Edmund
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Edmund is the ambitious and manipulative illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester in Shakespeare’s tragedy "King Lear."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edmund canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15106321 — 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: Edmund Context triple: [Goneril, romanticInterest, Edmund]
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A.
Edmund
Edmund is a traditional given name of English origin, historically borne by kings and saints and still used in various English-speaking countries.
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B.
Edmund Beauchamp
Edmund Beauchamp was a lesser-known member of the English Beauchamp family, notable primarily as a child of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe, who was the grandmother of King Henry VII.
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C.
Edmund Sylvers
Edmund Sylvers was an American singer and actor best known as the lead vocalist of the family R&B group The Sylvers, which gained popularity in the 1970s.
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D.
Edmund of Abingdon
Edmund of Abingdon was a 13th-century English scholar, theologian, and Archbishop of Canterbury who was later canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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E.
Eustace
Eustace is an English-language surname of likely Norman or medieval European origin, borne by various individuals and families.
- 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: Edmund Target entity description: Edmund is the ambitious and manipulative illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester in Shakespeare’s tragedy "King Lear."
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A.
Edmund
Edmund is a traditional given name of English origin, historically borne by kings and saints and still used in various English-speaking countries.
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B.
Edmund Beauchamp
Edmund Beauchamp was a lesser-known member of the English Beauchamp family, notable primarily as a child of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe, who was the grandmother of King Henry VII.
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C.
Edmund Sylvers
Edmund Sylvers was an American singer and actor best known as the lead vocalist of the family R&B group The Sylvers, which gained popularity in the 1970s.
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D.
Edmund of Abingdon
Edmund of Abingdon was a 13th-century English scholar, theologian, and Archbishop of Canterbury who was later canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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E.
Eustace
Eustace is an English-language surname of likely Norman or medieval European origin, borne by various individuals and families.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.