Sir Amorous La-Foole
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Sir Amorous La-Foole is a foppish, vain, and foolish knight who serves as a comic figure in Ben Jonson’s play *Epicœne, or The Silent Woman*.
All labels observed (1)
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| Sir Amorous La-Foole canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16450610 — 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: Sir Amorous La-Foole Context triple: [Epicœne, or The Silent Woman, mainCharacter, Sir Amorous La-Foole]
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King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid is a famous late 19th-century painting by Edward Burne-Jones depicting the legendary love of an African king for a poor beggar woman, celebrated as a masterpiece of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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B.
Tale of Sir Thopas
Tale of Sir Thopas is a deliberately comic, burlesque romance in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales that parodies chivalric adventure narratives through exaggerated clichés and doggerel verse.
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C.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves is an 18th-century comic novel that parodies chivalric romance through the misadventures of a quixotic English gentleman.
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D.
The Knight's Tale
The Knight's Tale is a chivalric romance within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that recounts the rivalry of two knights for the love of a noblewoman in ancient Athens.
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E.
The Humorous Courtier
The Humorous Courtier is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes courtly manners and affectation in early 17th-century England.
- 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: Sir Amorous La-Foole Target entity description: Sir Amorous La-Foole is a foppish, vain, and foolish knight who serves as a comic figure in Ben Jonson’s play *Epicœne, or The Silent Woman*.
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A.
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid is a famous late 19th-century painting by Edward Burne-Jones depicting the legendary love of an African king for a poor beggar woman, celebrated as a masterpiece of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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B.
Tale of Sir Thopas
Tale of Sir Thopas is a deliberately comic, burlesque romance in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales that parodies chivalric adventure narratives through exaggerated clichés and doggerel verse.
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C.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves is an 18th-century comic novel that parodies chivalric romance through the misadventures of a quixotic English gentleman.
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D.
The Knight's Tale
The Knight's Tale is a chivalric romance within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that recounts the rivalry of two knights for the love of a noblewoman in ancient Athens.
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E.
The Humorous Courtier
The Humorous Courtier is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes courtly manners and affectation in early 17th-century England.
- F. None of above. chosen
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