Clouds (play)
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Clouds is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that satirizes Socrates and the intellectual fashions of classical Athens.
All labels observed (1)
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| Clouds (play) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3628623 — 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: Clouds (play) Context triple: [Socrates' Thinkery, relatedWork, Clouds (play)]
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A.
The Humans (play)
The Humans is a critically acclaimed one-act drama by Stephen Karam that portrays a family’s tense Thanksgiving gathering in a New York City apartment, exploring themes of anxiety, class, and generational conflict.
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B.
The Real Thing
The Real Thing is a 1982 play by Tom Stoppard that explores love, fidelity, and authenticity through a meta-theatrical story about a playwright whose personal and professional lives intertwine.
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C.
Spotlighters Theatre
Spotlighters Theatre is an intimate, long-running community theater in Baltimore known for its small in-the-round stage and diverse lineup of plays and musicals.
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D.
Christopher Blake (play)
Christopher Blake is a stage play by American dramatist Moss Hart, best known for its exploration of family and marital tensions in mid-20th-century New York.
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E.
The Play
The Play is the famous last-second kickoff return by the California Golden Bears against Stanford in 1982, featuring multiple laterals and a collision with the Stanford band, and is considered one of the most iconic and chaotic plays in college football history.
- 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: Clouds (play) Target entity description: Clouds is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that satirizes Socrates and the intellectual fashions of classical Athens.
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A.
The Humans (play)
The Humans is a critically acclaimed one-act drama by Stephen Karam that portrays a family’s tense Thanksgiving gathering in a New York City apartment, exploring themes of anxiety, class, and generational conflict.
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B.
The Real Thing
The Real Thing is a 1982 play by Tom Stoppard that explores love, fidelity, and authenticity through a meta-theatrical story about a playwright whose personal and professional lives intertwine.
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C.
Spotlighters Theatre
Spotlighters Theatre is an intimate, long-running community theater in Baltimore known for its small in-the-round stage and diverse lineup of plays and musicals.
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D.
Christopher Blake (play)
Christopher Blake is a stage play by American dramatist Moss Hart, best known for its exploration of family and marital tensions in mid-20th-century New York.
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E.
The Play
The Play is the famous last-second kickoff return by the California Golden Bears against Stanford in 1982, featuring multiple laterals and a collision with the Stanford band, and is considered one of the most iconic and chaotic plays in college football history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek comedy
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stage play ⓘ |
| author | Aristophanes ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
abuse of rhetoric
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conflict between old and new education ⓘ critique of sophistry ⓘ generational conflict ⓘ |
| competitionResult | third prize at City Dionysia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Classical Athens ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Socrates ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 423 BC ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceEvent | City Dionysia ⓘ |
| firstPerformancePlace | Athens ⓘ |
| genre | Old Comedy ⓘ |
| hasChorus | Clouds ⓘ |
| hasForm | verse drama ⓘ |
| hasTopic |
debt and finance
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education ⓘ family relations ⓘ morality ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
original 423 BC version
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revised version ⓘ |
| influenced | later perceptions of Socrates ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Athenian intellectual life
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Sophistic movement ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Attic Old Comedy ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Classical Greek literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Pheidippides
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Strepsiades ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
comic portrayal of Socrates in a thinking-shop (Phrontisterion)
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extended parabasis where Aristophanes addresses the audience ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| parodies |
Socratic method
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natural philosophy ⓘ |
| partOf | Aristophanes’ surviving plays ⓘ |
| satirizes |
Socrates
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Sophists ⓘ intellectual fashions of classical Athens ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Athens ⓘ |
| structure |
agon
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episodes ⓘ exodos ⓘ parabasis ⓘ parodos ⓘ prologue ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | Peloponnesian War era ⓘ |
| workInLanguage | Clouds (Ancient Greek title: Nephelai) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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