Robin Starveling
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Robin Starveling is a minor comic character in Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, a tailor who plays the role of Moonshine in the craftsmen’s play-within-the-play.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robin Starveling canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5109930 — 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: Robin Starveling Context triple: [A Midsummer Night's Dream, character, Robin Starveling]
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A.
Giles
Giles is a lonely, aging gay artist and Elisa's compassionate neighbor and confidant in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water."
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B.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
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C.
Wyck Godfrey
Wyck Godfrey is an American film and television producer best known for overseeing major young-adult franchises such as the Twilight series and serving as president of Paramount Motion Picture Group.
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D.
William Cornysh
William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
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E.
Walter of the Mill
Walter of the Mill was a 12th-century Archbishop of Palermo and influential ecclesiastical statesman in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily.
- 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: Robin Starveling Target entity description: Robin Starveling is a minor comic character in Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, a tailor who plays the role of Moonshine in the craftsmen’s play-within-the-play.
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A.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
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B.
Giles
Giles is a lonely, aging gay artist and Elisa's compassionate neighbor and confidant in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water."
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C.
Wyck Godfrey
Wyck Godfrey is an American film and television producer best known for overseeing major young-adult franchises such as the Twilight series and serving as president of Paramount Motion Picture Group.
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D.
William Cornysh
William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
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E.
Walter of the Mill
Walter of the Mill was a 12th-century Archbishop of Palermo and influential ecclesiastical statesman in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shakespearean character
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comic character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Starveling ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Midsummer Night's Dream ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Francis Flute
ⓘ
Nick Bottom ⓘ Peter Quince ⓘ Snug ⓘ Tom Snout ⓘ |
| carriedProp |
dog
ⓘ
lantern ⓘ thorn-bush ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| depicts | Moonshine's light ⓘ |
| employerInFiction | Theseus ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | A Midsummer Night's Dream ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I
ⓘ
linked to:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
|
| functionInPlot | comic relief ⓘ |
| genreContext | comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Early Modern English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | drama ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| memberOf |
the mechanicals
ⓘ
linked to:
play-within-the-play Pyramus and Thisbe
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| metafictionalRole | actor within the play ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Athenian ⓘ |
| occupation | tailor ⓘ |
| performsIn |
Pyramus and Thisbe
ⓘ
linked to:
play-within-the-play Pyramus and Thisbe
|
| portrays | Moonshine ⓘ |
| roleIn | play-within-a-play ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Athens ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Robin Starveling Description of subject: Robin Starveling is a minor comic character in Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, a tailor who plays the role of Moonshine in the craftsmen’s play-within-the-play.
Referenced by (4)
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