Holinshed's Chronicles

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chronicle collaborative work historical work source text

Holinshed's Chronicles is a late 16th-century collaborative work of English history and legend that served as a major source for many of William Shakespeare's history plays.

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Label	Occurrences
Holinshed’s Chronicles	6
Holinshed's Chronicles canonical	4
Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles	3
Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland	1
Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland	1
Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles	1
The Chronicles of England	1
The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland	1
chronicles of the reign of Henry IV	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2642931 — 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: Holinshed's Chronicles
Context triple: [Henry IV, Part 1, source, Holinshed's Chronicles]

A. Chronicles of Jean Froissart
The Chronicles of Jean Froissart is a 14th-century historical narrative that vividly recounts the events, politics, and warfare of the early Hundred Years’ War and late medieval Europe.
B. The Eton Chronicle
The Eton Chronicle is a long-running school magazine produced by students of Eton College, featuring news, commentary, and creative writing from the school community.
C. Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century
Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century is a biographical and historical work by Sir Sidney Lee profiling prominent English figures of the 1500s and their impact on the nation’s cultural and political life.
D. Historia Regum Britanniae
Historia Regum Britanniae is a 12th-century pseudo-historical chronicle by Geoffrey of Monmouth that popularized many legendary accounts of early British kings, including the stories of King Arthur.
E. Thomas More's History of King Richard III
Thomas More's History of King Richard III is a seminal early-16th-century biographical and historical narrative that portrays Richard III as a ruthless usurper and heavily shaped the king’s enduringly negative reputation.
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: Holinshed's Chronicles
Target entity description: Holinshed's Chronicles is a late 16th-century collaborative work of English history and legend that served as a major source for many of William Shakespeare's history plays.

A. Chronicles of Jean Froissart
The Chronicles of Jean Froissart is a 14th-century historical narrative that vividly recounts the events, politics, and warfare of the early Hundred Years’ War and late medieval Europe.
B. The Eton Chronicle
The Eton Chronicle is a long-running school magazine produced by students of Eton College, featuring news, commentary, and creative writing from the school community.
C. Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century
Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century is a biographical and historical work by Sir Sidney Lee profiling prominent English figures of the 1500s and their impact on the nation’s cultural and political life.
D. Historia Regum Britanniae
Historia Regum Britanniae is a 12th-century pseudo-historical chronicle by Geoffrey of Monmouth that popularized many legendary accounts of early British kings, including the stories of King Arthur.
E. Thomas More's History of King Richard III
Thomas More's History of King Richard III is a seminal early-16th-century biographical and historical narrative that portrays Richard III as a ruthless usurper and heavily shaped the king’s enduringly negative reputation.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	chronicle ⓘ collaborative work ⓘ historical work ⓘ source text ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland ⓘ linked to: Holinshed's Chronicles
author	Raphael Holinshed ⓘ
basedOn	earlier chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland ⓘ
centuryOfPublication	16th century ⓘ
contributor	Edmund Campion ⓘ John Hooker ⓘ Richard Stanyhurst ⓘ William Harrison ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	England ⓘ
editor	Raphael Holinshed ⓘ
fullTitle	The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland ⓘ linked to: Holinshed's Chronicles
genre	chronicle ⓘ historiography ⓘ history ⓘ
hasPart	The Description of Britaine ⓘ The History of England ⓘ The History of Ireland ⓘ The History of Scotland ⓘ
influenced	Elizabethan dramatists ⓘ William Shakespeare ⓘ
influencedWork	Cymbeline ⓘ Henry IV, Part 1 ⓘ Henry IV, Part 2 ⓘ Henry V ⓘ linked to: Henry V (play) Henry VI, Part 3 ⓘ King Lear ⓘ Macbeth ⓘ Richard II ⓘ linked to: King Richard II of England Richard III ⓘ linked to: Richard III of England The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
notableFor	being a major source for Shakespeare’s history plays ⓘ its detailed narrative of British history ⓘ
placeOfPublication	London ⓘ linked to: London, England
publicationDate	1577 ⓘ 1587 ⓘ
publisher	Henry Bynneman ⓘ John Harrison ⓘ
subject	British legends ⓘ history of England ⓘ history of Ireland ⓘ history of Scotland ⓘ
timePeriodCovered	Tudor period ⓘ legendary early history of Britain ⓘ medieval history of England ⓘ

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