The Summoner's Tale
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The Summoner's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a satirical and bawdy story that mocks corrupt friars and religious hypocrisy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Summoner's Tale canonical | 4 |
| The Summoner's Prologue | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2600616 — 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 Summoner's Tale Context triple: [The Canterbury Tales, includesTale, The Summoner's Tale]
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A.
The Tale
The Tale is a 2018 autobiographical drama film written and directed by Jennifer Fox, in which she reexamines a sexual relationship from her youth to confront the nature of memory and abuse.
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B.
Light of the Seven
"Light of the Seven" is a haunting, piano-driven orchestral piece by composer Ramin Djawadi, best known for underscoring the explosive climax of the Season 6 finale of Game of Thrones.
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C.
Soul of the World
The Soul of the World is a mystical, unifying spiritual force in Paulo Coelho’s novel *The Alchemist* that connects all beings and through which individuals can fulfill their Personal Legend.
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D.
The Tower Chronicles
The Tower Chronicles is a graphic novel series blending supernatural horror and action, following a mysterious bounty hunter who tracks down otherworldly threats.
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E.
Song of Seven
"Song of Seven" is a 1980 progressive rock solo album by Jon Anderson, blending spiritual themes with lush, melodic arrangements.
- 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 Summoner's Tale Target entity description: The Summoner's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a satirical and bawdy story that mocks corrupt friars and religious hypocrisy.
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A.
The Tale
The Tale is a 2018 autobiographical drama film written and directed by Jennifer Fox, in which she reexamines a sexual relationship from her youth to confront the nature of memory and abuse.
-
B.
Light of the Seven
"Light of the Seven" is a haunting, piano-driven orchestral piece by composer Ramin Djawadi, best known for underscoring the explosive climax of the Season 6 finale of Game of Thrones.
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C.
Soul of the World
The Soul of the World is a mystical, unifying spiritual force in Paulo Coelho’s novel *The Alchemist* that connects all beings and through which individuals can fulfill their Personal Legend.
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D.
The Tower Chronicles
The Tower Chronicles is a graphic novel series blending supernatural horror and action, following a mysterious bounty hunter who tracks down otherworldly threats.
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E.
Song of Seven
"Song of Seven" is a 1980 progressive rock solo album by Jon Anderson, blending spiritual themes with lush, melodic arrangements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canterbury Tale
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Middle English narrative poem ⓘ fabliau-like story ⓘ satirical tale ⓘ |
| antagonistCharacterType | corrupt friar ⓘ |
| author | Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ |
| centralEpisode |
friar visits a sick man to beg for money
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sick man promises friar a special gift ⓘ |
| climacticJoke | division of a fart among friars ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | The Friar's Tale ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| depicts |
abuse of confession
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exploitation of the laity ⓘ manipulative preaching ⓘ |
| genre |
bawdy story
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comic narrative ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
a friar
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a sick layman ⓘ the lord of the manor ⓘ the lord's squire ⓘ the sick man's wife ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
allegory
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comic grotesque ⓘ exaggeration ⓘ fabliau-style obscenity ⓘ irony ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Middle English
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surface form:
Middle English literature
|
| mainTheme |
anger
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anticlericalism ⓘ corruption in the Church ⓘ greed ⓘ religious hypocrisy ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| narrativeFrame | tale told by the Summoner ⓘ |
| partOf | The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| period | late 14th century ⓘ |
| relationshipToOtherTales | part of a quarrel between the Summoner and the Friar ⓘ |
| setting |
Yorkshire
ⓘ
a sick man's house ⓘ |
| targetsOfSatire |
friars
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mendicant orders ⓘ |
| teller |
Summoner
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surface form:
the Summoner
|
| tone |
comic
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mocking ⓘ scatological ⓘ |
| verseForm | rhymed couplets ⓘ |
| workInCollectionOrder | one of the later tales in the Canterbury sequence ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Summoner's Tale Description of subject: The Summoner's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a satirical and bawdy story that mocks corrupt friars and religious hypocrisy.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Summoner's Prologue