The Works of Mr. William Shakespear (1709 edition)
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The Works of Mr. William Shakespear (1709 edition) is Nicholas Rowe’s influential early collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, notable for its biographical preface and for helping to establish the canon and modern editorial tradition of Shakespearean texts.
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| The Works of Mr. William Shakespear (1709 edition) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20285715 — 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 Works of Mr. William Shakespear (1709 edition) Context triple: [Nicholas Rowe, notableWork, The Works of Mr. William Shakespear (1709 edition)]
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A.
Ben Jonson folio of 1616
The Ben Jonson folio of 1616 is the landmark collected edition of Jonson’s works, notable as one of the earliest English folios to present plays as serious literary texts.
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B.
Second Folio of Shakespeare
The Second Folio of Shakespeare is the 1632 second collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, notable for reprinting and slightly revising the landmark First Folio text.
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C.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is a comprehensive collection of all of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems, widely regarded as a cornerstone of English literature and dramatic art.
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D.
Third Folio of Shakespeare
The Third Folio of Shakespeare is the 1663–1664 edition of William Shakespeare’s collected plays, notable for adding several plays not included in earlier folios and for its relative rarity due to the Great Fire of London.
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E.
First Folio of Shakespeare
The First Folio of Shakespeare is the 1623 collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, regarded as the most authoritative early source for many of his works and a cornerstone of English literary history.
- 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 Works of Mr. William Shakespear (1709 edition) Target entity description: The Works of Mr. William Shakespear (1709 edition) is Nicholas Rowe’s influential early collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, notable for its biographical preface and for helping to establish the canon and modern editorial tradition of Shakespearean texts.
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A.
Ben Jonson folio of 1616
The Ben Jonson folio of 1616 is the landmark collected edition of Jonson’s works, notable as one of the earliest English folios to present plays as serious literary texts.
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B.
Second Folio of Shakespeare
The Second Folio of Shakespeare is the 1632 second collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, notable for reprinting and slightly revising the landmark First Folio text.
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C.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is a comprehensive collection of all of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems, widely regarded as a cornerstone of English literature and dramatic art.
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D.
Third Folio of Shakespeare
The Third Folio of Shakespeare is the 1663–1664 edition of William Shakespeare’s collected plays, notable for adding several plays not included in earlier folios and for its relative rarity due to the Great Fire of London.
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E.
First Folio of Shakespeare
The First Folio of Shakespeare is the 1623 collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, regarded as the most authoritative early source for many of his works and a cornerstone of English literary history.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.