Samuel Rowley
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Samuel Rowley was an early 17th-century English playwright and actor associated with the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, known for collaborating with contemporaries such as William Rowley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Rowley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21885708 — 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: Samuel Rowley Context triple: [William Rowley, coAuthor, Samuel Rowley]
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A.
William Rowley
William Rowley was a Jacobean playwright and actor known for co-authoring several notable English Renaissance dramas with contemporaries such as Thomas Middleton and John Ford.
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B.
Richard Sadler
Richard Sadler was the 17th-century entrepreneur and impresario who established the original Sadler’s Wells entertainment venue in London.
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C.
Charles Cotton
Charles Cotton was a 17th-century English poet and writer best known for his verse and for contributing to the expanded edition of Izaak Walton’s "The Compleat Angler."
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D.
Thomas Rowley
Thomas Rowley is the protagonist of Alan Garner’s science fiction novel "Red Shift," around whom the book’s interwoven time periods and psychological tensions revolve.
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E.
John Dryden Kuser
John Dryden Kuser was an American politician and socialite from a prominent New Jersey family, known in part for his brief and troubled early marriage to philanthropist Brooke Astor.
- 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: Samuel Rowley Target entity description: Samuel Rowley was an early 17th-century English playwright and actor associated with the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, known for collaborating with contemporaries such as William Rowley.
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A.
William Rowley
William Rowley was a Jacobean playwright and actor known for co-authoring several notable English Renaissance dramas with contemporaries such as Thomas Middleton and John Ford.
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B.
Richard Sadler
Richard Sadler was the 17th-century entrepreneur and impresario who established the original Sadler’s Wells entertainment venue in London.
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C.
Charles Cotton
Charles Cotton was a 17th-century English poet and writer best known for his verse and for contributing to the expanded edition of Izaak Walton’s "The Compleat Angler."
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D.
Thomas Rowley
Thomas Rowley is the protagonist of Alan Garner’s science fiction novel "Red Shift," around whom the book’s interwoven time periods and psychological tensions revolve.
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E.
John Dryden Kuser
John Dryden Kuser was an American politician and socialite from a prominent New Jersey family, known in part for his brief and troubled early marriage to philanthropist Brooke Astor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.