Book IV
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Book IV is one of the sections of John Gower’s Middle English poem *Vox Clamantis*, contributing to its broader moral and political commentary on 14th-century English society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Book IV canonical | 1 |
| Book IV (Vox Clamantis) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3024238 — 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: Book IV Context triple: [Vox Clamantis, hasPart, Book IV]
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Book IV
Book IV is the concluding section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political treatise *The Social Contract*, where he further develops his ideas on sovereignty, civil religion, and the functioning of a legitimate political community.
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Book IV
Book IV is the concluding section of John Locke’s "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," in which he develops his influential theory of knowledge, including the nature, extent, and limits of human understanding.
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Book IV
Book IV is a section of Carl Friedrich Gauss’s seminal number theory work *Disquisitiones Arithmeticae*, focusing on properties of quadratic residues and related arithmetic concepts.
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Book IV
Book IV is a major section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s educational treatise "Emile, or On Education," focusing on the moral and religious development of the pupil.
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Book III
Book III is a component section of the Power Architecture specification that defines part of the architecture’s operational and programming model.
- 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: Book IV Target entity description: Book IV is one of the sections of John Gower’s Middle English poem *Vox Clamantis*, contributing to its broader moral and political commentary on 14th-century English society.
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A.
Book IV
Book IV is the concluding section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political treatise *The Social Contract*, where he further develops his ideas on sovereignty, civil religion, and the functioning of a legitimate political community.
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B.
Book IV
Book IV is the concluding section of John Locke’s "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," in which he develops his influential theory of knowledge, including the nature, extent, and limits of human understanding.
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C.
Book IV
Book IV is a section of Carl Friedrich Gauss’s seminal number theory work *Disquisitiones Arithmeticae*, focusing on properties of quadratic residues and related arithmetic concepts.
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D.
Book IV
Book IV is a major section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s educational treatise "Emile, or On Education," focusing on the moral and religious development of the pupil.
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E.
Book III
Book III is a component section of the Power Architecture specification that defines part of the architecture’s operational and programming model.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book section
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part of poem ⓘ |
| associatedAuthor | John Gower ⓘ |
| associatedWork | Confessio Amantis ⓘ |
| author | John Gower ⓘ |
| context | late 14th-century England ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
moral commentary on 14th-century English society
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political commentary on 14th-century English society ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Gower ⓘ |
| genre |
didactic poetry
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moral poetry ⓘ political poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm | verse ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
post-Black Death England
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reign of Richard II of England ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | allegorical poem section ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | late medieval literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 14th century ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | medieval English moral and political writing ⓘ |
| originalScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| partOf | Vox Clamantis ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Books I–VII of Vox Clamantis ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
ethical conduct
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political order ⓘ social morality ⓘ |
| workIn | Vox Clamantis ⓘ |
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: Book IV Description of subject: Book IV is one of the sections of John Gower’s Middle English poem *Vox Clamantis*, contributing to its broader moral and political commentary on 14th-century English society.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Book V (Vox Clamantis)
this entity surface form:
Book IV (Vox Clamantis)