The Tender Husband
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The Tender Husband is an early 18th-century English comedy play by Sir Richard Steele that satirizes marriage, manners, and social pretensions.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Tender Husband canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7166439 — 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 Tender Husband Context triple: [Richard Steele, wrote, The Tender Husband]
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A.
The Eternal Husband
The Eternal Husband is a psychological novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores guilt, jealousy, and obsession through the tense relationship between a widower and his late wife's former lover.
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B.
The Marrying Kind
The Marrying Kind is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor that explores the ups and downs of a working-class couple’s troubled marriage.
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C.
The Marrying Man
The Marrying Man is a 1991 romantic comedy film starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, centered on a playboy whose repeated marriages to the same woman lead to a series of comedic misadventures.
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D.
The Unsuspecting Wife
"The Unsuspecting Wife" is a 1945 mystery novel by American author Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, known for its tense psychological suspense and domestic crime plot.
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E.
The Marriage Mill
The Marriage Mill is a historic nickname for Crown Point, Indiana, reflecting its past reputation as a popular destination for quick and easy weddings.
- 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 Tender Husband Target entity description: The Tender Husband is an early 18th-century English comedy play by Sir Richard Steele that satirizes marriage, manners, and social pretensions.
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A.
The Eternal Husband
The Eternal Husband is a psychological novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores guilt, jealousy, and obsession through the tense relationship between a widower and his late wife's former lover.
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B.
The Marrying Kind
The Marrying Kind is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor that explores the ups and downs of a working-class couple’s troubled marriage.
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C.
The Marrying Man
The Marrying Man is a 1991 romantic comedy film starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, centered on a playboy whose repeated marriages to the same woman lead to a series of comedic misadventures.
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D.
The Unsuspecting Wife
"The Unsuspecting Wife" is a 1945 mystery novel by American author Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, known for its tense psychological suspense and domestic crime plot.
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E.
The Marriage Mill
The Marriage Mill is a historic nickname for Crown Point, Indiana, reflecting its past reputation as a popular destination for quick and easy weddings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
play
ⓘ
stage comedy ⓘ |
| author |
Sir Richard Steele
ⓘ
linked to:
Richard Steele
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| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | comedy of manners ⓘ |
| genre |
Restoration-style comedy
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ |
| hasCreator |
Sir Richard Steele
ⓘ
linked to:
Richard Steele
|
| hasDramatist |
Sir Richard Steele
ⓘ
linked to:
Richard Steele
|
| hasForm | five-act play ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryGenre | stage comedy ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
satirical
ⓘ
witty dialogue ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | London playgoing public ⓘ |
| intendedMedium | theatre ⓘ |
| isAbout |
courtship
ⓘ
family relations ⓘ gender relations ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 18th century ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | English comedy of manners ⓘ |
| movement | Augustan literature ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | English theatrical tradition ⓘ |
| setting | England ⓘ |
| subject |
manners
ⓘ
marriage ⓘ social pretensions ⓘ |
| theme |
critique of social pretension
ⓘ
satire of marriage ⓘ satire of social manners ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 18th century ⓘ |
| writer |
Sir Richard Steele
ⓘ
linked to:
Richard Steele
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Tender Husband Description of subject: The Tender Husband is an early 18th-century English comedy play by Sir Richard Steele that satirizes marriage, manners, and social pretensions.
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