The Lying Lover
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The Lying Lover is an early 18th-century English comedy play by Richard Steele that blends elements of wit and moral sentiment.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The Lying Lover Context triple: [Richard Steele, wrote, The Lying Lover]
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A.
The Lover’s Confession
The Lover’s Confession is a Middle English narrative poem by John Gower that explores love and morality through a series of tales framed as a lover’s dialogue with the personified figure of Genius.
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B.
The Lover
The Lover is a prominent modern Hebrew novel, best known as A. B. Yehoshua’s exploration of love, identity, and moral ambiguity in contemporary Israeli society.
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C.
The Lover
The Lover is a 1992 French romantic drama film set in colonial Vietnam, adapted from Marguerite Duras’s semi-autobiographical novel and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
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D.
The Lover
The Lover is a one-act play by Harold Pinter that explores the blurred boundaries between fantasy and reality within a seemingly conventional middle-class marriage.
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E.
The Procuress
The Procuress is a 1622 genre painting by Dutch Caravaggist Dirck van Baburen depicting a brothel scene with a leering procuress overseeing a transaction between a man and a young woman.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Lying Lover Target entity description: The Lying Lover is an early 18th-century English comedy play by Richard Steele that blends elements of wit and moral sentiment.
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A.
The Lover’s Confession
The Lover’s Confession is a Middle English narrative poem by John Gower that explores love and morality through a series of tales framed as a lover’s dialogue with the personified figure of Genius.
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B.
The Lover
The Lover is a 1992 French romantic drama film set in colonial Vietnam, adapted from Marguerite Duras’s semi-autobiographical novel and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
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C.
The Lover
The Lover is a one-act play by Harold Pinter that explores the blurred boundaries between fantasy and reality within a seemingly conventional middle-class marriage.
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D.
The Lover
The Lover is a prominent modern Hebrew novel, best known as A. B. Yehoshua’s exploration of love, identity, and moral ambiguity in contemporary Israeli society.
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E.
The Procuress
The Procuress is a 1622 genre painting by Dutch Caravaggist Dirck van Baburen depicting a brothel scene with a leering procuress overseeing a transaction between a man and a young woman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
play
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stage comedy ⓘ |
| author | Richard Steele ⓘ |
| centuryOfPremiere | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1703 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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sentimental comedy ⓘ |
| hasDramatist | Richard Steele ⓘ |
| hasElement |
moral sentiment
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wit ⓘ |
| hasForm | five-act play ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
morality
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reform of character ⓘ truth and deception ⓘ |
| influenced | development of sentimental comedy in English drama ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Restoration comedy ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | London theatre-going public ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 18th century ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| movement | sentimentalism ⓘ |
| notableFor | early example of sentimental comedy on the English stage ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | English Restoration and early 18th-century theatre tradition ⓘ |
| premiereLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| premiereTheatre | Drury Lane Theatre ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| setting | England ⓘ |
| writer | Richard Steele ⓘ |
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