The Idle Shepherd-Boys
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"The Idle Shepherd-Boys" is a pastoral poem by William Wordsworth that reflects his characteristic focus on rural life, childhood, and the moral imagination.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Idle Shepherd-Boys canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22238384 — 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 Idle Shepherd-Boys Context triple: [Poems, in Two Volumes, hasPart, The Idle Shepherd-Boys]
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The Merry Shepherd
"The Merry Shepherd" is a short, likely pastoral-themed piano piece known from its inclusion in the pedagogical collection "Piano Book."
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B.
The Hireling Shepherd
The Hireling Shepherd is an 1851 oil painting by William Holman Hunt that exemplifies the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s vivid detail, moral symbolism, and intense naturalism in a rural English setting.
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C.
The Lonely Goatherd
"The Lonely Goatherd" is a yodel-filled, folk-style song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *The Sound of Music*, often remembered for its playful puppet-show performance in the film adaptation.
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D.
The Idle Servant
The Idle Servant is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Nicolaes Maes that depicts a domestic interior with a negligent maid, reflecting moral themes and everyday life of the Dutch Golden Age.
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E.
The Young Shepherdess
The Young Shepherdess is a 19th-century realist painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau depicting a contemplative young peasant girl in a pastoral setting, celebrated for its meticulous detail and idealized rural innocence.
- 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 Idle Shepherd-Boys Target entity description: "The Idle Shepherd-Boys" is a pastoral poem by William Wordsworth that reflects his characteristic focus on rural life, childhood, and the moral imagination.
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A.
The Merry Shepherd
"The Merry Shepherd" is a short, likely pastoral-themed piano piece known from its inclusion in the pedagogical collection "Piano Book."
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B.
The Hireling Shepherd
The Hireling Shepherd is an 1851 oil painting by William Holman Hunt that exemplifies the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s vivid detail, moral symbolism, and intense naturalism in a rural English setting.
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C.
The Lonely Goatherd
"The Lonely Goatherd" is a yodel-filled, folk-style song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *The Sound of Music*, often remembered for its playful puppet-show performance in the film adaptation.
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D.
The Idle Servant
The Idle Servant is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Nicolaes Maes that depicts a domestic interior with a negligent maid, reflecting moral themes and everyday life of the Dutch Golden Age.
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E.
The Young Shepherdess
The Young Shepherdess is a 19th-century realist painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau depicting a contemplative young peasant girl in a pastoral setting, celebrated for its meticulous detail and idealized rural innocence.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.