The Golden Ass
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The Golden Ass is an ancient Roman novel by Apuleius that follows a man transformed into a donkey and is renowned for its blend of adventure, satire, and religious allegory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Golden Ass canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12121528 — 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 Golden Ass Context triple: [Apuleius, notableWork, The Golden Ass]
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Satyricon
Satyricon is a fragmented Latin prose narrative, attributed to Petronius, that satirically portrays the excesses and moral decay of Roman society during the early Imperial period.
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B.
Le Satyre
Le Satyre is a poem by Victor Hugo, included in his epic collection La Légende des siècles, that explores mythic and moral themes through the figure of a satyr.
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C.
Deipnosophistae
Deipnosophistae is an ancient Greek work by Athenaeus that presents a wide-ranging compilation of literary, historical, and gastronomic knowledge in the form of learned banqueting conversations.
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D.
The Procuress
The Procuress is a 1622 genre painting by Dutch Caravaggist Dirck van Baburen depicting a brothel scene with a leering procuress overseeing a transaction between a man and a young woman.
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E.
Philostratus’ Imagines
Philostratus’ *Imagines* is a collection of ekphrastic descriptions of paintings, blending art criticism and imaginative storytelling in the form of rhetorical essays from the Second Sophistic period.
- 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 Golden Ass Target entity description: The Golden Ass is an ancient Roman novel by Apuleius that follows a man transformed into a donkey and is renowned for its blend of adventure, satire, and religious allegory.
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A.
Satyricon
Satyricon is a fragmented Latin prose narrative, attributed to Petronius, that satirically portrays the excesses and moral decay of Roman society during the early Imperial period.
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B.
Le Satyre
Le Satyre is a poem by Victor Hugo, included in his epic collection La Légende des siècles, that explores mythic and moral themes through the figure of a satyr.
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C.
Deipnosophistae
Deipnosophistae is an ancient Greek work by Athenaeus that presents a wide-ranging compilation of literary, historical, and gastronomic knowledge in the form of learned banqueting conversations.
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D.
The Procuress
The Procuress is a 1622 genre painting by Dutch Caravaggist Dirck van Baburen depicting a brothel scene with a leering procuress overseeing a transaction between a man and a young woman.
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E.
Philostratus’ Imagines
Philostratus’ *Imagines* is a collection of ekphrastic descriptions of paintings, blending art criticism and imaginative storytelling in the form of rhetorical essays from the Second Sophistic period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tale of the Miller and His Wife
subject surface form:
Metamorphoses by Lucius of Patrae
subject surface form:
Metamorphoses by Lucius of Patrae