes Hellenic heritage, civic responsibility, and leadership among young men.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek tragedy ⓘ play ⓘ
associatedWithWar	Trojan War ⓘ
author	Euripides ⓘ
basedOn	mythological cycle of the Trojan War ⓘ
centralCharacter	Hecuba ⓘ
chorus	Trojan women captives ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Ancient Greece ⓘ linked to: Greek Antiquity
depictsEvent	division of Trojan captives among Greek leaders ⓘ enslavement of Trojan women ⓘ murder of Astyanax ⓘ
featuresCharacter	Andromache ⓘ linked to: Andromache (Euripides) Athena ⓘ Cassandra ⓘ Hecuba ⓘ Helen ⓘ Menelaus ⓘ Poseidon ⓘ Talthybius ⓘ
firstPerformanceContext	City Dionysia festival ⓘ linked to: City Dionysia
firstPerformancePlace	Athens ⓘ
firstPerformanceYear	415 BC ⓘ
genre	tragedy ⓘ
hasAdaptation	The Trojan Women (1971 film) ⓘ linked to: Trojan Women (Euripides) The Trojan Women (various stage adaptations) ⓘ linked to: Trojan Women (Euripides)
hasInfluenced	feminist interpretations of classical tragedy ⓘ modern anti-war drama ⓘ
literaryForm	verse drama ⓘ
literaryPeriod	Classical Greek literature ⓘ
mainTheme	critique of war and imperialism ⓘ fate and powerlessness ⓘ misery of enslaved women ⓘ suffering of war victims ⓘ
narrativeFocus	aftermath of war rather than battles ⓘ
originalLanguage	Ancient Greek ⓘ
originalTitle	Τρῳάδες ⓘ
partOf	tetralogy with Alexander, Palamedes, and Sisyphus ⓘ
prologueSpeakers	Athena ⓘ Poseidon ⓘ
relatedWork	Andromache (Euripides) ⓘ Hecuba (Euripides) ⓘ The Aeneid ⓘ linked to: Virgil's Aeneid The Iliad ⓘ linked to: Homer's Iliad
setting	after the fall of Troy ⓘ ruins of Troy ⓘ
survivingStatus	extant complete play by Euripides ⓘ
timePeriodDepicted	mythical age of heroes ⓘ
title	Trojan Women ⓘ linked to: Trojan Women (Euripides)

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