Sonnet 130
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Sonnet 130 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, noted for its ironic, realistic portrayal of the speaker’s mistress that subverts conventional poetic idealization of beauty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sonnet 130 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110053 — 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: Sonnet 130 Context triple: [Sonnets, hasPart, Sonnet 130]
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A.
Amoretti
Amoretti is a sonnet sequence by Edmund Spenser that chronicles his courtship and eventual marriage through a series of intricately crafted love poems.
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B.
La Fornarina
La Fornarina is a famous Renaissance portrait painting by Raphael, believed to depict his lover and celebrated for its sensuality and enigmatic subject.
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C.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnets from the Portuguese is a celebrated 19th-century sonnet sequence of intimate love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, renowned for its lyrical expression of romantic devotion.
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D.
The Lover’s Confession
The Lover’s Confession is a Middle English narrative poem by John Gower that explores love and morality through a series of tales framed as a lover’s dialogue with the personified figure of Genius.
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E.
A Lover's Complaint
A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare, often printed alongside his sonnets and written in the voice of a jilted young woman lamenting her betrayal in love.
- 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: Sonnet 130 Target entity description: Sonnet 130 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, noted for its ironic, realistic portrayal of the speaker’s mistress that subverts conventional poetic idealization of beauty.
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A.
Amoretti
Amoretti is a sonnet sequence by Edmund Spenser that chronicles his courtship and eventual marriage through a series of intricately crafted love poems.
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B.
La Fornarina
La Fornarina is a famous Renaissance portrait painting by Raphael, believed to depict his lover and celebrated for its sensuality and enigmatic subject.
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C.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnets from the Portuguese is a celebrated 19th-century sonnet sequence of intimate love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, renowned for its lyrical expression of romantic devotion.
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D.
The Lover’s Confession
The Lover’s Confession is a Middle English narrative poem by John Gower that explores love and morality through a series of tales framed as a lover’s dialogue with the personified figure of Genius.
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E.
A Lover's Complaint
A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare, often printed alongside his sonnets and written in the voice of a jilted young woman lamenting her betrayal in love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English sonnet
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Shakespearean sonnet ⓘ love sonnet ⓘ poem ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionDate | 1590s ⓘ |
| asserts | love does not depend on exaggerated comparisons ⓘ |
| author | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| closingAssertion | the mistress is as rare as any woman falsely compared in verse ⓘ |
| closingForm | rhyming couplet ⓘ |
| collectionPublication | 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnets ⓘ |
| contrastWith |
Petrarchan sonnets
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linked to:
Petrarchan sonnet tradition
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| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| famousFor |
ironic reversal of conventional love-sonnet imagery
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realistic portrayal of the beloved's appearance ⓘ |
| firstLine | My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ⓘ |
| focus | subversion of idealized love poetry ⓘ |
| form | 14-line sonnet ⓘ |
| genre | Renaissance lyric poetry ⓘ |
| influenceOn | later realistic love poetry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lineCount | 14 ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
antithesis
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irony ⓘ metaphor ⓘ parody ⓘ satire of Petrarchan conceits ⓘ simile ⓘ understatement ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| numberInShakespeareSonnets | 130 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Shakespeare's Fair Youth and Dark Lady sonnets collection
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linked to:
Shake-speares Sonnets (1609)
Shakespeare's sonnet sequence ⓘ
linked to:
Shake-speares Sonnets (1609)
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| period |
Elizabethan era
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linked to:
English Renaissance
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| portrayal | unidealized description of the mistress's physical features ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ⓘ |
| studiedIn | English literature curricula worldwide ⓘ |
| subject | the speaker's mistress ⓘ |
| theme |
appearance versus reality
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critique of conventional Petrarchan beauty ideals ⓘ nature of true love ⓘ realistic depiction of a mistress ⓘ |
| tone |
affectionate
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mocking of poetic clichés ⓘ wry ⓘ |
| voltaPosition | line 13 ⓘ |
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Subject: Sonnet 130 Description of subject: Sonnet 130 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, noted for its ironic, realistic portrayal of the speaker’s mistress that subverts conventional poetic idealization of beauty.
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