Summoner
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The Summoner is a lecherous, corrupt church officer in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales* who abuses his position to extort and intimidate others.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Summoner canonical | 1 |
| the Summoner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2600601 — 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: Summoner Context triple: [The Canterbury Tales, containsCharacter, Summoner]
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A.
Battlemage
Battlemage is the codename for Intel’s planned second-generation Arc discrete graphics architecture, intended to succeed the first-generation Alchemist GPUs.
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B.
Tristana
Tristana is a 1970 Spanish drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, known for its exploration of power, morality, and desire through the story of a young woman and her older guardian.
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C.
Jinx
Jinx is a Marvel Comics supervillain and member of the Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle, often associated with the mutant hunter Nimrod.
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D.
Warlock
Warlock is a Hearthstone hero class themed around dark magic and demonic powers, often trading its own health for powerful cards and effects.
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E.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1967 jazz album by Miles Davis that marks a key phase in his second great quintet’s innovative, post-bop explorations.
- 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: Summoner Target entity description: The Summoner is a lecherous, corrupt church officer in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales* who abuses his position to extort and intimidate others.
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A.
Battlemage
Battlemage is the codename for Intel’s planned second-generation Arc discrete graphics architecture, intended to succeed the first-generation Alchemist GPUs.
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B.
Tristana
Tristana is a 1970 Spanish drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, known for its exploration of power, morality, and desire through the story of a young woman and her older guardian.
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C.
Jinx
Jinx is a Marvel Comics supervillain and member of the Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle, often associated with the mutant hunter Nimrod.
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D.
Warlock
Warlock is a Hearthstone hero class themed around dark magic and demonic powers, often trading its own health for powerful cards and effects.
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E.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer is a 1967 jazz album by Miles Davis that marks a key phase in his second great quintet’s innovative, post-bop explorations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in The Canterbury Tales
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| affiliation | medieval Church ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| appearsInSection |
The General Prologue
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The Summoner's Tale ⓘ
surface form:
The Summoner's Prologue
The Summoner's Tale ⓘ |
| associatedTale | The Summoner's Tale ⓘ |
| createdBy | Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ |
| describedIn |
The General Prologue
ⓘ
surface form:
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
|
| languageOfWork | Middle English ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
exposes abuse of church courts
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satire of ecclesiastical corruption ⓘ |
| medium | poetry ⓘ |
| moralAlignment |
corrupt
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hypocritical ⓘ lecherous ⓘ |
| narrates | The Summoner's Tale ⓘ |
| nationality | English (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
abuses ecclesiastical authority
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accepts bribes ⓘ blackmails offenders ⓘ extorts money from people ⓘ intimidates others using church law ⓘ |
| occupation | summoner ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
morally degenerate
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physically unattractive ⓘ |
| relationship | rival of the Friar in The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity (corrupt church officer) ⓘ |
| roleInWork | pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
abuse of power
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church corruption ⓘ hypocrisy in religious officials ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | late 14th century England ⓘ |
| workGenre |
Middle English narrative poetry
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frame narrative ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Summoner Description of subject: The Summoner is a lecherous, corrupt church officer in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales* who abuses his position to extort and intimidate others.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
the Summoner