Group F of The Canterbury Tales
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Group F of The Canterbury Tales is one of the narrative groupings in Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval story collection, containing a set of tales linked by shared pilgrims and transitional material.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Group F of The Canterbury Tales canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11860167 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Group F of The Canterbury Tales Context triple: [The Franklin's Tale, collectionOrder, Group F of The Canterbury Tales]
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A.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a landmark Middle English literary work comprising a series of stories told by pilgrims on a journey to Canterbury, celebrated for its vivid characterization and social satire.
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B.
The Pardoner's Tale
"The Pardoner's Tale" is a moral exemplum within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that exposes greed and hypocrisy through the story of three rioters seeking to kill Death.
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C.
The Prioress's Tale
"The Prioress's Tale" is a deeply anti-Semitic miracle story within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, recounting the murder of a devout Christian child and his posthumous, Marian-inspired miracle.
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D.
The Reeve's Tale
"The Reeve's Tale" is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's comic fabliaux in The Canterbury Tales, featuring a vengeful reeve recounting a bawdy story of two students who outwit a dishonest miller.
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E.
The Merchant's Tale
The Merchant's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a darkly comic fabliau that satirizes marriage through the story of an old knight deceived by his young wife.
- 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: Group F of The Canterbury Tales Target entity description: Group F of The Canterbury Tales is one of the narrative groupings in Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval story collection, containing a set of tales linked by shared pilgrims and transitional material.
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A.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a landmark Middle English literary work comprising a series of stories told by pilgrims on a journey to Canterbury, celebrated for its vivid characterization and social satire.
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B.
The Pardoner's Tale
"The Pardoner's Tale" is a moral exemplum within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that exposes greed and hypocrisy through the story of three rioters seeking to kill Death.
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C.
The Prioress's Tale
"The Prioress's Tale" is a deeply anti-Semitic miracle story within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, recounting the murder of a devout Christian child and his posthumous, Marian-inspired miracle.
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D.
The Reeve's Tale
"The Reeve's Tale" is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's comic fabliaux in The Canterbury Tales, featuring a vengeful reeve recounting a bawdy story of two students who outwit a dishonest miller.
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E.
The Merchant's Tale
The Merchant's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a darkly comic fabliau that satirizes marriage through the story of an old knight deceived by his young wife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
narrative group
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section of The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeLabel |
Fragment F (in some editorial traditions)
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Fragment V ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus | standard group in many modern editions of The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| hasComponentGenre |
Breton lay (The Franklin’s Tale)
ⓘ
romance (The Squire’s Tale) ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
English medieval literature
ⓘ
Middle English literature ⓘ |
| hasEditorialFunction | groups tales by shared pilgrims and links ⓘ |
| hasFrameCharacter | The Host ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
frame narrative
ⓘ
verse narrative ⓘ |
| hasKeyManuscript |
Ellesmere Manuscript
ⓘ
linked to:
Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales
Hengwrt Manuscript ⓘ
linked to:
Hengwrt Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales
|
| hasLanguage | Middle English ⓘ |
| hasMeter | iambic pentameter (predominantly) ⓘ |
| hasModernEditor |
F. N. Robinson (as part of his edition of The Canterbury Tales)
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Larry D. Benson (Riverside Chaucer, as part of his ordering of fragments) ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
contains an unfinished tale (The Squire’s Tale)
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includes interruption of a tale by another pilgrim ⓘ shows interaction between Squire and Franklin ⓘ |
| hasOrderInCollection | varies by manuscript tradition ⓘ |
| hasOriginalMedium | manuscript ⓘ |
| hasPilgrim |
The Franklin
ⓘ
The Squire ⓘ |
| hasSettingWithinFrame | pilgrimage to Canterbury ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
courtly love
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marriage and fidelity ⓘ nobility and gentility ⓘ storytelling on pilgrimage ⓘ |
| hasTimeOfComposition | late 14th century ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalOrderLabel | Group F ⓘ |
| hasTransitionalMaterial |
interruption of The Squire’s Tale
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link between The Squire’s Tale and The Franklin’s Tale ⓘ narrative links involving the Host ⓘ |
| hasVerseForm | rhymed couplets ⓘ |
| hasWork |
The Franklin’s Tale
ⓘ
linked to:
The Franklin's Tale
The Squire’s Tale ⓘ
linked to:
The Squire's Tale
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| isStudiedIn |
Chaucer scholarship
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medieval English literature courses ⓘ |
| partOf | The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
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