Thomas Heywood
E454475
Thomas Heywood was a prolific English playwright and actor of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras, best known for his domestic dramas such as "A Woman Killed with Kindness."
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Heywood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4566315 — 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: Thomas Heywood Context triple: [Queen Henrietta's Men, performedPlayBy, Thomas Heywood]
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A.
Francis Beaumont
Francis Beaumont was an English Renaissance dramatist best known for his influential collaborations with John Fletcher on Jacobean stage comedies and tragicomedies.
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B.
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton was a prominent Jacobean playwright and satirist known for his darkly comic and morally complex plays such as "The Changeling" and "Women Beware Women."
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C.
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton was an American planter and politician from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
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D.
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton was a 17th-century English naval administrator who served in a senior bureaucratic role overseeing the Royal Navy’s administrative and logistical affairs.
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E.
John Lyly
John Lyly was an English Renaissance writer and playwright best known for his highly influential prose romances and court comedies, particularly "Euphues," which helped shape Elizabethan literary style.
- 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: Thomas Heywood Target entity description: Thomas Heywood was a prolific English playwright and actor of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras, best known for his domestic dramas such as "A Woman Killed with Kindness."
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A.
Francis Beaumont
Francis Beaumont was an English Renaissance dramatist best known for his influential collaborations with John Fletcher on Jacobean stage comedies and tragicomedies.
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B.
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton was a prominent Jacobean playwright and satirist known for his darkly comic and morally complex plays such as "The Changeling" and "Women Beware Women."
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C.
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton was an American planter and politician from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
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D.
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton was a 17th-century English naval administrator who served in a senior bureaucratic role overseeing the Royal Navy’s administrative and logistical affairs.
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E.
John Lyly
John Lyly was an English Renaissance writer and playwright best known for his highly influential prose romances and court comedies, particularly "Euphues," which helped shape Elizabethan literary style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English playwright
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actor ⓘ dramatist ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| activeIn | London theatre ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Philip Henslowe
NERFINISHED
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The Red Bull Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rose Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St James, Clerkenwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 1573 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1641 ⓘ |
| describedAs | prolific playwright ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cambridge University
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
|
| era |
Elizabethan era
NERFINISHED
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Jacobean era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| estimatedNumberOfPlaysWritten | over 200 ⓘ |
| floruit |
early 17th century
ⓘ
late 16th century ⓘ |
| genre |
city comedy
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domestic tragedy ⓘ drama ⓘ history play ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Admiral's Men
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Worcester's Men NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Woman Killed with Kindness
NERFINISHED
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An Apology for Actors NERFINISHED ⓘ If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I NERFINISHED ⓘ If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ The English Traveller NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fair Maid of the West, Part I NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fair Maid of the West, Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ The Four Prentices of London NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rape of Lucrece NERFINISHED ⓘ The Royal King and the Loyal Subject NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wise Woman of Hogsdon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfPlaysSurviving | about 20 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lincolnshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| theatricalRole | actor in his own plays ⓘ |
| wrote |
A Woman Killed with Kindness
NERFINISHED
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An Apology for Actors NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunaikeion; or, Nine Books of Various History Concerning Women NERFINISHED ⓘ If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I NERFINISHED ⓘ If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ The English Traveller NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fair Maid of the West, Part I NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fair Maid of the West, Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ The Four Prentices of London NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rape of Lucrece NERFINISHED ⓘ The Royal King and the Loyal Subject NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wise Woman of Hogsdon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteAbout | defence of acting and theatre ⓘ |
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Subject: Thomas Heywood Description of subject: Thomas Heywood was a prolific English playwright and actor of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras, best known for his domestic dramas such as "A Woman Killed with Kindness."
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