Prince of Denmark (play)
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"Prince of Denmark" is a modern prequel to Shakespeare's "Hamlet," written by Michael Lesslie and first staged at the National Theatre in London.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Prince of Denmark (play) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11568743 — 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: Prince of Denmark (play) Context triple: [Michael Lesslie, notableWork, Prince of Denmark (play)]
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A.
The Hamlet
The Hamlet is a 1940 novel by William Faulkner that inaugurates his Snopes trilogy, exploring themes of greed, social change, and rural life in the American South.
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B.
Ur-Hamlet
Ur-Hamlet is a hypothesized lost Elizabethan play, likely about the Danish prince Hamlet, that is thought to have significantly influenced Shakespeare’s *Hamlet*.
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C.
Hamlet ou les suites de la piété filiale
"Hamlet ou les suites de la piété filiale" is a short story by Jules Laforgue that offers a symbolist, ironic reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet within his collection *Moralités légendaires*.
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D.
Masbeth
Maspeth is a residential and industrial neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, known for its diverse community and mix of row houses, warehouses, and small businesses.
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E.
Shadow of Hamlet
Shadow of Hamlet is a leadership and personal development book by Richard Olivier that uses Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a framework for exploring modern organizational and ethical challenges.
- 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: Prince of Denmark (play) Target entity description: "Prince of Denmark" is a modern prequel to Shakespeare's "Hamlet," written by Michael Lesslie and first staged at the National Theatre in London.
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A.
The Hamlet
The Hamlet is a 1940 novel by William Faulkner that inaugurates his Snopes trilogy, exploring themes of greed, social change, and rural life in the American South.
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B.
Ur-Hamlet
Ur-Hamlet is a hypothesized lost Elizabethan play, likely about the Danish prince Hamlet, that is thought to have significantly influenced Shakespeare’s *Hamlet*.
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C.
Hamlet ou les suites de la piété filiale
"Hamlet ou les suites de la piété filiale" is a short story by Jules Laforgue that offers a symbolist, ironic reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet within his collection *Moralités légendaires*.
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D.
Masbeth
Maspeth is a residential and industrial neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, known for its diverse community and mix of row houses, warehouses, and small businesses.
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E.
Shadow of Hamlet
Shadow of Hamlet is a leadership and personal development book by Richard Olivier that uses Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a framework for exploring modern organizational and ethical challenges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modern play
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stage prequel ⓘ theatrical play ⓘ |
| associatedWith | National Theatre Connections programme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Michael Lesslie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | British ⓘ |
| basedOn | Hamlet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Claudius
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gertrude NERFINISHED ⓘ Hamlet NERFINISHED ⓘ Laertes NERFINISHED ⓘ Ophelia NERFINISHED ⓘ Polonius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstStagedAt | National Theatre, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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tragedy (prequel) ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Hamlet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPrequelTo | Hamlet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century theatre ⓘ |
| locationOfPremiere | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | live theatre ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a modern prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetworkOrVenue | National Theatre, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Hamlet-related works ⓘ |
| setting |
Denmark
NERFINISHED
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Elsinore Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
Prince Hamlet
NERFINISHED
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events preceding Hamlet ⓘ |
| title | Prince of Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Michael Lesslie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Prince of Denmark (play) Description of subject: "Prince of Denmark" is a modern prequel to Shakespeare's "Hamlet," written by Michael Lesslie and first staged at the National Theatre in London.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.