Wagner
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Wagner is a character in Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan tragedy "Doctor Faustus," serving as Faustus’s servant and a source of comic relief that contrasts with the play’s darker themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wagner canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22667431 — 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: Wagner Context triple: [The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, mainCharacter, Wagner]
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Wagner
Wagner is a surname most famously associated with Honus Wagner, one of the greatest early baseball players in Major League history.
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Wagner
Wagner is a Federal-Mogul automotive parts brand best known for its replacement brake components and lighting products.
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Wagner
Wagner is a common Portuguese given name, notably borne by Brazilian actor and filmmaker Wagner Moura.
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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner was a 19th-century German composer best known for his revolutionary operas and music dramas, which profoundly shaped Western classical music and artistic thought.
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Richard Wagner (writer)
Richard Wagner is a Romanian-born German writer and essayist known for his works on life under dictatorship and his association with fellow author Herta Müller.
- 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: Wagner Target entity description: Wagner is a character in Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan tragedy "Doctor Faustus," serving as Faustus’s servant and a source of comic relief that contrasts with the play’s darker themes.
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A.
Wagner
Wagner is a surname most famously associated with Honus Wagner, one of the greatest early baseball players in Major League history.
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B.
Wagner
Wagner is a common Portuguese given name, notably borne by Brazilian actor and filmmaker Wagner Moura.
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C.
Wagner
Wagner is a Federal-Mogul automotive parts brand best known for its replacement brake components and lighting products.
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D.
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner was a 19th-century German composer best known for his revolutionary operas and music dramas, which profoundly shaped Western classical music and artistic thought.
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E.
Richard Wagner (writer)
Richard Wagner is a Romanian-born German writer and essayist known for his works on life under dictatorship and his association with fellow author Herta Müller.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.