The Miller's Tale
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The Miller's Tale is one of the most famous and bawdy stories in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, featuring a comic love triangle and slapstick mischief among a carpenter, his young wife, and her suitors.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Miller's Tale canonical | 3 |
| Miller’s Tale | 1 |
| The Miller's Prologue and Tale | 1 |
| The Miller’s Prologue and Tale (links) | 1 |
| The Miller’s Tale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11884221 — 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 Miller's Tale Context triple: [Reeve (The Canterbury Tales), respondsTo, The Miller's Tale]
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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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C.
The Friar's Tale
"The Friar's Tale" is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in which a friar maliciously satirizes a corrupt summoner through a moralizing story about greed, hypocrisy, and diabolic justice.
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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: The Miller's Tale Target entity description: The Miller's Tale is one of the most famous and bawdy stories in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, featuring a comic love triangle and slapstick mischief among a carpenter, his young wife, and her suitors.
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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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C.
The Friar's Tale
"The Friar's Tale" is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in which a friar maliciously satirizes a corrupt summoner through a moralizing story about greed, hypocrisy, and diabolic justice.
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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
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Reeve
linked to: The Miller's Tale
linked to: The Miller's Tale
linked to: The Miller's Tale
linked to: The Miller's Tale