Sonnet 20
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Sonnet 20 is one of William Shakespeare’s most discussed sonnets, notable for its exploration of gender, beauty, and desire in the context of the Fair Youth sequence.
All labels observed (1)
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| Sonnet 20 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5320614 — 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 20 Context triple: [All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu, hasPart, Sonnet 20]
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A.
Sonnet 30
Sonnet 30 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, reflecting on themes of memory, loss, and the consoling power of friendship.
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B.
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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C.
Sonnet 60
Sonnet 60 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, meditating on the relentless passage of time and its effects on human life and beauty.
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D.
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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E.
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 29 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, known for its shift from deep despair to emotional renewal through the thought of a beloved friend.
- 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 20 Target entity description: Sonnet 20 is one of William Shakespeare’s most discussed sonnets, notable for its exploration of gender, beauty, and desire in the context of the Fair Youth sequence.
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A.
Sonnet 30
Sonnet 30 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, reflecting on themes of memory, loss, and the consoling power of friendship.
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B.
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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C.
Sonnet 60
Sonnet 60 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, meditating on the relentless passage of time and its effects on human life and beauty.
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D.
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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E.
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 29 is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, known for its shift from deep despair to emotional renewal through the thought of a beloved friend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English Renaissance literature work
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Shakespearean sonnet ⓘ poem ⓘ |
| addressee | Fair Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| addressesTopic |
distinction between spiritual and physical love
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male-male affection ⓘ social norms of gender and sexuality ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionDate | 1590s ⓘ |
| author | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionTitle | Shakespeare's Sonnets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| coupletFocus | division between emotional and physical love ⓘ |
| criticalReception | one of the most discussed of Shakespeare's sonnets ⓘ |
| firstQuatrainFocus | comparison of the youth to a woman ⓘ |
| form | three quatrains and a final couplet ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
idealized male beauty
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limits of physical consummation ⓘ tension between desire and social constraint ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lineCount | 14 ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Elizabethan era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| notablePhrase |
"master-mistress of my passion"
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"pricked thee out for women's pleasure" ⓘ |
| numberInSequence | 20 ⓘ |
| openingLine | "A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted" ⓘ |
| partOf |
Fair Youth sequence
NERFINISHED
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Shakespeare's sonnet sequence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publication | first published in the 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnets ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ⓘ |
| scholarlyDebate |
evidence for Shakespeare's sexuality
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interpretation of homoerotic elements ⓘ nature of the poet's relationship with the Fair Youth ⓘ |
| secondQuatrainFocus | youth's constancy and emotional superiority to women ⓘ |
| sequencePosition | early in the Fair Youth sonnets ⓘ |
| theme |
androgyny
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beauty ⓘ desire ⓘ friendship and love ⓘ gender ⓘ homoerotic desire ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| thirdQuatrainFocus | Nature's addition of male sexuality to the youth ⓘ |
| usesDevice |
extended metaphor
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gender inversion ⓘ personification of Nature ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Referenced by (1)
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subject surface form:
All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu