The Woman from Corinth
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The Woman from Corinth is a lost ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, likely centered on domestic and romantic entanglements characteristic of New Comedy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Woman from Corinth canonical | 1 |
| The Woman from Lemnos | 1 |
| The Woman from Megara | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138982 — 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 Corinth Context triple: [Diphilus, hasWork, The Woman from Corinth]
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A.
The Woman from Samos
The Woman from Samos is an ancient Greek comedy by Menander that explores love, mistaken identity, and family intrigue in a domestic setting.
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B.
The Woman from Ephesus
The Woman from Ephesus is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, likely centered on domestic and romantic intrigues in the city of Ephesus.
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C.
Trionfo di Afrodite
Trionfo di Afrodite is a cantata by Carl Orff that celebrates the mythic and sensual aspects of love through powerful choral and orchestral writing.
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D.
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is a dramatic Baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the mythological abduction of Leucippus’s daughters by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
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E.
The Cretan Lover
The Cretan Lover is a novel by British author John Gardner that reimagines classical myth through a psychologically rich and stylistically ambitious narrative set in ancient Crete.
- 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 Corinth Target entity description: The Woman from Corinth is a lost ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, likely centered on domestic and romantic entanglements characteristic of New Comedy.
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A.
The Woman from Samos
The Woman from Samos is an ancient Greek comedy by Menander that explores love, mistaken identity, and family intrigue in a domestic setting.
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B.
The Woman from Ephesus
The Woman from Ephesus is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, likely centered on domestic and romantic intrigues in the city of Ephesus.
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C.
Trionfo di Afrodite
Trionfo di Afrodite is a cantata by Carl Orff that celebrates the mythic and sensual aspects of love through powerful choral and orchestral writing.
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D.
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is a dramatic Baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the mythological abduction of Leucippus’s daughters by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
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E.
The Cretan Lover
The Cretan Lover is a novel by British author John Gardner that reimagines classical myth through a psychologically rich and stylistically ambitious narrative set in ancient Crete.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Comedy play
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ancient Greek comedy ⓘ lost play ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Athenian theatre ⓘ |
| author | Diphilus ⓘ |
| centuryOfComposition | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| characteristicFeatures |
plot based on private and family affairs
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stock characters typical of New Comedy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Greece
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linked to:
Greek Antiquity
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| culturalContext | Hellenistic period theatre ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | stage play ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| likelyThemes |
domestic life
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romantic entanglements ⓘ social relationships ⓘ |
| literaryTradition |
Greek New Comedy
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linked to:
New Comedy
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| originalStatus | lost ⓘ |
| partOf | corpus of plays by Diphilus ⓘ |
| setting | Corinth ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | known only from later references and fragments ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Woman from Corinth Description of subject: The Woman from Corinth is a lost ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, likely centered on domestic and romantic entanglements characteristic of New Comedy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.