The Unfortunate Traveller
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The Unfortunate Traveller is a 1594 picaresque prose narrative by Thomas Nashe that follows the violent, satirical adventures of the roguish page Jack Wilton across Renaissance Europe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Unfortunate Traveller canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7504397 — 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 Unfortunate Traveller Context triple: [Thomas Nashe, notableWork, The Unfortunate Traveller]
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A.
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of observational essays by Charles Dickens, in which he recounts his wanderings and social commentary under the persona of an “uncommercial” traveler.
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B.
The Pleasure of His Company
The Pleasure of His Company is a 1961 romantic comedy film featuring Fred Astaire as a charming, sophisticated playboy who returns to reconnect with his estranged daughter on the eve of her wedding.
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C.
The Doubtful Guest
The Doubtful Guest is a darkly whimsical illustrated storybook by Edward Gorey about a mysterious, long-term houseguest whose bizarre behavior unsettles a Victorian family.
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D.
The Leisure Seeker
The Leisure Seeker is a 2017 road-trip drama film about an elderly couple embarking on a final journey in their vintage RV, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland.
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E.
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by John Curran, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage tested during a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
- 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 Unfortunate Traveller Target entity description: The Unfortunate Traveller is a 1594 picaresque prose narrative by Thomas Nashe that follows the violent, satirical adventures of the roguish page Jack Wilton across Renaissance Europe.
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A.
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of observational essays by Charles Dickens, in which he recounts his wanderings and social commentary under the persona of an “uncommercial” traveler.
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B.
The Pleasure of His Company
The Pleasure of His Company is a 1961 romantic comedy film featuring Fred Astaire as a charming, sophisticated playboy who returns to reconnect with his estranged daughter on the eve of her wedding.
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C.
The Doubtful Guest
The Doubtful Guest is a darkly whimsical illustrated storybook by Edward Gorey about a mysterious, long-term houseguest whose bizarre behavior unsettles a Victorian family.
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D.
The Leisure Seeker
The Leisure Seeker is a 2017 road-trip drama film about an elderly couple embarking on a final journey in their vintage RV, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland.
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E.
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by John Curran, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage tested during a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Elizabethan prose fiction
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picaresque novel ⓘ prose narrative ⓘ |
| alternateClassification | romance-pamphlet ⓘ |
| approximateLength | short novel ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Nashe ⓘ |
| contains |
anti-war commentary
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religious controversy ⓘ travel narrative elements ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| depicts |
continental travel
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wars in Renaissance Europe ⓘ |
| genre |
picaresque fiction
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satirical fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Jack Wilton ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
picaro
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rogue ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
considered innovative in English prose fiction
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studied for its experimental narrative form ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | development of the English novel ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeStructure | episodic ⓘ |
| historicalContext | late Elizabethan era ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | picaresque ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Renaissance ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
digressive
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grotesque ⓘ rhetorically elaborate ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack Wilton ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of English picaresque
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violent and satirical episodes ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | English Renaissance literature ⓘ |
| printedIn |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| protagonistRole | page ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1594 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Renaissance Europe
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linked to:
European Renaissance
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| theme |
instability of identity
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religious hypocrisy ⓘ satire of courtly and military life ⓘ social criticism ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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satirical ⓘ violent ⓘ |
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Subject: The Unfortunate Traveller Description of subject: The Unfortunate Traveller is a 1594 picaresque prose narrative by Thomas Nashe that follows the violent, satirical adventures of the roguish page Jack Wilton across Renaissance Europe.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton
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hasAlternativeTitle
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The Unfortunate Traveller
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