Marriage à la Mode
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Marriage à la Mode is a Restoration-era tragicomedy play by John Dryden that satirizes courtly love and social manners in late 17th-century England.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marriage A-la-Mode | 1 |
| Marriage à la Mode canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5699930 — 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: Marriage à la Mode Context triple: [John Dryden, notableWork, Marriage à la Mode]
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A.
The Matchmaker
The Matchmaker is a 1954 stage comedy by Thornton Wilder that later served as the basis for the musical Hello, Dolly!, centering on the meddling but charming matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi.
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B.
Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists
Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists is a collection of interconnected short stories by Washington Irving that humorously depict English country life and customs in the early 19th century.
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C.
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Lady Windermere’s Fan is a comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes Victorian high society through witty dialogue and a plot centered on scandal, morality, and mistaken identity.
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D.
Love and Freindship
Love and Freindship is an early epistolary novella by Jane Austen, written in her youth as a satirical parody of sentimental literature.
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E.
Lady Percy
Lady Percy is a noblewoman in Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 1," known for her sharp wit, emotional strength, and poignant confrontations with her husband, Hotspur.
- 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: Marriage à la Mode Target entity description: Marriage à la Mode is a Restoration-era tragicomedy play by John Dryden that satirizes courtly love and social manners in late 17th-century England.
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A.
The Matchmaker
The Matchmaker is a 1954 stage comedy by Thornton Wilder that later served as the basis for the musical Hello, Dolly!, centering on the meddling but charming matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi.
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B.
Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists
Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists is a collection of interconnected short stories by Washington Irving that humorously depict English country life and customs in the early 19th century.
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C.
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Lady Windermere’s Fan is a comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes Victorian high society through witty dialogue and a plot centered on scandal, morality, and mistaken identity.
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D.
Love and Freindship
Love and Freindship is an early epistolary novella by Jane Austen, written in her youth as a satirical parody of sentimental literature.
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E.
Lady Percy
Lady Percy is a noblewoman in Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 1," known for her sharp wit, emotional strength, and poignant confrontations with her husband, Hotspur.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Restoration comedy
ⓘ
play ⓘ tragicomedy ⓘ |
| author | John Dryden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| dramaticConvention | use of prose and verse ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | five-act play ⓘ |
| dramaticMode | comedy of manners ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1672 ⓘ |
| firstPerformedAt | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformedBy | King's Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1673 ⓘ |
| genre |
Restoration drama
ⓘ
tragicomedy ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Doralice
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leonidas NERFINISHED ⓘ Melantha NERFINISHED ⓘ Palamede NERFINISHED ⓘ Palmyra NERFINISHED ⓘ Polydamas NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhodophil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
aristocratic marriage customs
ⓘ
court politics ⓘ fashionable affectation ⓘ |
| hasSubplotStructure | double plot ⓘ |
| hasTone |
comic
ⓘ
romantic ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Restoration of Charles II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
French courtly culture
ⓘ
Spanish drama ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | London theatre audiences ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Restoration theatre ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Restoration era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | parallel plots ⓘ |
| partOf | John Dryden's dramatic works ⓘ |
| satirizes |
courtly love
ⓘ
social manners ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 17th-century England ⓘ |
| themes |
infidelity
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marriage ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ romantic love ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| timeOfCreation | early 1670s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Marriage à la Mode Description of subject: Marriage à la Mode is a Restoration-era tragicomedy play by John Dryden that satirizes courtly love and social manners in late 17th-century England.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William Hogarth
this entity surface form:
Marriage A-la-Mode