The Woman from Naxos
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The Woman from Naxos is a lost comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Diphilus, likely centered on a female character from the Aegean island of Naxos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Woman from Naxos canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138994 — 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 Naxos Context triple: [Diphilus, hasWork, The Woman from Naxos]
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A.
The Woman
The Woman is Willy Loman’s unnamed mistress in Arthur Miller’s play "Death of a Salesman," symbolizing his infidelity and the illusory rewards of his failed pursuit of success.
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B.
Tenth Muse
The "Tenth Muse" is an honorific epithet celebrating Sappho as an almost divine poet whose genius was deemed worthy of joining the nine classical Muses of Greek mythology.
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C.
Blest Pair of Sirens
Blest Pair of Sirens is a celebrated choral work by English composer Hubert Parry, renowned for its rich Romantic harmonies and setting of John Milton’s poetry.
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D.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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E.
The Quintet of the Astonished
The Quintet of the Astonished is a video art installation by Bill Viola that presents a slow-motion study of human emotional expression through the reactions of five figures.
- 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 Naxos Target entity description: The Woman from Naxos is a lost comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Diphilus, likely centered on a female character from the Aegean island of Naxos.
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A.
The Woman
The Woman is Willy Loman’s unnamed mistress in Arthur Miller’s play "Death of a Salesman," symbolizing his infidelity and the illusory rewards of his failed pursuit of success.
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B.
Tenth Muse
The "Tenth Muse" is an honorific epithet celebrating Sappho as an almost divine poet whose genius was deemed worthy of joining the nine classical Muses of Greek mythology.
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C.
Blest Pair of Sirens
Blest Pair of Sirens is a celebrated choral work by English composer Hubert Parry, renowned for its rich Romantic harmonies and setting of John Milton’s poetry.
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D.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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E.
The Quintet of the Astonished
The Quintet of the Astonished is a video art installation by Bill Viola that presents a slow-motion study of human emotional expression through the reactions of five figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lost ancient Greek comedy
ⓘ
play ⓘ work of ancient Greek literature ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Naxos ⓘ |
| author | Diphilus ⓘ |
| centuryOfCreation | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| 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
|
| dramaticForm | comic drama ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasFragmentaryEvidence | yes ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| likelyMainCharacterType | woman from Naxos ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Attic New Comedy ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical performance ⓘ |
| originalPerformanceLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | corpus of plays by Diphilus ⓘ |
| probablePerformanceLocation | Greek-speaking world ⓘ |
| relatedAuthor |
Menander
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Philemon ⓘ |
| status | lost ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | female character from the island of Naxos ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | known only from later references and fragments ⓘ |
| workTitleInEnglish | The Woman from Naxos ⓘ |
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 Woman from Naxos Description of subject: The Woman from Naxos is a lost comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Diphilus, likely centered on a female character from the Aegean island of Naxos.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.