the Reeve
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The Reeve is a choleric, sharp-witted estate manager and one of the pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, known for his thin, irritable demeanor and vengeful storytelling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| the Reeve canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11904093 — 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: the Reeve Context triple: [The Reeve's Tale, narrator, the Reeve]
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A.
The Miller
The Miller is a bawdy, drunken, and coarse pilgrim in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, best known for telling a comic and scandalous fabliau that satirizes romantic and social pretensions.
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B.
A Man of Mark
A Man of Mark is a 19th-century adventure novel by Hugh Conway, known for its blend of political intrigue, romance, and suspense in a fictional European setting.
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C.
Much the Miller's Son
Much the Miller's Son is a member of Robin Hood’s band of Merry Men, often portrayed as a loyal but somewhat simple outlaw companion in English folklore.
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D.
The Ploughman
"The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
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E.
The Cobbler
The Cobbler is a genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert, depicting a humble shoemaker at work in a detailed, everyday interior scene.
- 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: the Reeve Target entity description: The Reeve is a choleric, sharp-witted estate manager and one of the pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, known for his thin, irritable demeanor and vengeful storytelling.
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A.
The Miller
The Miller is a bawdy, drunken, and coarse pilgrim in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, best known for telling a comic and scandalous fabliau that satirizes romantic and social pretensions.
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B.
A Man of Mark
A Man of Mark is a 19th-century adventure novel by Hugh Conway, known for its blend of political intrigue, romance, and suspense in a fictional European setting.
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C.
Much the Miller's Son
Much the Miller's Son is a member of Robin Hood’s band of Merry Men, often portrayed as a loyal but somewhat simple outlaw companion in English folklore.
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D.
The Ploughman
"The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
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E.
The Cobbler
The Cobbler is a genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert, depicting a humble shoemaker at work in a detailed, everyday interior scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.