curse of Oedipus
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The curse of Oedipus is a tragic doom placed upon Oedipus and his descendants, leading to inevitable conflict, suffering, and destruction within his family line in Greek mythology.
All labels observed (1)
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| curse of Oedipus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4917944 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: curse of Oedipus Context triple: [Eteocles, associatedWithCurse, curse of Oedipus]
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curse of the Alcmaeonids
The curse of the Alcmaeonids is a legendary hereditary miasma in ancient Greek tradition said to doom the powerful Athenian Alcmaeonid clan to recurring misfortune and political turmoil due to ancestral sacrilege.
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Oedipus
Oedipus is a tragic hero in Greek mythology best known for unwittingly killing his father and marrying his mother, a fate he was prophesied to fulfill.
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Ödipus und die Sphinx
Ödipus und die Sphinx is a dramatic work by Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal that reinterprets the Greek myth of Oedipus’s encounter with the Sphinx in a symbolist, psychologically nuanced style.
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D.
Electra (Sophocles)
Electra (Sophocles) is an ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes Electra’s quest for vengeance against her mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus for the murder of her father Agamemnon.
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Nerde Antigone
Nerde Antigone is a notable poetic work by the prominent Turkish modernist poet Edip Cansever.
- 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: curse of Oedipus Target entity description: The curse of Oedipus is a tragic doom placed upon Oedipus and his descendants, leading to inevitable conflict, suffering, and destruction within his family line in Greek mythology.
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A.
curse of the Alcmaeonids
The curse of the Alcmaeonids is a legendary hereditary miasma in ancient Greek tradition said to doom the powerful Athenian Alcmaeonid clan to recurring misfortune and political turmoil due to ancestral sacrilege.
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B.
Oedipus
Oedipus is a tragic hero in Greek mythology best known for unwittingly killing his father and marrying his mother, a fate he was prophesied to fulfill.
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C.
Ödipus und die Sphinx
Ödipus und die Sphinx is a dramatic work by Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal that reinterprets the Greek myth of Oedipus’s encounter with the Sphinx in a symbolist, psychologically nuanced style.
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D.
Electra (Sophocles)
Electra (Sophocles) is an ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles that dramatizes Electra’s quest for vengeance against her mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus for the murder of her father Agamemnon.
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E.
Nerde Antigone
Nerde Antigone is a notable poetic work by the prominent Turkish modernist poet Edip Cansever.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
motif in Greek tragedy
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mythological curse ⓘ theme in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Antigone
NERFINISHED
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Eteocles NERFINISHED ⓘ Ismene NERFINISHED ⓘ Jocasta NERFINISHED ⓘ Laius NERFINISHED ⓘ Oedipus NERFINISHED ⓘ Polynices NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithMythCycle | Theban cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralToWork |
Antigone
NERFINISHED
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Oedipus Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ Oedipus at Colonus NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenician Women NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Against Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedToProphecy | Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
plays of Aeschylus
NERFINISHED
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plays of Euripides NERFINISHED ⓘ plays of Sophocles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exemplifies |
conflict between free will and fate
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tragic irony ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpactOn |
Western tragic literature
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psychoanalytic interpretations of myth ⓘ |
| hasOriginIn | Greek mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvesTheme |
divine retribution
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family tragedy ⓘ fate ⓘ incest ⓘ inevitability of destiny ⓘ intergenerational guilt ⓘ parricide ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | to explain the repeated disasters of the house of Laius ⓘ |
| relatedHouse |
house of Laius
NERFINISHED
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royal house of Thebes ⓘ |
| resultsIn |
civil war in Thebes
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conflict between Eteocles and Polynices ⓘ death of Antigone ⓘ death of Eteocles ⓘ death of Jocasta ⓘ death of Polynices ⓘ exile of Oedipus ⓘ self-blinding of Oedipus ⓘ suffering of Antigone ⓘ suffering of Oedipus ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfMyth | Archaic and Classical Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| triggeredBy | transgression of Laius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Subject: curse of Oedipus Description of subject: The curse of Oedipus is a tragic doom placed upon Oedipus and his descendants, leading to inevitable conflict, suffering, and destruction within his family line in Greek mythology.
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