The First Part of Sir John Oldcastle
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The First Part of Sir John Oldcastle is an Elizabethan history play, once attributed to Shakespeare but now generally credited to other playwrights, dramatizing the life and rebellion of the Lollard leader Sir John Oldcastle.
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| The First Part of Sir John Oldcastle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11981933 — 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: The First Part of Sir John Oldcastle Context triple: [Sir John Oldcastle, subjectOf, The First Part of Sir John Oldcastle]
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A.
John Lydgate's Fall of Princes
John Lydgate's *Fall of Princes* is a lengthy 15th-century Middle English poem that recounts the tragic downfalls of famous historical and legendary figures as moral exempla of the instability of worldly fortune.
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B.
Despenser War
The Despenser War was a baronial rebellion in early 14th-century England against King Edward II’s favorites, the Despenser family, which helped pave the way for Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer’s later invasion and the king’s deposition.
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C.
The Courier’s Tragedy
The Courier’s Tragedy is a fictional Jacobean-style revenge play embedded within Thomas Pynchon’s novel "The Crying of Lot 49," serving as a key metafictional device that deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and hidden communication.
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D.
The Life and Times of Chaucer
The Life and Times of Chaucer is a biographical and historical study by John Gardner that explores the life, works, and medieval world of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
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E.
Lord Strange’s Men
Lord Strange’s Men was a prominent late 16th-century English playing company associated with the early career of William Shakespeare and active in the London theatre scene.
- 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: The First Part of Sir John Oldcastle Target entity description: The First Part of Sir John Oldcastle is an Elizabethan history play, once attributed to Shakespeare but now generally credited to other playwrights, dramatizing the life and rebellion of the Lollard leader Sir John Oldcastle.
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A.
John Lydgate's Fall of Princes
John Lydgate's *Fall of Princes* is a lengthy 15th-century Middle English poem that recounts the tragic downfalls of famous historical and legendary figures as moral exempla of the instability of worldly fortune.
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B.
Despenser War
The Despenser War was a baronial rebellion in early 14th-century England against King Edward II’s favorites, the Despenser family, which helped pave the way for Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer’s later invasion and the king’s deposition.
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C.
The Courier’s Tragedy
The Courier’s Tragedy is a fictional Jacobean-style revenge play embedded within Thomas Pynchon’s novel "The Crying of Lot 49," serving as a key metafictional device that deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and hidden communication.
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D.
The Life and Times of Chaucer
The Life and Times of Chaucer is a biographical and historical study by John Gardner that explores the life, works, and medieval world of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
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E.
Lord Strange’s Men
Lord Strange’s Men was a prominent late 16th-century English playing company associated with the early career of William Shakespeare and active in the London theatre scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sir John Oldcastle