Nastagio degli Onesti
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Nastagio degli Onesti is a character from Giovanni Boccaccio’s *Decameron*, known for his tale involving unrequited love, a supernatural hunt, and a moral lesson about cruelty and repentance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nastagio degli Onesti canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9469669 — 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: Nastagio degli Onesti Context triple: [The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, depicts, Nastagio degli Onesti]
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A.
Ippolito Monighetti
Ippolito Monighetti was a 19th-century Russian architect of Italian origin known for his eclectic and historicist designs for imperial residences and public buildings.
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B.
Battista della Palla
Battista della Palla was a Florentine political figure and outspoken republican known for his opposition to Medici rule and his appearance as a character in Niccolò Machiavelli’s dialogue "The Art of War."
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C.
Tommaso di Sarzana
Tommaso di Sarzana, better known as Pope Nicholas V, was a 15th-century pope renowned for initiating the Renaissance papacy and significantly promoting humanist scholarship and the rebuilding of Rome.
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D.
Guido di Pietro
Guido di Pietro, better known as Fra Angelico, was an early Italian Renaissance painter and Dominican friar renowned for his devoutly spiritual frescoes and altarpieces.
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E.
Girolamo Rainaldi
Girolamo Rainaldi was a prominent 17th-century Italian architect known for his contributions to Baroque church and palace design in Rome.
- 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: Nastagio degli Onesti Target entity description: Nastagio degli Onesti is a character from Giovanni Boccaccio’s *Decameron*, known for his tale involving unrequited love, a supernatural hunt, and a moral lesson about cruelty and repentance.
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A.
Ippolito Monighetti
Ippolito Monighetti was a 19th-century Russian architect of Italian origin known for his eclectic and historicist designs for imperial residences and public buildings.
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B.
Battista della Palla
Battista della Palla was a Florentine political figure and outspoken republican known for his opposition to Medici rule and his appearance as a character in Niccolò Machiavelli’s dialogue "The Art of War."
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C.
Tommaso di Sarzana
Tommaso di Sarzana, better known as Pope Nicholas V, was a 15th-century pope renowned for initiating the Renaissance papacy and significantly promoting humanist scholarship and the rebuilding of Rome.
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D.
Guido di Pietro
Guido di Pietro, better known as Fra Angelico, was an early Italian Renaissance painter and Dominican friar renowned for his devoutly spiritual frescoes and altarpieces.
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E.
Girolamo Rainaldi
Girolamo Rainaldi was a prominent 17th-century Italian architect known for his contributions to Baroque church and palace design in Rome.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Decameron character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Decameron
ⓘ
linked to:
The Decameron
|
| appearsInWork |
Decameron, Fifth Day, Eighth Story
ⓘ
linked to:
The Decameron
|
| associatedWith |
Botticelli
ⓘ
linked to:
Sandro Botticelli
supernatural hunt ⓘ |
| belongsToTradition | medieval exemplum tradition ⓘ |
| createdBy | Giovanni Boccaccio ⓘ |
| depictedIn | Sandro Botticelli’s painting cycle "The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti" ⓘ |
| experiences | vision of hellish punishment ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Decameron universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Decameron
|
| firstAppearance |
Decameron
ⓘ
linked to:
The Decameron
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasMotive | despair over unrequited love ⓘ |
| influenced | visual arts ⓘ |
| inLoveWith | a young woman of the Traversari family ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Italian ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | novella ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
Italian Renaissance literature
ⓘ
linked to:
Italian Renaissance
|
| loveType | unrequited love ⓘ |
| moralFunction | example to frighten a cruel beloved into accepting love ⓘ |
| moralTheme |
consequences of cruelty in love
ⓘ
divine justice ⓘ |
| narratedBy | Filomena ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | didactic example about love and cruelty ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | Italian ⓘ |
| occupation | young nobleman ⓘ |
| partOf | frame narrative of the Decameron ⓘ |
| residence | Ravenna ⓘ |
| socialStatus | noble ⓘ |
| storyOutcome |
marriage to his beloved
ⓘ
moral reform of other cruel women in Ravenna ⓘ |
| storySetting |
Ravenna
ⓘ
a pine forest near Ravenna ⓘ |
| theme |
cruelty
ⓘ
moral lesson ⓘ repentance ⓘ supernatural punishment ⓘ unrequited love ⓘ |
| uses | vision of supernatural punishment to persuade his beloved ⓘ |
| witnesses | eternal hunt of a cruel lady by her former lover ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Giovanni Boccaccio ⓘ |
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