The Clerk's Tale
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The Clerk's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, recounting the story of the patient and long-suffering Griselda to explore themes of obedience, virtue, and marital power.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Clerk's Tale canonical | 4 |
| Clerk’s Tale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11904169 — 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 Clerk's Tale Context triple: [The Merchant's Tale, contrastsWith, The Clerk's Tale]
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A.
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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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 Miller's Tale
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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D.
The Parson’s Tale
The Parson’s Tale is the concluding, prose sermon of Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, focusing on penitence and moral instruction rather than narrative storytelling.
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E.
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.
- 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 Clerk's Tale Target entity description: The Clerk's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, recounting the story of the patient and long-suffering Griselda to explore themes of obedience, virtue, and marital power.
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A.
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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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 Miller's Tale
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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D.
The Parson’s Tale
The Parson’s Tale is the concluding, prose sermon of Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, focusing on penitence and moral instruction rather than narrative storytelling.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Clerk's Tale