Mirour de l’Omme
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Mirour de l’Omme is a lengthy Middle French moral and allegorical poem by John Gower that explores human sin, virtue, and the nature of society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mirour de l’Omme canonical | 5 |
| Mirour de l'Omme | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T658835 — 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: Mirour de l’Omme Context triple: [John Gower, notableWork, Mirour de l’Omme]
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A.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
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B.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
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C.
Jacques le fataliste et son maître
Jacques le fataliste et son maître is an 18th-century philosophical novel by Denis Diderot that playfully explores fate, free will, and storytelling through the conversations and adventures of a servant and his master.
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D.
Les Écréhous
Les Écréhous is a small, largely uninhabited group of islets and rocks in the English Channel, lying off the coast of Jersey and known for its wildlife and scenic seascapes.
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E.
Le Rêve de d’Alembert
Le Rêve de d’Alembert is a philosophical dialogue by Denis Diderot that explores materialism, consciousness, and the nature of life through an imagined dream of the mathematician Jean le Rond d’Alembert.
- 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: Mirour de l’Omme Target entity description: Mirour de l’Omme is a lengthy Middle French moral and allegorical poem by John Gower that explores human sin, virtue, and the nature of society.
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A.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
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B.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
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C.
Jacques le fataliste et son maître
Jacques le fataliste et son maître is an 18th-century philosophical novel by Denis Diderot that playfully explores fate, free will, and storytelling through the conversations and adventures of a servant and his master.
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D.
Les Écréhous
Les Écréhous is a small, largely uninhabited group of islets and rocks in the English Channel, lying off the coast of Jersey and known for its wildlife and scenic seascapes.
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E.
Le Rêve de d’Alembert
Le Rêve de d’Alembert is a philosophical dialogue by Denis Diderot that explores materialism, consciousness, and the nature of life through an imagined dream of the mathematician Jean le Rond d’Alembert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Middle French literature
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allegorical poem ⓘ moral poem ⓘ poem ⓘ |
| aim | moral instruction ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mirror of Man
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Speculum Hominis ⓘ Speculum Meditantis ⓘ |
| author | John Gower ⓘ |
| authorNationality | English ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| dateOfComposition | late 14th century ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Confessio Amantis
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Vox Clamantis ⓘ |
| form | verse ⓘ |
| genre |
allegory
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didactic literature ⓘ moral literature ⓘ |
| hasAllegoricalCharacters |
personified vices
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personified virtues ⓘ |
| influenced | later moral poetry ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian theology
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scholastic moral teaching ⓘ |
| language | Middle French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | medieval allegory ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| literaryTradition |
didactic mirror literature
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mirror for princes literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Christian morality
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human sin ⓘ nature of society ⓘ virtue ⓘ |
| meter | octosyllabic couplets ⓘ |
| originalAudience |
literate medieval laypeople
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moral and religious readers ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | John Gower’s major works ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Christianity ⓘ |
| setting | allegorical landscape ⓘ |
| structure | long narrative poem ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Christian ethics
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social order ⓘ vices and virtues ⓘ |
| topic |
ethical behavior
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human condition ⓘ social hierarchy ⓘ |
| workOf | John Gower ⓘ |
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Referenced by (6)
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Mirour de l'Omme