The Double Dealer
E644555
The Double Dealer is a Restoration comedy play by William Congreve that satirizes hypocrisy and deceit within fashionable 17th-century English society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Double Dealer canonical | 3 |
| The Double-Dealer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7136552 — 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 Double Dealer Context triple: [William Congreve, notableWork, The Double Dealer]
-
A.
The Double Club
The Double Club is an art installation and temporary nightclub in London conceived by artist Carsten Höller that juxtaposed Congolese and Western cultures through parallel bar, restaurant, and club spaces.
-
B.
Alcochete
Alcochete is a town in Portugal, near Lisbon on the south bank of the Tagus River, known historically as the birthplace of King Manuel I and for its traditional fishing and salt industries.
-
C.
The Double
The Double is a psychoanalytic study by Otto Rank that explores the concept of the doppelgänger as a manifestation of the human psyche, particularly in relation to identity, narcissism, and the fear of death.
-
D.
The Double
The Double is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores themes of identity, madness, and the uncanny through the story of a government clerk who is tormented by his own doppelgänger.
-
E.
The Double
The Double is Edgar Martinez’s iconic 1995 American League Division Series walk-off double that became one of the most famous moments in Seattle Mariners history.
- 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 Double Dealer Target entity description: The Double Dealer is a Restoration comedy play by William Congreve that satirizes hypocrisy and deceit within fashionable 17th-century English society.
-
A.
The Double Club
The Double Club is an art installation and temporary nightclub in London conceived by artist Carsten Höller that juxtaposed Congolese and Western cultures through parallel bar, restaurant, and club spaces.
-
B.
Alcochete
Alcochete is a town in Portugal, near Lisbon on the south bank of the Tagus River, known historically as the birthplace of King Manuel I and for its traditional fishing and salt industries.
-
C.
The Double
The Double is a psychoanalytic study by Otto Rank that explores the concept of the doppelgänger as a manifestation of the human psyche, particularly in relation to identity, narcissism, and the fear of death.
-
D.
The Double
The Double is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores themes of identity, madness, and the uncanny through the story of a government clerk who is tormented by his own doppelgänger.
-
E.
The Double
The Double is Edgar Martinez’s iconic 1995 American League Division Series walk-off double that became one of the most famous moments in Seattle Mariners history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Restoration comedy
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ |
| author | William Congreve ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| depicts |
deceit
ⓘ
fashionable 17th-century English society ⓘ hypocrisy ⓘ |
| dramaticStructure | five-act play ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceCity |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| firstPerformanceCompany | United Company ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceCountry | England ⓘ |
| firstPerformancePlace |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| firstPerformanceTheatre |
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
ⓘ
linked to:
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
|
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasAntagonist | Maskwell ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Cynthia
ⓘ
Lady Plyant ⓘ Lady Touchwood ⓘ Lord Touchwood ⓘ Maskwell ⓘ Mellefont ⓘ Sir Paul Plyant ⓘ |
| hasForm |
prose dialogue
ⓘ
verse epilogue ⓘ verse prologue ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Mellefont ⓘ |
| hasTitleType | play title ⓘ |
| historicalContext | post-Restoration London theatre culture ⓘ |
| language | Early Modern English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Restoration literature ⓘ |
| movement | Restoration drama ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex plotting
ⓘ
satire of aristocratic manners ⓘ witty dialogue ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | William Congreve's dramatic works ⓘ |
| satirizes |
deceit in social relations
ⓘ
fashionable 17th-century English society ⓘ hypocrisy in high society ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 17th century ⓘ |
| theme |
appearance versus reality
ⓘ
manipulation ⓘ marital infidelity ⓘ social ambition ⓘ |
| workOf | William Congreve ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Double Dealer Description of subject: The Double Dealer is a Restoration comedy play by William Congreve that satirizes hypocrisy and deceit within fashionable 17th-century English society.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Double Dealer