Stephen Greenblatt

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Pulitzer Prize winner Shakespeare scholar human literary critic university professor

Stephen Greenblatt is an influential American literary critic and Shakespeare scholar best known as a founder of New Historicism and a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.

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Label	Occurrences
Stephen Greenblatt canonical	4

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5439837 — 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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Target entity: Stephen Greenblatt
Context triple: [Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, hasNotableHolder, Stephen Greenblatt]

A. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
B. Stephen Cornwell
Stephen Cornwell is a British film producer and screenwriter, known for co-founding The Ink Factory and producing adaptations of John le Carré’s works as well as other international thrillers.
C. A. J. Baime
A. J. Baime is an American author and journalist best known for his narrative nonfiction books on automotive history and high-stakes real-world dramas.
D. Hayden White
Hayden White was an American historian and literary theorist best known for his work on the narrative and rhetorical structures of historical writing, especially in his influential book "Metahistory."
E. Edward Hall
Edward Hall was a 16th-century English lawyer, historian, and chronicler best known for his influential Tudor-era chronicle "The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke."
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: Stephen Greenblatt
Target entity description: Stephen Greenblatt is an influential American literary critic and Shakespeare scholar best known as a founder of New Historicism and a Pulitzer Prize–winning author.

A. Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
B. Stephen Cornwell
Stephen Cornwell is a British film producer and screenwriter, known for co-founding The Ink Factory and producing adaptations of John le Carré’s works as well as other international thrillers.
C. A. J. Baime
A. J. Baime is an American author and journalist best known for his narrative nonfiction books on automotive history and high-stakes real-world dramas.
D. Hayden White
Hayden White was an American historian and literary theorist best known for his work on the narrative and rhetorical structures of historical writing, especially in his influential book "Metahistory."
E. Edward Hall
Edward Hall was a 16th-century English lawyer, historian, and chronicler best known for his influential Tudor-era chronicle "The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke."
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Pulitzer Prize winner ⓘ Shakespeare scholar ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ university professor ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD in English literature ⓘ
awardReceived	Holberg Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ James Russell Lowell Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ National Book Award for Nonfiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction NERFINISHED ⓘ
awardReceivedFor	National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" NERFINISHED ⓘ
citizenship	American ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1943-11-07 ⓘ
educatedAt	Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge Yale University ⓘ
employer	Harvard University ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
familyName	Greenblatt NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Renaissance literature ⓘ Shakespeare studies ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ theory of New Historicism ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
genre	biography ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ
givenName	Stephen NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	contemporary Shakespeare studies ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ literary theory ⓘ
knownFor	founding New Historicism ⓘ innovative readings of Shakespeare ⓘ work on Renaissance self-fashioning ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
movement	New Historicism NERFINISHED ⓘ
name	Stephen Greenblatt NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	Hamlet in Purgatory NERFINISHED ⓘ Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England NERFINISHED ⓘ The Swerve: How the World Became Modern NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics NERFINISHED ⓘ Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld	John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University → hasNotableHolder → Stephen Greenblatt ⓘ

Katherine A. Rowe → doctoralAdvisor → Stephen Greenblatt ⓘ

The New Historicism → influencedBy → Stephen Greenblatt ⓘ

subject surface form: New Historicism

The New Historicism → associatedWithScholar → Stephen Greenblatt ⓘ