Cistellaria
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Cistellaria is an ancient Roman comedy by the playwright Plautus, known for its intricate plot involving mistaken identities and a lost casket.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cistellaria canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138902 — 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: Cistellaria Context triple: [Plautus, notableWork, Cistellaria]
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A.
Corthylio
Corthylio is a genus of small passerine birds in the kinglet family Regulidae, best known for the ruby-crowned kinglet.
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B.
Clypearia
Clypearia is a genus of social wasps within the subfamily Polistinae, known for forming paper nests and exhibiting complex colony behavior.
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C.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
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D.
Thargelia
Thargelia was an ancient Athenian festival in honor of Apollo (and Artemis), marked by offerings of first fruits and purification rituals intended to protect and renew the community.
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E.
Trichopsetta
Trichopsetta is a genus of lefteye flounders, a group of bottom-dwelling flatfishes found in marine environments.
- 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: Cistellaria Target entity description: Cistellaria is an ancient Roman comedy by the playwright Plautus, known for its intricate plot involving mistaken identities and a lost casket.
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A.
Corthylio
Corthylio is a genus of small passerine birds in the kinglet family Regulidae, best known for the ruby-crowned kinglet.
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B.
Clypearia
Clypearia is a genus of social wasps within the subfamily Polistinae, known for forming paper nests and exhibiting complex colony behavior.
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C.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
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D.
Thargelia
Thargelia was an ancient Athenian festival in honor of Apollo (and Artemis), marked by offerings of first fruits and purification rituals intended to protect and renew the community.
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E.
Trichopsetta
Trichopsetta is a genus of lefteye flounders, a group of bottom-dwelling flatfishes found in marine environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin-language play
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ancient Roman comedy ⓘ play ⓘ |
| author | Plautus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | lost Greek New Comedy model ⓘ |
| belongsToCorpus | Plautine comedies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralPlotDevice |
lost casket
ⓘ
tokens of recognition ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Alcesimarchus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Demipho NERFINISHED ⓘ Gymnasium ⓘ Halisca NERFINISHED ⓘ Lampadio NERFINISHED ⓘ Melaenis NERFINISHED ⓘ Selenium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ancient Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | New Comedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
courtesan (meretrix)
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old man (senex) ⓘ parasite ⓘ young lover (adulescens) ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
courtesan with a heart of gold
ⓘ
exposed infant ⓘ recognition by tokens ⓘ |
| hasPart |
five-act structure (in later division)
ⓘ
prologue ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family reunion
ⓘ
legitimacy and birth ⓘ lost child ⓘ marriage arrangements ⓘ mistaken identity ⓘ parent–child relationships ⓘ recognition ⓘ romantic love ⓘ social status ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Greek New Comedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryForm | verse comedy ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meterUsed | various Roman comic meters ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| partOf | Latin school curricula (historically) ⓘ |
| setting | a Greek city ⓘ |
| studiedIn | classical philology ⓘ |
| survivalStatus | partially preserved ⓘ |
| timeOfComposition | 3rd–2nd century BCE ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | The Little Casket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workOf | Titus Maccius Plautus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Cistellaria Description of subject: Cistellaria is an ancient Roman comedy by the playwright Plautus, known for its intricate plot involving mistaken identities and a lost casket.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.