Sentimentalism
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Sentimentalism is an 18th-century literary and philosophical movement that emphasized emotion, empathy, and moral feeling as central to human experience and judgment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sentimentalism canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1934062 — 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: Sentimentalism Context triple: [Sturm und Drang, relatedTo, Sentimentalism]
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Romanticism
Romanticism was a late 18th- and 19th-century artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that emphasized emotion, individualism, imagination, and a deep appreciation of nature and the sublime in reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrialization.
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Romantic nationalism
Romantic nationalism is a 19th-century ideological movement that fused romantic ideals of emotion, culture, and history with the political project of defining and legitimizing nations based on shared language, folklore, and heritage.
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American Romanticism
American Romanticism was a 19th-century literary and artistic movement in the United States that emphasized individualism, emotion, nature, and the imagination, often exploring the supernatural and the sublime.
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Romanticism and Classicism
"Romanticism and Classicism" is an influential critical essay by T. E. Hulme that contrasts Romantic and Classical approaches in literature and art, helping to lay the groundwork for modernist aesthetics.
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E.
Pre-Romanticism
Pre-Romanticism was an 18th-century literary and artistic trend that anticipated Romanticism by emphasizing emotion, individual sensibility, and a fascination with nature, melancholy, and the sublime.
- 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: Sentimentalism Target entity description: Sentimentalism is an 18th-century literary and philosophical movement that emphasized emotion, empathy, and moral feeling as central to human experience and judgment.
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A.
Romanticism
Romanticism was a late 18th- and 19th-century artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that emphasized emotion, individualism, imagination, and a deep appreciation of nature and the sublime in reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrialization.
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B.
Romantic nationalism
Romantic nationalism is a 19th-century ideological movement that fused romantic ideals of emotion, culture, and history with the political project of defining and legitimizing nations based on shared language, folklore, and heritage.
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C.
American Romanticism
American Romanticism was a 19th-century literary and artistic movement in the United States that emphasized individualism, emotion, nature, and the imagination, often exploring the supernatural and the sublime.
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D.
Romanticism and Classicism
"Romanticism and Classicism" is an influential critical essay by T. E. Hulme that contrasts Romantic and Classical approaches in literature and art, helping to lay the groundwork for modernist aesthetics.
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E.
Pre-Romanticism
Pre-Romanticism was an 18th-century literary and artistic trend that anticipated Romanticism by emphasizing emotion, individual sensibility, and a fascination with nature, melancholy, and the sublime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century movement
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aesthetic movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ philosophical movement ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
moral sense
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sensibility ⓘ sympathetic identification ⓘ tears as moral response ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
Great Britain
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surface form:
Britain
Europe ⓘ France ⓘ Germany ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
neoclassicism
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rationalism ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
excessive emotionalism
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manipulative pathos ⓘ moral shallowness ⓘ |
| developedInPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
emotion
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empathy ⓘ moral feeling ⓘ moral judgment based on feeling ⓘ sensibility ⓘ subjective experience ⓘ sympathy ⓘ |
| influenced |
19th-century realism
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Romanticism ⓘ Victorian literature ⓘ aesthetic theory ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian ethics
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European Enlightenment ⓘ
surface form:
Enlightenment
Lockean psychology ⓘ empiricism ⓘ moral sense theory ⓘ |
| relatedMovement |
Sturm und Drang
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pre-Romanticism ⓘ |
| typicalGenre |
epistolary novel
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moral tale ⓘ sentimental drama ⓘ sentimental novel ⓘ |
| typicalTheme |
charity
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domestic life ⓘ moral improvement through feeling ⓘ pity for the suffering ⓘ virtue in distress ⓘ |
| values |
benevolence
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compassion ⓘ domestic virtue ⓘ moral sensitivity ⓘ spontaneous feeling ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sentimentalism Description of subject: Sentimentalism is an 18th-century literary and philosophical movement that emphasized emotion, empathy, and moral feeling as central to human experience and judgment.
Referenced by (3)
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