First Folio of Shakespeare
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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.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T716168 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Folio of Shakespeare Context triple: [Folger Shakespeare Library, hasCollectionItem, First Folio of Shakespeare]
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Shakespeare quartos
Shakespeare quartos are early, individually printed editions of William Shakespeare’s plays that provide crucial evidence about the texts’ original forms and their publication history.
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Gutenberg Bible copies
Gutenberg Bible copies are surviving exemplars of the first major book printed in Europe using movable metal type by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, prized for their historical and bibliographic significance.
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Thomas More's History of King Richard III
Thomas More's History of King Richard III is a seminal early-16th-century biographical and historical narrative that portrays Richard III as a ruthless usurper and heavily shaped the king’s enduringly negative reputation.
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Everyman
Everyman is a stock character archetype representing an ordinary, relatable person placed in extraordinary or challenging situations.
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The Eton Chronicle
The Eton Chronicle is a long-running school magazine produced by students of Eton College, featuring news, commentary, and creative writing from the school community.
- 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: First Folio of Shakespeare Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Shakespeare quartos
Shakespeare quartos are early, individually printed editions of William Shakespeare’s plays that provide crucial evidence about the texts’ original forms and their publication history.
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B.
Gutenberg Bible copies
Gutenberg Bible copies are surviving exemplars of the first major book printed in Europe using movable metal type by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, prized for their historical and bibliographic significance.
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C.
Thomas More's History of King Richard III
Thomas More's History of King Richard III is a seminal early-16th-century biographical and historical narrative that portrays Richard III as a ruthless usurper and heavily shaped the king’s enduringly negative reputation.
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D.
Everyman
Everyman is a stock character archetype representing an ordinary, relatable person placed in extraordinary or challenging situations.
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E.
The Eton Chronicle
The Eton Chronicle is a long-running school magazine produced by students of Eton College, featuring news, commentary, and creative writing from the school community.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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: First Folio of Shakespeare Description of subject: 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.
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