The Earthly Paradise
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The Earthly Paradise is a lengthy cycle of narrative poems by William Morris that retells classical and medieval legends within a richly imagined, romantic medievalist framework.
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| The Earthly Paradise canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1730351 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Earthly Paradise Context triple: [William Morris, notableWork, The Earthly Paradise]
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A.
The New Life of Dante
The New Life of Dante is Charles Eliot Norton's influential English translation and scholarly edition of Dante Alighieri’s early autobiographical work "La Vita Nuova," which helped introduce and interpret Dante to an English-speaking audience.
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B.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is a famous and enigmatic triptych painting by Hieronymus Bosch, renowned for its fantastical, densely detailed scenes depicting paradise, earthly pleasures, and hell.
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C.
De Opificio Dei
De Opificio Dei is an early Christian theological treatise by Lactantius that reflects on the creation of the world and the nature of God through philosophical argument.
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D.
The Cantos
The Cantos is Ezra Pound’s long, unfinished modernist epic poem that weaves together history, politics, economics, and literature in a highly allusive, fragmented style.
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E.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
- 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 Earthly Paradise Target entity description: The Earthly Paradise is a lengthy cycle of narrative poems by William Morris that retells classical and medieval legends within a richly imagined, romantic medievalist framework.
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A.
The New Life of Dante
The New Life of Dante is Charles Eliot Norton's influential English translation and scholarly edition of Dante Alighieri’s early autobiographical work "La Vita Nuova," which helped introduce and interpret Dante to an English-speaking audience.
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B.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is a famous and enigmatic triptych painting by Hieronymus Bosch, renowned for its fantastical, densely detailed scenes depicting paradise, earthly pleasures, and hell.
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C.
De Opificio Dei
De Opificio Dei is an early Christian theological treatise by Lactantius that reflects on the creation of the world and the nature of God through philosophical argument.
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D.
The Cantos
The Cantos is Ezra Pound’s long, unfinished modernist epic poem that weaves together history, politics, economics, and literature in a highly allusive, fragmented style.
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E.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
narrative poem cycle
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poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | William Morris ⓘ |
| basedOn |
classical mythology
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medieval legend ⓘ |
| completedInYear | 1870 ⓘ |
| contains |
Atalanta’s Race
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The Death of Paris ⓘ The Doom of King Acrisius ⓘ The Fostering of Aslaug ⓘ The Golden Apples ⓘ The Lady of the Land ⓘ The Wonders of the East ⓘ
surface form:
The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Guðrúnarkviða ⓘ
surface form:
The Lovers of Gudrun
The Man Who Never Laughed Again ⓘ The Ring Given to Venus ⓘ myth of Cupid and Psyche ⓘ
surface form:
The Story of Cupid and Psyche
The Wanderers ⓘ The Watching of the Falcon ⓘ The Writing on the Image ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | William Morris ⓘ |
| criticalReception | highly popular in Victorian era ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1868 ⓘ |
| form | verse ⓘ |
| genre |
narrative poetry
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romantic medievalism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
epilogue
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prologue ⓘ |
| influenced |
English narrative poetry
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late Victorian medievalism ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Arts and Crafts movement
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Victorian literature ⓘ |
| meter | varied stanzaic forms ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | frame of Norse mariners seeking a deathless land ⓘ |
| notableFor |
length and scope
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synthesis of classical and medieval sources ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 1868–1870 ⓘ |
| publisher | F. S. Ellis ⓘ |
| setIn | imagined medieval world ⓘ |
| structure | frame narrative ⓘ |
| style | ornate descriptive language ⓘ |
| theme |
mortality
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nostalgia ⓘ quest for an earthly paradise ⓘ romantic love ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
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Subject: The Earthly Paradise Description of subject: The Earthly Paradise is a lengthy cycle of narrative poems by William Morris that retells classical and medieval legends within a richly imagined, romantic medievalist framework.
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