Othello (play)
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Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that explores themes of jealousy, manipulation, and racial prejudice through the downfall of its Moorish general protagonist.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Othello | 17 |
| Othello (play) canonical | 3 |
| Otello | 2 |
| Act 3 of Othello | 1 |
| Othello (stage performance) | 1 |
| Othello (stage performances) | 1 |
| Othello (stage production) | 1 |
| Othello, Act 1 | 1 |
| Shakespeare’s Othello, Act III, Scene 3 | 1 |
| William Shakespeare's Othello | 1 |
| tragedy Othello | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1953027 — 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: Othello (play) Context triple: [Cassio, partOf, Othello (play)]
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Othello (character)
Othello is the Moorish general of the Venetian army and tragic protagonist of Shakespeare’s play "Othello," whose downfall is orchestrated through jealousy and manipulation.
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B.
Othello (1995 film)
Othello (1995 film) is a cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, directed by Oliver Parker and noted for Kenneth Branagh’s acclaimed performance as Iago opposite Laurence Fishburne’s Othello.
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Othello (1965 film)
Othello (1965 film) is a British cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, renowned for Laurence Olivier’s controversial blackface portrayal of the Moorish general.
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is a Shakespearean tragedy dramatizing the passionate and politically fraught relationship between the Roman triumvir Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
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E.
Otelo
Otelo was a prominent Portuguese military officer and revolutionary leader best known for his key role in orchestrating the Carnation Revolution of 1974.
- 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: Othello (play) Target entity description: Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that explores themes of jealousy, manipulation, and racial prejudice through the downfall of its Moorish general protagonist.
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A.
Othello (character)
Othello is the Moorish general of the Venetian army and tragic protagonist of Shakespeare’s play "Othello," whose downfall is orchestrated through jealousy and manipulation.
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B.
Othello (1995 film)
Othello (1995 film) is a cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, directed by Oliver Parker and noted for Kenneth Branagh’s acclaimed performance as Iago opposite Laurence Fishburne’s Othello.
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C.
Othello (1965 film)
Othello (1965 film) is a British cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, renowned for Laurence Olivier’s controversial blackface portrayal of the Moorish general.
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D.
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is a Shakespearean tragedy dramatizing the passionate and politically fraught relationship between the Roman triumvir Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
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E.
Otelo
Otelo was a prominent Portuguese military officer and revolutionary leader best known for his key role in orchestrating the Carnation Revolution of 1974.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Othello (play) Description of subject: Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that explores themes of jealousy, manipulation, and racial prejudice through the downfall of its Moorish general protagonist.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cassio
this entity surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Desdemona
this entity surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Desdemona
this entity surface form:
Othello, Act 1
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Shane Omen
this entity surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Shane Omen
this entity surface form:
William Shakespeare's Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Works of William Shakespeare
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Otello
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Shakespeare’s Othello, Act III, Scene 3
this entity surface form:
Otello
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Otello (character)
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
tragedy Othello
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Bianca (Othello)
this entity surface form:
Act 3 of Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello (stage production)
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello (stage performance)
this entity surface form:
Othello
this entity surface form:
Othello (stage performances)