Sonnet 116
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Sonnet 116 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, renowned for its meditation on the steadfast and unchanging nature of true love.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sonnet 116 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110051 — 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: Sonnet 116 Context triple: [Sonnets, hasPart, Sonnet 116]
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A.
Amoretti
Amoretti is a sonnet sequence by Edmund Spenser that chronicles his courtship and eventual marriage through a series of intricately crafted love poems.
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B.
Epithalamion
Epithalamion is a celebratory marriage poem by Edmund Spenser, renowned for its intricate structure and rich imagery commemorating his own wedding.
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C.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnets from the Portuguese is a celebrated 19th-century sonnet sequence of intimate love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, renowned for its lyrical expression of romantic devotion.
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D.
Bright Star
"Bright Star" is a 2009 romantic drama film directed by Jane Campion that portrays the tragic love story between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne.
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E.
How do I love thee? (Sonnet 43)
"How do I love thee? (Sonnet 43)" is one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s most famous love sonnets, celebrated for its passionate enumeration of the speaker’s boundless love.
- 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: Sonnet 116 Target entity description: Sonnet 116 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, renowned for its meditation on the steadfast and unchanging nature of true love.
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A.
Amoretti
Amoretti is a sonnet sequence by Edmund Spenser that chronicles his courtship and eventual marriage through a series of intricately crafted love poems.
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B.
Epithalamion
Epithalamion is a celebratory marriage poem by Edmund Spenser, renowned for its intricate structure and rich imagery commemorating his own wedding.
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C.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnets from the Portuguese is a celebrated 19th-century sonnet sequence of intimate love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, renowned for its lyrical expression of romantic devotion.
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D.
Bright Star
"Bright Star" is a 2009 romantic drama film directed by Jane Campion that portrays the tragic love story between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne.
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E.
How do I love thee? (Sonnet 43)
"How do I love thee? (Sonnet 43)" is one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s most famous love sonnets, celebrated for its passionate enumeration of the speaker’s boundless love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English sonnet
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Shakespearean sonnet ⓘ poem ⓘ |
| addressedTo | an unspecified beloved ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionPeriod | 1590s ⓘ |
| asserts |
true love is not subject to time
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true love is unchanging ⓘ |
| author | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfComposition | 16th century ⓘ |
| closingCoupletFunction | speaker's assertion of truth of the poem ⓘ |
| commonlyStudiedIn | English literature courses ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | love altered by time ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| criticalReputation | one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets ⓘ |
| famousLine |
If this be error and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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It is an ever-fixed mark ⓘ Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds ⓘ Love's not Time's fool ⓘ |
| firstLine | Let me not to the marriage of true minds ⓘ |
| firstPublication | 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets ⓘ |
| form | 14-line sonnet ⓘ |
| genre | love sonnet ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | English Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Elizabethan era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metricalPattern | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| numberInSequence | 116 ⓘ |
| openingQuatrainTopic | definition of true love ⓘ |
| partOf |
Shakespeare's 154 sonnets
NERFINISHED
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Shakespeare's sonnet sequence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| poet | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstEdition | Thomas Thorpe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ⓘ |
| structure | three quatrains and a final couplet ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | idealized, steadfast love ⓘ |
| theme |
constancy in love
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marriage of true minds ⓘ time and love ⓘ true love ⓘ |
| usesDevice |
alliteration
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enjambment ⓘ metaphor ⓘ paradox ⓘ personification of Time ⓘ |
| usesMetaphor |
love as a star to every wandering bark
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love as an ever-fixed mark ⓘ |
| widelyAnthologized | true ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: Sonnet 116 Description of subject: Sonnet 116 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, renowned for its meditation on the steadfast and unchanging nature of true love.
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