Book VI
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Book VI is the final completed installment of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem *The Faerie Queene*, chiefly concerned with the virtue of courtesy as embodied by the knight Sir Calidore.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Book VI canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7043746 — 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 VI Context triple: [The Faerie Queene, hasBook, Book VI]
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Book VI
Book VI is a section of Augustine’s theological and philosophical work *The City of God* that continues his critique of pagan religion and Roman culture.
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Book VI
Book VI is the concluding section of Nicolaus Copernicus’s seminal astronomical work *De revolutionibus orbium coelestium*, in which he further develops and applies his heliocentric model.
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Book VI
Book VI is the final section of Carl Friedrich Gauss’s *Disquisitiones Arithmeticae*, focusing on the theory of binary quadratic forms and their composition.
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D.
Book VI
Book VI of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is the section that analyzes the intellectual virtues, especially practical wisdom (phronesis), and their role in ethical decision-making.
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Book VI
Book VI is a section of Leonardo Bruni’s historical work "History of the Florentine People," continuing his humanist narrative of Florence’s political and civic development.
- 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 VI Target entity description: Book VI is the final completed installment of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem *The Faerie Queene*, chiefly concerned with the virtue of courtesy as embodied by the knight Sir Calidore.
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A.
Book VI
Book VI is the concluding section of Nicolaus Copernicus’s seminal astronomical work *De revolutionibus orbium coelestium*, in which he further develops and applies his heliocentric model.
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B.
Book VI
Book VI is one of the later sections of John Gower’s Middle English poem *Vox Clamantis*, contributing to its moral and political commentary on 14th-century English society.
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C.
Book VI
Book VI is a section of Augustine’s theological and philosophical work *The City of God* that continues his critique of pagan religion and Roman culture.
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D.
Book VI
Book VI of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is the section that analyzes the intellectual virtues, especially practical wisdom (phronesis), and their role in ethical decision-making.
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E.
Book VI
Book VI is a section of Leonardo Bruni’s historical work "History of the Florentine People," continuing his humanist narrative of Florence’s political and civic development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
poem book ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Legend of Courtesy ⓘ |
| author | Edmund Spenser ⓘ |
| centralVirtue | courtesy ⓘ |
| containsAllegoryOf |
Elizabethan courtly behavior
ⓘ
moral courtesy ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Calidore
ⓘ
Coridon ⓘ Pastorella ⓘ the Blatant Beast ⓘ
linked to:
Blatant Beast
|
| containsEpisodeType | pastoral interlude ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dedicatedContext |
court of Elizabeth I
ⓘ
linked to:
Court of Elizabeth I
|
| exploresConcept |
gentility
ⓘ
pastoral ideal ⓘ social manners ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Sir Calidore
ⓘ
linked to:
Calidore
|
| firstPublicationCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| follows | Book V ⓘ |
| genre |
allegorical poem
ⓘ
chivalric romance ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReceptionAs | key Renaissance exploration of courtesy ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeMode | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | learned Elizabethan readership ⓘ |
| hasTextualStatus | last fully completed book of The Faerie Queene ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Italian Renaissance epic
ⓘ
classical epic tradition ⓘ |
| intendedVirtueSequencePosition | sixth virtue in The Faerie Queene’s design ⓘ |
| isFinalCompletedInstallmentOf | The Faerie Queene ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | epic poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Elizabethan literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance ⓘ |
| meter |
alexandrine (ninth line of each stanza)
ⓘ
iambic pentameter (lines 1–8 of each stanza) ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Sir Calidore’s quest to subdue the Blatant Beast ⓘ |
| originalVerseForm | Spenserian stanza ⓘ |
| partOf | The Faerie Queene ⓘ |
| partOfLargerAllegory | moral and political vision of The Faerie Queene ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | 6 ⓘ |
| protagonist |
Sir Calidore
ⓘ
linked to:
Calidore
|
| setIn | Faerie Land ⓘ |
| theme | courtesy ⓘ |
| workIn | English literature canon ⓘ |
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Subject: Book VI Description of subject: Book VI is the final completed installment of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem *The Faerie Queene*, chiefly concerned with the virtue of courtesy as embodied by the knight Sir Calidore.
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