The Seven Deadly Sins of London
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The Seven Deadly Sins of London is a 1606 prose pamphlet by Thomas Dekker that satirically exposes and moralizes about the vices and corrupt social habits of early modern London.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Seven Deadly Sins of London canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4860646 — 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 Seven Deadly Sins of London Context triple: [Thomas Dekker, notableWork, The Seven Deadly Sins of London]
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A.
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins is a satirical ballet chanté by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that critiques bourgeois morality through the story of two sisters journeying across American cities.
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B.
The Dark Eyes of London
The Dark Eyes of London is a 1924 crime novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, centered on a sinister insurance fraud scheme and notorious for its blend of mystery and horror.
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C.
The Holy Thief
The Holy Thief is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century Shrewsbury and centered on the theft of a saint’s reliquary.
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D.
Brixton Lore
Brixton Lore is a cybernetically enhanced supervillain and former MI6 agent who serves as the primary antagonist in the action film "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw."
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E.
City of Roses
City of Roses is a popular nickname for Pasadena, California, reflecting its long association with rose cultivation and the famous Rose Parade.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Seven Deadly Sins of London Target entity description: The Seven Deadly Sins of London is a 1606 prose pamphlet by Thomas Dekker that satirically exposes and moralizes about the vices and corrupt social habits of early modern London.
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A.
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins is a satirical ballet chanté by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that critiques bourgeois morality through the story of two sisters journeying across American cities.
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B.
The Dark Eyes of London
The Dark Eyes of London is a 1924 crime novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, centered on a sinister insurance fraud scheme and notorious for its blend of mystery and horror.
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C.
The Holy Thief
The Holy Thief is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century Shrewsbury and centered on the theft of a saint’s reliquary.
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D.
Brixton Lore
Brixton Lore is a cybernetically enhanced supervillain and former MI6 agent who serves as the primary antagonist in the action film "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw."
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E.
City of Roses
City of Roses is a popular nickname for Pasadena, California, reflecting its long association with rose cultivation and the famous Rose Parade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
early modern English literature work
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prose pamphlet ⓘ satirical work ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
English pamphlet literature
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city comedies and urban satire ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Dekker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnConcept | seven deadly sins ⓘ |
| contemporaryMonarch | James I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| critiques |
commercial greed
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corrupt social habits of Londoners ⓘ extravagance ⓘ hypocrisy ⓘ |
| depicts | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
moralistic prose
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satire ⓘ |
| hasTitleElement | Seven deadly sins ⓘ |
| historicalContext | post-Elizabethan London ⓘ |
| intendedFunction |
moral instruction
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social satire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | English Renaissance literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Jacobean era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
moral corruption
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religious morality ⓘ social criticism ⓘ urban vice ⓘ |
| medium | printed pamphlet ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | prose exposition ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1606 ⓘ |
| religiousFramework | Christian morality ⓘ |
| settingPlace | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | early modern period ⓘ |
| targetAudience | London reading public ⓘ |
| workChronologyPosition | early 17th-century work of Thomas Dekker ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Thomas Dekker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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