Egeon
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Egeon is a Syracusan merchant and the father whose search for his lost family sets the plot of Shakespeare’s comedy "The Comedy of Errors" into motion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Egeon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13883016 — 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: Egeon Context triple: [The Comedy of Errors, mainCharacters, Egeon]
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A.
Harpagon
Harpagon is the miserly, obsessive hoarder of wealth who serves as the comic yet tyrannical central figure in Molière’s play "L’Avare" ("The Miser").
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B.
Hortensio
Hortensio is a comic suitor and friend of Petruchio in Shakespeare’s play "The Taming of the Shrew," known for his failed courtship of Bianca and his role in the play’s humorous subplots.
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C.
Alceste
Alceste is a French Baroque opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully, known for its tragédie lyrique style and collaboration with librettist Philippe Quinault.
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D.
Alceste
Alceste is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck that exemplifies his reformist approach to opera, emphasizing dramatic integrity and expressive simplicity over vocal virtuosity.
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E.
Alceste
Alceste is a character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem "The Legend of Good Women," often portrayed as a model of faithful, virtuous womanhood who helps frame the work’s celebration of loyal heroines.
- 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: Egeon Target entity description: Egeon is a Syracusan merchant and the father whose search for his lost family sets the plot of Shakespeare’s comedy "The Comedy of Errors" into motion.
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A.
Harpagon
Harpagon is the miserly, obsessive hoarder of wealth who serves as the comic yet tyrannical central figure in Molière’s play "L’Avare" ("The Miser").
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B.
Hortensio
Hortensio is a comic suitor and friend of Petruchio in Shakespeare’s play "The Taming of the Shrew," known for his failed courtship of Bianca and his role in the play’s humorous subplots.
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C.
Alceste
Alceste is a French Baroque opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully, known for its tragédie lyrique style and collaboration with librettist Philippe Quinault.
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D.
Alceste
Alceste is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck that exemplifies his reformist approach to opera, emphasizing dramatic integrity and expressive simplicity over vocal virtuosity.
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E.
Alceste
Alceste is a character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem "The Legend of Good Women," often portrayed as a model of faithful, virtuous womanhood who helps frame the work’s celebration of loyal heroines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.