The Devil’s Dictionary

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The Devil’s Dictionary is a satirical reference work by Ambrose Bierce that offers cynical, darkly humorous definitions of common words to mock social and moral conventions.

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Label	Occurrences
The Devil’s Dictionary canonical	3
Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14530323 — 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: The Devil’s Dictionary
Context triple: [Ambrose Bierce, notableWork, The Devil’s Dictionary]

A. A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is an 18th-century slang dictionary that catalogues and explains the colloquial, often coarse expressions of English speech of its time.
B. A Mencken Chrestomathy
A Mencken Chrestomathy is a collection of essays and excerpts showcasing H. L. Mencken’s sharp wit, social criticism, and distinctive prose style.
C. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table is a series of humorous and reflective conversational essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in the 1850s.
D. Sermo Vulgaris
Sermo Vulgaris is the informal, everyday spoken form of Latin from which the Romance languages evolved.
E. The Book of Snobs
The Book of Snobs is a satirical work by William Makepeace Thackeray that humorously critiques the pretensions and social climbing of 19th-century British society.
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: The Devil’s Dictionary
Target entity description: The Devil’s Dictionary is a satirical reference work by Ambrose Bierce that offers cynical, darkly humorous definitions of common words to mock social and moral conventions.

A. A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is an 18th-century slang dictionary that catalogues and explains the colloquial, often coarse expressions of English speech of its time.
B. A Mencken Chrestomathy
A Mencken Chrestomathy is a collection of essays and excerpts showcasing H. L. Mencken’s sharp wit, social criticism, and distinctive prose style.
C. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table is a series of humorous and reflective conversational essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in the 1850s.
D. Sermo Vulgaris
Sermo Vulgaris is the informal, everyday spoken form of Latin from which the Romance languages evolved.
E. The Book of Snobs
The Book of Snobs is a satirical work by William Makepeace Thackeray that humorously critiques the pretensions and social climbing of 19th-century British society.
F. None of above. chosen