Sonnet 147
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Sonnet 147 is one of William Shakespeare’s later, darker sonnets, in which he portrays love as a destructive, feverish madness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sonnet 147 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110057 — 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 147 Context triple: [Sonnets, hasPart, Sonnet 147]
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A.
Sonnet 146
Sonnet 146 is one of William Shakespeare’s English sonnets, notable for its meditation on the soul, mortality, and the vanity of earthly concerns.
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B.
Sonnet 144
Sonnet 144 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, notable for its exploration of moral conflict and desire through the contrasting figures of a “better angel” and a “worser spirit.”
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C.
Sonnet 129
Sonnet 129 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, noted for its intense exploration of lust, guilt, and moral conflict.
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D.
Sonnet 94
Sonnet 94 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous and morally complex sonnets, often noted for its meditation on power, restraint, and corruption.
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E.
Sonnet 138
Sonnet 138 is one of William Shakespeare’s best-known sonnets, notable for its ironic exploration of love, deception, and self-delusion in a mature romantic relationship.
- 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 147 Target entity description: Sonnet 147 is one of William Shakespeare’s later, darker sonnets, in which he portrays love as a destructive, feverish madness.
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A.
Sonnet 146
Sonnet 146 is one of William Shakespeare’s English sonnets, notable for its meditation on the soul, mortality, and the vanity of earthly concerns.
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B.
Sonnet 144
Sonnet 144 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, notable for its exploration of moral conflict and desire through the contrasting figures of a “better angel” and a “worser spirit.”
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C.
Sonnet 129
Sonnet 129 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, noted for its intense exploration of lust, guilt, and moral conflict.
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D.
Sonnet 94
Sonnet 94 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous and morally complex sonnets, often noted for its meditation on power, restraint, and corruption.
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E.
Sonnet 138
Sonnet 138 is one of William Shakespeare’s best-known sonnets, notable for its ironic exploration of love, deception, and self-delusion in a mature romantic relationship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English sonnet
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Shakespearean sonnet ⓘ poem ⓘ |
| addressee | Dark Lady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionPeriod | late 16th century ⓘ |
| author | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralMetaphor | love as fever ⓘ |
| closingLine |
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
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Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ⓘ |
| collectionPosition | among the final sonnets in the Dark Lady sequence ⓘ |
| contrasts |
idealized beauty and moral blackness
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light and darkness ⓘ reason and passion ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| firstPersonSpeaker | unreliable lover ⓘ |
| form | sonnet ⓘ |
| hasCoupletFunction | delivers final moral and emotional reversal ⓘ |
| imagery |
darkness
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disease ⓘ fever ⓘ hell ⓘ madness ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Elizabethan literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| numberInSequence | 147 ⓘ |
| openingLine | My love is as a fever, longing still ⓘ |
| partOf |
Dark Lady sonnets
NERFINISHED
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Shakespearean sonnets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysBelovedAs |
dark
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morally corrupt ⓘ |
| portraysLoveAs |
diseased
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irrational ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ⓘ |
| theme |
destructive love
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irrational passion ⓘ jealousy ⓘ loss of reason ⓘ madness ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ |
| tone |
bitter
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dark ⓘ despairing ⓘ |
| workTitle | Sonnet 147 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sonnet 147 Description of subject: Sonnet 147 is one of William Shakespeare’s later, darker sonnets, in which he portrays love as a destructive, feverish madness.
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