De vulgari eloquentia
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De vulgari eloquentia is a Latin treatise by Dante Alighieri that analyzes and defends the use of vernacular language in literature and poetry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| De vulgari eloquentia canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1070072 — 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: De vulgari eloquentia Context triple: [Dante Alighieri, notableWork, De vulgari eloquentia]
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A.
Sermo Vulgaris
Sermo Vulgaris is the informal, everyday spoken form of Latin from which the Romance languages evolved.
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B.
De viris illustribus
De viris illustribus is a late 4th-century biographical work by Jerome that catalogs and briefly describes notable Christian authors and their writings.
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C.
Elegantiae linguae Latinae
Elegantiae linguae Latinae is a seminal 15th-century humanist treatise that systematically codifies and refines classical Latin style and usage.
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D.
De voluptate
De voluptate is a 15th-century philosophical dialogue by Lorenzo Valla that critiques medieval scholasticism and defends an Epicurean-influenced view of pleasure as central to the good life.
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E.
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta is a seminal 14th-century Italian lyric poetry collection by Petrarch that helped shape the development of Renaissance humanism and the European sonnet tradition.
- 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: De vulgari eloquentia Target entity description: De vulgari eloquentia is a Latin treatise by Dante Alighieri that analyzes and defends the use of vernacular language in literature and poetry.
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A.
Sermo Vulgaris
Sermo Vulgaris is the informal, everyday spoken form of Latin from which the Romance languages evolved.
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B.
De viris illustribus
De viris illustribus is a late 4th-century biographical work by Jerome that catalogs and briefly describes notable Christian authors and their writings.
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C.
Elegantiae linguae Latinae
Elegantiae linguae Latinae is a seminal 15th-century humanist treatise that systematically codifies and refines classical Latin style and usage.
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D.
De voluptate
De voluptate is a 15th-century philosophical dialogue by Lorenzo Valla that critiques medieval scholasticism and defends an Epicurean-influenced view of pleasure as central to the good life.
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E.
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta is a seminal 14th-century Italian lyric poetry collection by Petrarch that helped shape the development of Renaissance humanism and the European sonnet tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
linguistic work
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literary work ⓘ treatise ⓘ |
| analyzes |
Italian dialects
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Romance languages ⓘ poetic genres ⓘ poetic meter ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Italian literature
ⓘ
Romance philology ⓘ
linked to:
Romance linguistics
history of linguistics ⓘ |
| author | Dante Alighieri ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| criticizes | exclusive use of Latin for learned writing ⓘ |
| dateWritten | early 14th century ⓘ |
| defends |
use of vernacular in serious literature
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vernacular language ⓘ |
| discusses |
appropriate styles for different poetic genres
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criteria for an illustrious vernacular ⓘ division of languages after the Tower of Babel ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
classification of Romance vernaculars
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definition of an illustrious vernacular ⓘ poetic forms ⓘ theory of style ⓘ use of vernacular in literature ⓘ |
| genre |
linguistic treatise
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literary criticism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Book I
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Book II ⓘ |
| incomplete | true ⓘ |
| influenced |
Renaissance language debates
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later linguistic thought ⓘ theory of national languages ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
medieval rhetoric
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scholastic philosophy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Latin ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Italian language
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language theory ⓘ poetry ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ stylistics ⓘ vernacular language ⓘ |
| numberOfBooksExtant | 2 ⓘ |
| numberOfBooksPlanned | 4 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| period | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| proposes | a noble vernacular for Italy ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | medieval Italy ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| workOf | Dante Alighieri ⓘ |
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