Early Modern period

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era historical period

The Early Modern period was a transformative era from roughly the late 15th to the late 18th century marked by global exploration, the rise of powerful nation-states, religious upheavals, and the beginnings of modern science and capitalism.

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All labels observed (18)

Label	Occurrences
Early modern period	701
Early Modern period canonical	77
early modern period	11
Early modern England	3
Early modern Europe	2
early modern England	2
Early Modern England	1
Early Modern English	1
Early Modern Era	1
Early Modern Europe	1
Early Modern Period	1
Early Modern Scotland	1
Early Modern Studies	1
Early Modern period of European languages	1
Early modern Britain	1
Early modern Germany	1
Early modern philosophy	1
early modern Europe	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T34800 — 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: Early Modern period
Context triple: [Age of Exploration, partOf, Early Modern period]

A. Renaissance
The Renaissance was a transformative European cultural movement from the 14th to 17th centuries marked by a revival of classical learning, flourishing arts, and major advances in science and humanist thought.
B. Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual movement in Europe and the Americas that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, profoundly shaping modern democratic and political thought.
C. Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age was a 17th-century period when the Netherlands became a leading global power in trade, art, science, and finance, marked by prosperity and cultural flourishing.
D. Stuart period
The Stuart period was a historical era in Britain marked by the rule of the Stuart dynasty, encompassing events such as the English Civil War, the Interregnum, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution.
E. Age of Exploration
The Age of Exploration was a period from the 15th to 17th centuries when European powers undertook extensive overseas voyages that led to global maritime trade networks, colonization, and the first sustained contacts between previously isolated continents.
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: Early Modern period
Target entity description: The Early Modern period was a transformative era from roughly the late 15th to the late 18th century marked by global exploration, the rise of powerful nation-states, religious upheavals, and the beginnings of modern science and capitalism.

A. Renaissance
The Renaissance was a transformative European cultural movement from the 14th to 17th centuries marked by a revival of classical learning, flourishing arts, and major advances in science and humanist thought.
B. Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual movement in Europe and the Americas that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, profoundly shaping modern democratic and political thought.
C. Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age was a 17th-century period when the Netherlands became a leading global power in trade, art, science, and finance, marked by prosperity and cultural flourishing.
D. Stuart period
The Stuart period was a historical era in Britain marked by the rule of the Stuart dynasty, encompassing events such as the English Civil War, the Interregnum, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution.
E. Age of Exploration
The Age of Exploration was a period from the 15th to 17th centuries when European powers undertook extensive overseas voyages that led to global maritime trade networks, colonization, and the first sustained contacts between previously isolated continents.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	era ⓘ historical period ⓘ
appliesTo	Americas ⓘ Europe ⓘ parts of Africa ⓘ parts of Asia ⓘ
endTime	late 18th century ⓘ
followedBy	Industrial Revolution ⓘ surface form: Industrial Age Modern era ⓘ
follows	Middle Ages ⓘ medieval period ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	Atlantic slave trade expansion ⓘ European overseas expansion ⓘ absolutist monarchies ⓘ beginnings of modern science ⓘ codification of international law beginnings ⓘ colonial empires ⓘ commercial revolution ⓘ confessionalization ⓘ cultural exchanges between continents ⓘ development of modern diplomacy ⓘ development of standing armies ⓘ early capitalism ⓘ early stock exchanges ⓘ emergence of capitalism ⓘ enclosure movements in agriculture ⓘ expansion of universities ⓘ global exploration ⓘ growth of financial institutions ⓘ growth of literacy ⓘ gunpowder warfare ⓘ intensified global trade networks ⓘ maritime exploration ⓘ mercantilism ⓘ overseas missionary activity ⓘ population growth in Europe ⓘ print culture expansion ⓘ religious upheaval ⓘ religious wars ⓘ rise of bourgeoisie ⓘ rise of nation-states ⓘ rise of secular political thought ⓘ scientific revolution ⓘ state centralization ⓘ urbanization ⓘ witch hunts in Europe ⓘ
overlapsWith	Age of Exploration ⓘ surface form: Age of Discovery Age of Exploration ⓘ Age of Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: Enlightenment Scientific Revolution ⓘ
partOf	history of the modern world ⓘ
precededBy	Middle Ages ⓘ
startTime	late 15th century ⓘ

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