Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p There are apocryphal biographies in the first edition (1885–1900) of the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), a major work on historical biography related to the United Kingdom. In other words there is a biography that presents a life of a person asserted to have existed, but (in the light of later scholarship) the evidence for the person having lived has become regarded as tenuous or non-existent.Examples are in s:Category:Apocryphal biographies, based on the updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), where the corresponding article casts serious doubt on the DNB assertions.. }
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- Apocryphal_biographies_in_the_Dictionary_of_National_Biography abstract "There are apocryphal biographies in the first edition (1885–1900) of the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), a major work on historical biography related to the United Kingdom. In other words there is a biography that presents a life of a person asserted to have existed, but (in the light of later scholarship) the evidence for the person having lived has become regarded as tenuous or non-existent.Examples are in s:Category:Apocryphal biographies, based on the updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), where the corresponding article casts serious doubt on the DNB assertions.".