The King’s Men
E473758
The King’s Men was the acting company in early 17th-century England that included William Shakespeare as a leading member and performed many of his plays.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The King’s Men canonical | 2 |
| King's Men | 1 |
| Lord Strange's Men | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4860576 — 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 King’s Men Context triple: [King's Men, alsoKnownAs, The King’s Men]
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A.
Message from the King
Message from the King is a 2016 neo-noir action thriller film in which Chadwick Boseman stars as a South African man who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his sister’s death.
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B.
Household of the King
The Household of the King is the branch of the Swedish Royal Court responsible for supporting the monarch’s official duties, ceremonies, and daily functions.
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C.
The King
The King is a conman and one of the two unscrupulous drifters who travel with Huck and Jim, posing as royalty to swindle people in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
The King
The King is the iconic nickname of Elvis Presley, the pioneering American rock and roll singer and cultural figure often regarded as one of the most significant entertainers of the 20th century.
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E.
The King
"The King" is an English translation of the Arabic divine name "Al-Malik," one of the 99 Names of Allah in Islam, signifying God's absolute sovereignty and dominion over all creation.
- 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 King’s Men Target entity description: The King’s Men was the acting company in early 17th-century England that included William Shakespeare as a leading member and performed many of his plays.
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A.
Message from the King
Message from the King is a 2016 neo-noir action thriller film in which Chadwick Boseman stars as a South African man who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his sister’s death.
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B.
Household of the King
The Household of the King is the branch of the Swedish Royal Court responsible for supporting the monarch’s official duties, ceremonies, and daily functions.
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C.
The King
The King is a conman and one of the two unscrupulous drifters who travel with Huck and Jim, posing as royalty to swindle people in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
The King
The King is the iconic nickname of Elvis Presley, the pioneering American rock and roll singer and cultural figure often regarded as one of the most significant entertainers of the 20th century.
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E.
The King
The King is a 2019 historical drama film that reimagines the rise and reign of England’s King Henry V, inspired by Shakespeare’s Henriad plays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English early modern acting company
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theatre company ⓘ |
| activeInCentury |
16th century
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17th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | King James’s Men NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedInCity | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| formedFrom | re-licensed Lord Chamberlain’s Men under James I ⓘ |
| grantedTitleBy | royal patent ⓘ |
| grantedTitleInReignOf | James I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Jacobean era
NERFINISHED
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late Elizabethan era ⓘ |
| laterPlaywright |
John Fletcher
NERFINISHED
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Philip Massinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadingPlaywright | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Augustine Phillips
NERFINISHED
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Henry Condell NERFINISHED ⓘ John Heminges NERFINISHED ⓘ John Lowin NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathan Field NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Burbage NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Armin NERFINISHED ⓘ William Kempe NERFINISHED ⓘ William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRoleAssociation |
Richard Burbage as Hamlet
NERFINISHED
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Richard Burbage as King Lear NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Burbage as Othello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedAs | commercial company of shareholders ⓘ |
| patron | James I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedAt |
Blackfriars Theatre
NERFINISHED
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Court of King James I NERFINISHED ⓘ Globe Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedGenre |
comedy
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history play ⓘ tragedy ⓘ tragicomedy ⓘ |
| performedManyPlaysOf | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedWorkBy |
Ben Jonson
NERFINISHED
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Francis Beaumont NERFINISHED ⓘ John Fletcher NERFINISHED ⓘ William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | The Lord Chamberlain’s Men NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| receivedRoyalPatentInYear | 1603 ⓘ |
| shareholder |
Augustine Phillips
NERFINISHED
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Henry Condell NERFINISHED ⓘ John Heminges NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Burbage NERFINISHED ⓘ William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | royal acting company ⓘ |
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: The King’s Men Description of subject: The King’s Men was the acting company in early 17th-century England that included William Shakespeare as a leading member and performed many of his plays.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King's Men
this entity surface form:
Lord Strange's Men