A Select Collection of Old Plays
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A Select Collection of Old Plays is an influential 18th-century multi-volume anthology that helped preserve and popularize early English drama beyond the works of Shakespeare.
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| A Select Collection of Old Plays canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12473415 — 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)
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Target entity: A Select Collection of Old Plays Context triple: [Robert Dodsley, notableWork, A Select Collection of Old Plays]
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The Dramatist
The Dramatist is the official magazine of the Dramatists Guild of America, featuring articles, interviews, and resources for playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists.
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Shakespeare; or, the Poet
"Shakespeare; or, the Poet" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines William Shakespeare’s genius and significance as the archetypal poet, included as one of the portraits in his collection "Representative Men."
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Four Plays in One
Four Plays in One is a collaborative Jacobean-era stage work consisting of four short plays by the English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.
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D.
The Travelling Players
The Travelling Players is a 1975 Greek historical drama film by Theo Angelopoulos that follows a troupe of actors touring Greece while the nation undergoes turbulent political upheavals from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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The War Plays
The War Plays is a cycle of politically charged, dystopian dramas by British playwright Edward Bond that explore the human and social consequences of war and state violence.
- 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: A Select Collection of Old Plays Target entity description: A Select Collection of Old Plays is an influential 18th-century multi-volume anthology that helped preserve and popularize early English drama beyond the works of Shakespeare.
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A.
The Dramatist
The Dramatist is the official magazine of the Dramatists Guild of America, featuring articles, interviews, and resources for playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists.
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B.
Shakespeare; or, the Poet
"Shakespeare; or, the Poet" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines William Shakespeare’s genius and significance as the archetypal poet, included as one of the portraits in his collection "Representative Men."
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C.
Four Plays in One
Four Plays in One is a collaborative Jacobean-era stage work consisting of four short plays by the English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.
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D.
The Travelling Players
The Travelling Players is a 1975 Greek historical drama film by Theo Angelopoulos that follows a troupe of actors touring Greece while the nation undergoes turbulent political upheavals from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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E.
The War Plays
The War Plays is a cycle of politically charged, dystopian dramas by British playwright Edward Bond that explore the human and social consequences of war and state violence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.