Despina
E934170
Despina is the clever and mischievous maid in Mozart’s opera "Così fan tutte," known for orchestrating much of the comic intrigue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Despina canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11590378 — 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: Despina Context triple: [Così fan tutte, principalCharacter, Despina]
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A.
Despina
Despina is a small inner moon of Neptune known for its irregular shape and close, rapid orbit around the planet.
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B.
Phrontis
Phrontis is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the father of the Trojan War hero Euphorbus.
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C.
Ianthe
Ianthe is a central fictional character associated with the fairy realm in works featuring the figure of Queen Mab.
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D.
Aglaea
Aglaea is a Greek goddess associated with beauty and splendor, one of the three Graces (Charites) in classical mythology.
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E.
Philyra
Philyra is an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the centaur Chiron.
- 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: Despina Target entity description: Despina is the clever and mischievous maid in Mozart’s opera "Così fan tutte," known for orchestrating much of the comic intrigue.
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A.
Despina
Despina is a small inner moon of Neptune known for its irregular shape and close, rapid orbit around the planet.
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B.
Phrontis
Phrontis is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the father of the Trojan War hero Euphorbus.
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C.
Ianthe
Ianthe is a central fictional character associated with the fairy realm in works featuring the figure of Queen Mab.
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D.
Aglaea
Aglaea is a Greek goddess associated with beauty and splendor, one of the three Graces (Charites) in classical mythology.
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E.
Philyra
Philyra is an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the centaur Chiron.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
opera character ⓘ soubrette ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Così fan tutte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Don Alfonso
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dorabella NERFINISHED ⓘ Ferrando NERFINISHED ⓘ Fiordiligi NERFINISHED ⓘ Guglielmo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
clever
ⓘ
mischievous ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| composerOfWorkAppearedIn | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork | Austria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deceivesCharacter |
Dorabella
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fiordiligi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| disguise |
doctor
ⓘ
notary ⓘ |
| dramaticArchetype |
comic confidante
ⓘ
servant trickster ⓘ |
| employer |
Dorabella
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fiordiligi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Così fan tutte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1790 ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceLocation | Burgtheater, Vienna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceWork | Così fan tutte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | comic opera ⓘ |
| helpsCharacter | Don Alfonso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Italian ⓘ |
| librettistCreator | Lorenzo Da Ponte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| librettistOfWorkAppearedIn | Lorenzo Da Ponte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | opera ⓘ |
| nationalityOfWorkContext | Austrian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic relief
ⓘ
orchestrating comic intrigue ⓘ |
| operaGenre | dramma giocoso ⓘ |
| primaryFunctionInPlot |
instigator of romantic deceptions
ⓘ
servant who manipulates her mistresses ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
clever maid
ⓘ
mischievous maid ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfCreation | Classical era ⓘ |
| typicalCasting | light lyric soprano ⓘ |
| voiceType | soprano ⓘ |
| workTitle | Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti 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
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: Despina Description of subject: Despina is the clever and mischievous maid in Mozart’s opera "Così fan tutte," known for orchestrating much of the comic intrigue.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.