Purchas his Pilgrimes
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Purchas his Pilgrimes is a massive early 17th-century English compilation of travel narratives and reports about the non-European world, edited and arranged by the clergyman and geographer Samuel Purchas.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Purchas His Pilgrimage | 1 |
| Purchas His Pilgrimes | 1 |
| Purchas his Pilgrimes canonical | 1 |
| Samuel Purchas’s Purchas His Pilgrimes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1189340 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Purchas his Pilgrimes Context triple: [Purchas, His Pilgrimage, relatedWork, Purchas his Pilgrimes]
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A.
Pilgrims
The Pilgrims were a group of English Separatists who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and established one of the first permanent European settlements in New England.
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B.
Of Plymouth Plantation
Of Plymouth Plantation is a 17th-century historical account by William Bradford that chronicles the experiences and development of the Plymouth Colony in New England.
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C.
Their Pilgrimage
"Their Pilgrimage" is a late-19th-century travel novel by American author Charles Dudley Warner that satirically portrays fashionable society through the journeys of two young protagonists.
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D.
Mourt’s Relation
Mourt’s Relation is a 1622 pamphlet chronicling the early experiences of the Plymouth colonists in New England, including their interactions with Indigenous leaders and the first Thanksgiving.
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E.
Port-Royal Grammar
Port-Royal Grammar is a 17th-century rationalist treatise on universal grammar that sought to explain the underlying logical structure common to all human languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Purchas his Pilgrimes Target entity description: Purchas his Pilgrimes is a massive early 17th-century English compilation of travel narratives and reports about the non-European world, edited and arranged by the clergyman and geographer Samuel Purchas.
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A.
Pilgrims
The Pilgrims were a group of English Separatists who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and established one of the first permanent European settlements in New England.
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B.
Of Plymouth Plantation
Of Plymouth Plantation is a 17th-century historical account by William Bradford that chronicles the experiences and development of the Plymouth Colony in New England.
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C.
Their Pilgrimage
"Their Pilgrimage" is a late-19th-century travel novel by American author Charles Dudley Warner that satirically portrays fashionable society through the journeys of two young protagonists.
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D.
Mourt’s Relation
Mourt’s Relation is a 1622 pamphlet chronicling the early experiences of the Plymouth colonists in New England, including their interactions with Indigenous leaders and the first Thanksgiving.
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E.
Port-Royal Grammar
Port-Royal Grammar is a 17th-century rationalist treatise on universal grammar that sought to explain the underlying logical structure common to all human languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
early modern travel collection
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historical source ⓘ travel literature anthology ⓘ |
| compiler | Samuel Purchas ⓘ |
| containsMaterialFrom |
colonial officials
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explorers ⓘ merchants ⓘ missionaries ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| describedBySource | early modern geographers ⓘ |
| documentType | printed book ⓘ |
| editor | Samuel Purchas ⓘ |
| editorialRoleOfSamuelPurchas | selection and arrangement of narratives ⓘ |
| editorOccupationOfSamuelPurchas |
clergyman
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geographer ⓘ |
| focusesOnRegion |
Africa
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Americas ⓘ Asia ⓘ Middle East ⓘ Oceania ⓘ |
| genre |
compilation
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geographical literature ⓘ travel writing ⓘ |
| hasPart |
explorers’ reports
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merchants’ reports ⓘ missionary accounts ⓘ travel narratives ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
age of European overseas expansion
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early Stuart England ⓘ |
| influenced | later collections of voyages and travels ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
colonial expansion
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exploration ⓘ non-European world ⓘ voyages and travels ⓘ |
| notableFor |
documentation of early English global contacts
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scale and comprehensiveness of travel accounts ⓘ |
| perspective | Eurocentric ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| relatedPerson | Richard Hakluyt ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Richard Hakluyt
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surface form:
Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes
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| sourceType | secondary compilation of primary travel accounts ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | late 15th to early 17th centuries ⓘ |
| usedAsSourceBy |
historians of colonialism
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historians of exploration ⓘ literary scholars of travel writing ⓘ |
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Subject: Purchas his Pilgrimes Description of subject: Purchas his Pilgrimes is a massive early 17th-century English compilation of travel narratives and reports about the non-European world, edited and arranged by the clergyman and geographer Samuel Purchas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Purchas, His Pilgrimage
this entity surface form:
Purchas His Pilgrimage
this entity surface form:
Purchas His Pilgrimes
A True Reportory of the Wracke, and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight
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firstPublishedIn
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Purchas his Pilgrimes
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this entity surface form:
Samuel Purchas’s Purchas His Pilgrimes