the Nun's Priest
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The Nun's Priest is a minor clerical character in Geoffrey Chaucer's *The Canterbury Tales* who delivers a witty beast fable featuring the rooster Chauntecleer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| the Nun's Priest canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11904050 — 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: the Nun's Priest Context triple: [The Nun's Priest's Tale, narratedBy, the Nun's Priest]
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A.
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale is a comic beast fable within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that satirically explores themes of pride, fate, and flattery through the story of a rooster named Chauntecleer.
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B.
Lord Bertilak
Lord Bertilak is the lord of the castle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," later revealed to be the human identity of the Green Knight who tests Gawain's chivalry.
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Knight (The Canterbury Tales)
The Knight in *The Canterbury Tales* is a noble, chivalrous, and battle-hardened warrior who embodies the medieval ideal of honor, courtesy, and piety among Chaucer’s pilgrims.
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D.
Lady Bertilak
Lady Bertilak is a seductive and enigmatic noblewoman in the Middle English poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," whose attempts to tempt Sir Gawain test his chivalry and moral integrity.
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E.
Pardoner
The Pardoner is a corrupt, hypocritical seller of indulgences and religious relics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, notorious for preaching against greed while embodying it himself.
- 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: the Nun's Priest Target entity description: The Nun's Priest is a minor clerical character in Geoffrey Chaucer's *The Canterbury Tales* who delivers a witty beast fable featuring the rooster Chauntecleer.
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A.
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale is a comic beast fable within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that satirically explores themes of pride, fate, and flattery through the story of a rooster named Chauntecleer.
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B.
Lord Bertilak
Lord Bertilak is the lord of the castle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," later revealed to be the human identity of the Green Knight who tests Gawain's chivalry.
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C.
Knight (The Canterbury Tales)
The Knight in *The Canterbury Tales* is a noble, chivalrous, and battle-hardened warrior who embodies the medieval ideal of honor, courtesy, and piety among Chaucer’s pilgrims.
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D.
Lady Bertilak
Lady Bertilak is a seductive and enigmatic noblewoman in the Middle English poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," whose attempts to tempt Sir Gawain test his chivalry and moral integrity.
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E.
Pardoner
The Pardoner is a corrupt, hypocritical seller of indulgences and religious relics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, notorious for preaching against greed while embodying it himself.
- F. None of above. chosen
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