Middle English alliterative revival
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The Middle English alliterative revival was a 14th-century resurgence of poetry in the alliterative verse style of Old English, producing works like "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Piers Plowman."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Middle English alliterative revival canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13936546 — 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: Middle English alliterative revival Context triple: [Purity, relatedTo, Middle English alliterative revival]
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Anglo-Norman literature
Anglo-Norman literature is the body of medieval writings in the Anglo-Norman dialect of Old French produced in England after the Norman Conquest, encompassing genres such as chronicles, romances, saints’ lives, and fables.
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Chaucerian tradition
The Chaucerian tradition is a late medieval English literary movement characterized by poets who emulated and developed Geoffrey Chaucer’s narrative techniques, themes, and poetic forms.
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Anglo-Saxon literature
Anglo-Saxon literature is the body of early medieval English writing in Old English, encompassing poetry, prose, religious works, and heroic narratives produced in England roughly between the 7th and 11th centuries.
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Middle English
Middle English is the historical stage of the English language spoken and written roughly between the late 11th and late 15th centuries, exemplified by works like Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales."
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Middle English vowel system
The Middle English vowel system was the set of long and short vowel sounds used in English between roughly the 12th and 15th centuries, whose structure and qualities were dramatically reorganized during the Great Vowel Shift.
- 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: Middle English alliterative revival Target entity description: The Middle English alliterative revival was a 14th-century resurgence of poetry in the alliterative verse style of Old English, producing works like "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Piers Plowman."
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A.
Anglo-Norman literature
Anglo-Norman literature is the body of medieval writings in the Anglo-Norman dialect of Old French produced in England after the Norman Conquest, encompassing genres such as chronicles, romances, saints’ lives, and fables.
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B.
Chaucerian tradition
The Chaucerian tradition is a late medieval English literary movement characterized by poets who emulated and developed Geoffrey Chaucer’s narrative techniques, themes, and poetic forms.
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C.
Anglo-Saxon literature
Anglo-Saxon literature is the body of early medieval English writing in Old English, encompassing poetry, prose, religious works, and heroic narratives produced in England roughly between the 7th and 11th centuries.
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D.
Middle English
Middle English is the historical stage of the English language spoken and written roughly between the late 11th and late 15th centuries, exemplified by works like Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales."
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E.
Middle English vowel system
The Middle English vowel system was the set of long and short vowel sounds used in English between roughly the 12th and 15th centuries, whose structure and qualities were dramatically reorganized during the Great Vowel Shift.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.