Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil (1818 poem)
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Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil is a narrative poem by John Keats that retells a tragic love story from Boccaccio’s Decameron, focusing on a young woman who mourns her murdered lover in macabre devotion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil (1818 poem) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8124755 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil (1818 poem) Context triple: [Isabella and the Pot of Basil, narrativeSource, Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil (1818 poem)]
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Alice’s Bower
Alice’s Bower is a small, picturesque island on Loch Leven in Scotland, noted for its natural beauty and tranquil setting.
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Poems (1833)
Poems (1833) is a collection of verse by English poet Hartley Coleridge, reflecting his Romantic heritage and introspective, lyrical style.
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Cowper Madonna
The Cowper Madonna is a renowned early 16th-century painting by Raphael depicting the Virgin Mary tenderly holding the Christ Child, celebrated for its serene composition and luminous color.
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Shakespeare; or, the Poet
"Shakespeare; or, the Poet" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines William Shakespeare’s genius and significance as the archetypal poet, included as one of the portraits in his collection "Representative Men."
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Rubens and Isabella Brant in a Honeysuckle Bower
Rubens and Isabella Brant in a Honeysuckle Bower is a celebrated early 17th-century double portrait by Peter Paul Rubens showing the artist and his first wife seated together in an intimate garden setting.
- 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: Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil (1818 poem) Target entity description: Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil is a narrative poem by John Keats that retells a tragic love story from Boccaccio’s Decameron, focusing on a young woman who mourns her murdered lover in macabre devotion.
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A.
Alice’s Bower
Alice’s Bower is a small, picturesque island on Loch Leven in Scotland, noted for its natural beauty and tranquil setting.
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B.
Poems (1833)
Poems (1833) is a collection of verse by English poet Hartley Coleridge, reflecting his Romantic heritage and introspective, lyrical style.
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C.
Cowper Madonna
The Cowper Madonna is a renowned early 16th-century painting by Raphael depicting the Virgin Mary tenderly holding the Christ Child, celebrated for its serene composition and luminous color.
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D.
Shakespeare; or, the Poet
"Shakespeare; or, the Poet" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines William Shakespeare’s genius and significance as the archetypal poet, included as one of the portraits in his collection "Representative Men."
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E.
Rubens and Isabella Brant in a Honeysuckle Bower
Rubens and Isabella Brant in a Honeysuckle Bower is a celebrated early 17th-century double portrait by Peter Paul Rubens showing the artist and his first wife seated together in an intimate garden setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | narrative poem ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | Isabella ⓘ |
| author | John Keats ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Decameron
ⓘ
linked to:
The Decameron
|
| basedOnStory | "Lisabetta da Messina" ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Giovanni Boccaccio ⓘ |
| centralMotif | basil pot containing Lorenzo's head ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| exploresMotif |
commerce versus affection
ⓘ
love and death intermingled ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Isabella's brothers ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | periodical ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Indicator ⓘ |
| genre |
romantic narrative poem
ⓘ
tragic love story ⓘ |
| hasArtisticAdaptationBy | John Everett Millais ⓘ |
| hasIllustratedAdaptationBy | William Holman Hunt ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Isabella ⓘ |
| influenced |
Pre-Raphaelite visual art
ⓘ
linked to:
Pre-Raphaelite art
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
narrative digression
ⓘ
sensuous imagery ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Isabella
ⓘ
Lorenzo ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrator ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1818 ⓘ |
| partOf | John Keats's poetic oeuvre ⓘ |
| period | Romantic period ⓘ |
| plotSummary |
Isabella exhumes Lorenzo's body, cuts off his head, and hides it in a pot of basil
ⓘ
Isabella loves Lorenzo, a clerk employed by her merchant brothers, who murder him to prevent their unequal marriage ⓘ Isabella tends the basil pot obsessively and wastes away in grief ⓘ Lorenzo appears to Isabella in a dream and reveals the place of his burial ⓘ |
| setting | Italy ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| theme |
class difference
ⓘ
death ⓘ family conflict ⓘ mourning ⓘ obsessive devotion ⓘ tragic love ⓘ |
| tone |
macabre
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ |
| verseForm | ottava rima ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil (1818 poem) Description of subject: Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil is a narrative poem by John Keats that retells a tragic love story from Boccaccio’s Decameron, focusing on a young woman who mourns her murdered lover in macabre devotion.
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