Tabard Inn
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The Tabard Inn is the Southwark lodging house that serves as the starting point and gathering place for the pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Canterbury Tales."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tabard Inn canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11860014 — 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: Tabard Inn Context triple: [Host Harry Bailly, residence, Tabard Inn]
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A.
Trusty Servant Inn
The Trusty Servant Inn is a traditional English country pub and inn located in the village of Minstead in the New Forest, known for its historic charm and rural setting.
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B.
The Wizard Inn
The Wizard Inn is a historic country pub and restaurant near Alderley Edge in Cheshire, England, known for its links to local wizarding folklore and scenic rural setting.
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C.
Thavie's Inn
Thavie's Inn was one of the medieval Inns of Chancery in London that served as a preparatory legal training institution associated with the Inns of Court.
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D.
The Prancing Pony
The Prancing Pony is a well-known inn in the town of Bree in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, serving as a key meeting place for travelers and pivotal characters in The Lord of the Rings.
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E.
The Dungeon Inn
The Dungeon Inn is a traditional English pub located in the village of Tottington in Greater Manchester.
- 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: Tabard Inn Target entity description: The Tabard Inn is the Southwark lodging house that serves as the starting point and gathering place for the pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Canterbury Tales."
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A.
Trusty Servant Inn
The Trusty Servant Inn is a traditional English country pub and inn located in the village of Minstead in the New Forest, known for its historic charm and rural setting.
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B.
The Wizard Inn
The Wizard Inn is a historic country pub and restaurant near Alderley Edge in Cheshire, England, known for its links to local wizarding folklore and scenic rural setting.
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C.
Thavie's Inn
Thavie's Inn was one of the medieval Inns of Chancery in London that served as a preparatory legal training institution associated with the Inns of Court.
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D.
The Prancing Pony
The Prancing Pony is a well-known inn in the town of Bree in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, serving as a key meeting place for travelers and pivotal characters in The Lord of the Rings.
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E.
The Dungeon Inn
The Dungeon Inn is a traditional English pub located in the village of Tottington in Greater Manchester.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
inn ⓘ lodging house ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacterGroup |
Chaucer’s pilgrims
ⓘ
linked to:
Chaucer the pilgrim
|
| associatedWithCityInWork |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| associatedWithTheme |
pilgrimage
ⓘ
social gathering ⓘ storytelling contest ⓘ |
| countryInWork | England ⓘ |
| creator | Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ |
| departurePointFor | pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket ⓘ |
| genreContext | medieval frame tale ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRole | home of the Host ⓘ |
| hasFunctionInWork |
place where Host proposes rules of the contest
ⓘ
place where pilgrims agree on tale-telling game ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeSignificance | starting locus of all subsequent tales ⓘ |
| hasRoleInPlot | frame setting for the storytelling contest ⓘ |
| hostedBy | Harry Bailly ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | real historical inn in Southwark (Tabard) ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Middle English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Middle English literature ⓘ |
| locatedInWork | Southwark ⓘ |
| locatedOn | south bank of the River Thames ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
ⓘ
linked to:
The General Prologue
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| partOf | frame narrative of The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| servesAs |
gathering place for the pilgrims
ⓘ
starting point of the pilgrimage to Canterbury ⓘ |
| timePeriodInWork | late 14th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tabard Inn Description of subject: The Tabard Inn is the Southwark lodging house that serves as the starting point and gathering place for the pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Canterbury Tales."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
the Host (in the frame narrative)
subject linked to:
Harry Bailly, host of the Tabard Inn