The Parasite
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The Parasite is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, likely centered on the humorous exploits of a sycophantic freeloader in social and domestic settings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Parasite canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138967 — 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 Parasite Context triple: [Diphilus, hasWork, The Parasite]
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A.
The Parasite
The Parasite is a science fiction story by Arthur C. Clarke, featured as one of the pieces in his collection "The Other Side of the Sky."
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B.
The Parasite
The Parasite is a horror novel by British writer Ramsey Campbell that explores psychological terror and supernatural influence through the story of a woman haunted by an otherworldly presence.
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C.
Parasite
Parasite is a critically acclaimed 2019 South Korean dark comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho that explores class inequality through a gripping and genre-bending narrative.
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D.
Okja
Okja is a 2017 South Korean–American adventure-drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho that follows a young girl’s quest to rescue her genetically engineered “super pig” from a powerful multinational corporation.
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E.
Minari
Minari is a critically acclaimed 2020 American drama film about a Korean-American family starting a farm in rural Arkansas, noted for its nuanced portrayal of immigrant life and its award-winning performances.
- 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 Parasite Target entity description: The Parasite is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, likely centered on the humorous exploits of a sycophantic freeloader in social and domestic settings.
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A.
The Parasite
The Parasite is a science fiction story by Arthur C. Clarke, featured as one of the pieces in his collection "The Other Side of the Sky."
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B.
The Parasite
The Parasite is a horror novel by British writer Ramsey Campbell that explores psychological terror and supernatural influence through the story of a woman haunted by an otherworldly presence.
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C.
Parasite
Parasite is a critically acclaimed 2019 South Korean dark comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho that explores class inequality through a gripping and genre-bending narrative.
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D.
Okja
Okja is a 2017 South Korean–American adventure-drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho that follows a young girl’s quest to rescue her genetically engineered “super pig” from a powerful multinational corporation.
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E.
Minari
Minari is a critically acclaimed 2020 American drama film about a Korean-American family starting a farm in rural Arkansas, noted for its nuanced portrayal of immigrant life and its award-winning performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek comedy
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play ⓘ |
| associatedTradition |
Athenian New Comedy
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linked to:
New Comedy
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| author | Diphilus ⓘ |
| characterArchetype | parasite (comic stock character) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Greece
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linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| culturalContext |
Hellenistic Athens or Greek world
ⓘ
linked to:
Hellenistic Athens
|
| dramaticForm | stage play ⓘ |
| genre | New Comedy ⓘ |
| hasAuthorRole | Diphilus ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryCategory | ancient Greek drama ⓘ |
| literaryForm | comedy ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Hellenistic literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacterType |
parasite
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sycophantic freeloader ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
parasitism in social relations
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social satire ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| originalAudience | Greek-speaking audience ⓘ |
| originalWorkStatus | fragmentary ⓘ |
| periodOfComposition | 3rd century BC ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | parasite (social freeloader) ⓘ |
| relatedGenre | Roman comedy (influenced by Greek New Comedy) ⓘ |
| setting |
domestic life
ⓘ
social gatherings ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
comic exploitation of hosts
ⓘ
flattery for material gain ⓘ |
| workOf | Diphilus ⓘ |
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: The Parasite Description of subject: The Parasite is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, likely centered on the humorous exploits of a sycophantic freeloader in social and domestic settings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.