Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy is an epic Italian poem by Dante Alighieri that narrates a visionary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and stands as one of the foundational works of Western literature.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4547494 — 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: Divine Comedy Context triple: [Il Canzoniere, relatedWork, Divine Comedy]
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A.
The Inferno
The Inferno is the passionate and raucous student section that supports the Arizona State Sun Devils football team at their home games.
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B.
The New Life of Dante
The New Life of Dante is Charles Eliot Norton's influential English translation and scholarly edition of Dante Alighieri’s early autobiographical work "La Vita Nuova," which helped introduce and interpret Dante to an English-speaking audience.
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C.
Trattatello in laude di Dante
Trattatello in laude di Dante is a 14th-century biographical and critical work that offers one of the earliest and most influential accounts of the life and poetry of Dante Alighieri.
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Inferno (novel)
"Inferno" is a 2013 mystery-thriller novel by Dan Brown featuring symbologist Robert Langdon as he races across Europe to unravel a conspiracy linked to Dante Alighieri’s "Divine Comedy" and a deadly global threat.
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E.
Dante’s Dream
Dante’s Dream is a celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicting a visionary scene from Dante Alighieri’s Vita Nuova, rich in symbolic color and medieval romanticism.
- 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: Divine Comedy Target entity description: The Divine Comedy is an epic Italian poem by Dante Alighieri that narrates a visionary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and stands as one of the foundational works of Western literature.
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A.
The Inferno
The Inferno is the passionate and raucous student section that supports the Arizona State Sun Devils football team at their home games.
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B.
The New Life of Dante
The New Life of Dante is Charles Eliot Norton's influential English translation and scholarly edition of Dante Alighieri’s early autobiographical work "La Vita Nuova," which helped introduce and interpret Dante to an English-speaking audience.
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C.
Trattatello in laude di Dante
Trattatello in laude di Dante is a 14th-century biographical and critical work that offers one of the earliest and most influential accounts of the life and poetry of Dante Alighieri.
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D.
Inferno (novel)
"Inferno" is a 2013 mystery-thriller novel by Dan Brown featuring symbologist Robert Langdon as he races across Europe to unravel a conspiracy linked to Dante Alighieri’s "Divine Comedy" and a deadly global threat.
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E.
Dante’s Dream
Dante’s Dream is a celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicting a visionary scene from Dante Alighieri’s Vita Nuova, rich in symbolic color and medieval romanticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian poem
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allegorical poem ⓘ epic poem ⓘ medieval literature ⓘ |
| alternateTitle |
La Divina Commedia
ⓘ
linked to:
Divine Comedy
|
| approximateEndOfComposition | 1320 ⓘ |
| approximateStartOfComposition | 1308 ⓘ |
| author | Dante Alighieri ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
divine justice
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journey of the soul toward God ⓘ love and grace ⓘ sin and redemption ⓘ |
| completionStatus | completed shortly before Dante's death ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| depictsAfterlifeStructure |
celestial spheres of Heaven
ⓘ
nine circles of Hell ⓘ terraces of Purgatory ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Beatrice
ⓘ
Lucifer ⓘ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux ⓘ Saint Peter ⓘ
linked to:
Apostle Peter
Virgil ⓘ |
| genre |
epic poetry
ⓘ
religious poetry ⓘ visionary literature ⓘ |
| guideInInferno | Virgil ⓘ |
| guideInParadiso | Beatrice ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Inferno
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Paradiso ⓘ Purgatorio ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
Italian language
ⓘ
Renaissance culture ⓘ Western literature ⓘ |
| laterHonorificTitle |
Divina Commedia
ⓘ
linked to:
Divine Comedy
|
| literaryDevice |
allegory
ⓘ
allusion ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
foundational work of Western literature
ⓘ
masterpiece of world literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Dante ⓘ |
| metricalForm | terza rima ⓘ |
| movement |
Medieval literature
ⓘ
Scholasticism ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| numberOfCantiche | 3 ⓘ |
| numberOfCantos | 100 ⓘ |
| numberOfCantosInInferno | 34 ⓘ |
| numberOfCantosInParadiso | 33 ⓘ |
| numberOfCantosInPurgatorio | 33 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
Italian
ⓘ
Tuscan dialect ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Commedia
ⓘ
linked to:
Comedìa
|
| philosophicalInfluence |
Aristotle
ⓘ
Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
linked to:
St. Thomas Aquinas
|
| protagonist | Dante ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Catholicism
ⓘ
Christianity ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | aba bcb cdc ded ... ⓘ |
| setting |
Hell
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Paradise ⓘ Purgatory ⓘ |
| timeOfComposition | early 14th century ⓘ |
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Subject: Divine Comedy Description of subject: The Divine Comedy is an epic Italian poem by Dante Alighieri that narrates a visionary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise and stands as one of the foundational works of Western literature.
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