The Marriage
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"The Marriage" is a lost ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, who was active during the early 3rd century BCE and associated with the New Comedy tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Marriage canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138972 — 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 Marriage Context triple: [Diphilus, hasWork, The Marriage]
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A.
The Wedding
"The Wedding" is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtship, marriage, and social manners.
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B.
The Marrying Kind
The Marrying Kind is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor that explores the ups and downs of a working-class couple’s troubled marriage.
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C.
Du mariage
Du mariage is a sociological and philosophical essay by French statesman Léon Blum examining the institution of marriage, its moral foundations, and its role in modern society.
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D.
Many Marriages
Many Marriages is a 1923 novel by American author Sherwood Anderson that explores themes of love, sexuality, and personal liberation in small-town Midwestern life.
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E.
The Marriage Circle
The Marriage Circle is a 1924 silent romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its sophisticated portrayal of marital relationships and its influence on later Hollywood comedies.
- 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 Marriage Target entity description: "The Marriage" is a lost ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, who was active during the early 3rd century BCE and associated with the New Comedy tradition.
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A.
The Wedding
"The Wedding" is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtship, marriage, and social manners.
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B.
The Marrying Kind
The Marrying Kind is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor that explores the ups and downs of a working-class couple’s troubled marriage.
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C.
Du mariage
Du mariage is a sociological and philosophical essay by French statesman Léon Blum examining the institution of marriage, its moral foundations, and its role in modern society.
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D.
Many Marriages
Many Marriages is a 1923 novel by American author Sherwood Anderson that explores themes of love, sexuality, and personal liberation in small-town Midwestern life.
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E.
The Marriage Circle
The Marriage Circle is a 1924 silent romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its sophisticated portrayal of marital relationships and its influence on later Hollywood comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lost ancient Greek comedy
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play ⓘ theatrical work ⓘ |
| approximateDateOfComposition | early 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| associatedPlaywrightEra | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlaywright | Diphilus of Sinope ⓘ |
| author | Diphilus ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
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| culturalContext | Athenian theatre ⓘ |
| dramaticTradition | New Comedy ⓘ |
| extantStatus | lost ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| intendedPerformanceVenue | Greek theatre festivals ⓘ |
| knownFrom | ancient testimonia and fragmentary references ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryForm | verse drama ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Greek New Comedy
ⓘ
linked to:
New Comedy
|
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| originalMedium | theatrical performance ⓘ |
| originalPerformanceLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| playwrightActivePeriod | early 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| status | lost work ⓘ |
| survivalOfText | no complete text extant ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| workTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
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 Marriage Description of subject: "The Marriage" is a lost ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, who was active during the early 3rd century BCE and associated with the New Comedy tradition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.