Tale of Sir Thopas
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Tale of Sir Thopas is a deliberately comic, burlesque romance in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales that parodies chivalric adventure narratives through exaggerated clichés and doggerel verse.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tale of Sir Thopas canonical | 2 |
| The Tale of Sir Thopas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11883969 — 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: Tale of Sir Thopas Context triple: [Chaucer the pilgrim, tellsTale, Tale of Sir Thopas]
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The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale is a comic beast fable within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that satirically explores themes of pride, fate, and flattery through the story of a rooster named Chauntecleer.
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The Knight's Tale
The Knight's Tale is a chivalric romance within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that recounts the rivalry of two knights for the love of a noblewoman in ancient Athens.
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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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King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid is a famous late 19th-century painting by Edward Burne-Jones depicting the legendary love of an African king for a poor beggar woman, celebrated as a masterpiece of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain
The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain is a Middle Scots Arthurian romance that recounts Sir Gawain’s chivalric encounter and moral testing in battle against the knight Gologras.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tale of Sir Thopas Target entity description: Tale of Sir Thopas is a deliberately comic, burlesque romance in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales that parodies chivalric adventure narratives through exaggerated clichés and doggerel verse.
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A.
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale is a comic beast fable within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that satirically explores themes of pride, fate, and flattery through the story of a rooster named Chauntecleer.
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B.
The Cook's Tale
The Cook's Tale is an unfinished, bawdy story from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales that follows the misadventures of an apprentice who abandons honest work for a life of revelry and vice.
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The Knight's Tale
The Knight's Tale is a chivalric romance within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that recounts the rivalry of two knights for the love of a noblewoman in ancient Athens.
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D.
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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E.
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid is a famous late 19th-century painting by Edward Burne-Jones depicting the legendary love of an African king for a poor beggar woman, celebrated as a masterpiece of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canterbury Tale
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Middle English poem ⓘ burlesque romance ⓘ literary parody ⓘ |
| approximateDateOfComposition | late 14th century ⓘ |
| author | Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ |
| contains |
catalogues of clothing and equipment
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invocation of the Virgin Mary ⓘ mock battle preparations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Sir Thopas
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the giant Sir Olifaunt ⓘ |
| featuresMotif | quest for an elf-queen ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Tale of Melibee ⓘ |
| form | narrative poem ⓘ |
| frameCollection | tales told on the road to Canterbury ⓘ |
| genre |
comic romance
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parody of chivalric romance ⓘ |
| includedIn | most major manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| interruptedBy | the Host ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
early example of parodying romance conventions
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illustrates Chaucer’s self-caricature as a poet ⓘ |
| meter | tail-rhyme stanza ⓘ |
| narrativeFrameSpeaker |
Chaucer (pilgrim)
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linked to:
Chaucer the pilgrim
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| narrativeMode | third-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeStatus | interrupted tale ⓘ |
| notableManuscript |
Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales
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linked to:
Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales
|
| originalLanguage | Middle English ⓘ |
| parodies |
chivalric adventure narratives
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courtly romance conventions ⓘ |
| partOf | The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| protagonist | Sir Thopas ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | tail-rhyme (aabccb, etc.) ⓘ |
| setting | Flanders ⓘ |
| structure | series of short tail-rhyme stanzas ⓘ |
| style |
deliberately clumsy
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heavily clichéd ⓘ |
| targetOfSatire | metrical romances popular in late medieval England ⓘ |
| theme |
critique of bad versification
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mockery of chivalric ideals ⓘ satire of popular romance ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
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mock-heroic ⓘ |
| verseForm | doggerel verse ⓘ |
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