Three Witches
E1513699
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The Three Witches are the mysterious, fate-weaving figures in Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" whose cryptic prophecies drive the play’s tragic events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Three Witches canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22029788 — 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: Three Witches Context triple: [Banquo, prophecyReceivedFrom, Three Witches]
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A.
The Tavern Scene
The Tavern Scene is a genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert depicting lively social life in a rustic inn.
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B.
Queen Mab
Queen Mab is an early philosophical poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that presents his radical views on religion, politics, and social justice through a visionary dream narrative.
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C.
Voodoo Macbeth
Voodoo Macbeth is a groundbreaking 1936 all-Black adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Macbeth," directed by Orson Welles and set in a Caribbean voodoo context, produced under the U.S. Federal Theatre Project.
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D.
Dramatis Personae
Dramatis Personae is a collection of dramatic monologue poems by Robert Browning that helped solidify his reputation as a major Victorian poet.
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E.
The Prologue
The Prologue is the opening section of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety,” setting the psychological and thematic stage for the work’s exploration of postwar disquiet.
- 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: Three Witches Target entity description: The Three Witches are the mysterious, fate-weaving figures in Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" whose cryptic prophecies drive the play’s tragic events.
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A.
The Tavern Scene
The Tavern Scene is a genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert depicting lively social life in a rustic inn.
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B.
Queen Mab
Queen Mab is an early philosophical poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that presents his radical views on religion, politics, and social justice through a visionary dream narrative.
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C.
Voodoo Macbeth
Voodoo Macbeth is a groundbreaking 1936 all-Black adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Macbeth," directed by Orson Welles and set in a Caribbean voodoo context, produced under the U.S. Federal Theatre Project.
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D.
Dramatis Personae
Dramatis Personae is a collection of dramatic monologue poems by Robert Browning that helped solidify his reputation as a major Victorian poet.
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E.
The Prologue
The Prologue is the opening section of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety,” setting the psychological and thematic stage for the work’s exploration of postwar disquiet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.