The Morris Book
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The Morris Book is a seminal early 20th-century collection and study of English Morris dance tunes and choreography compiled by folklorist and musicologist Cecil Sharp.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Morris Book canonical | 1 |
| The Morris Book, Part I | 1 |
| The Morris Book, Part II | 1 |
| The Morris Book, Part III | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9704270 — 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 Morris Book Context triple: [Cecil Sharp, notableWork, The Morris Book]
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A.
The Brown Book
The Brown Book is one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s posthumously published lecture notes that outline his transitional philosophical ideas between the Tractatus and his later work in the Philosophical Investigations.
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B.
Moortown Diary
Moortown Diary is a collection of poems by Ted Hughes that vividly chronicles life on a Devon farm, blending raw observations of nature with reflections on mortality and rural hardship.
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C.
The Book of Bebb
The Book of Bebb is a comic yet spiritually probing series of novels by Frederick Buechner centered on the eccentric evangelist Leo Bebb and his unlikely impact on those around him.
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D.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
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E.
Mother of the Book
Mother of the Book is an honorific title in Islamic tradition for Surah Al-Fatiha, the opening chapter of the Qur’an regarded as its essential core and summary.
- 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 Morris Book Target entity description: The Morris Book is a seminal early 20th-century collection and study of English Morris dance tunes and choreography compiled by folklorist and musicologist Cecil Sharp.
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A.
The Brown Book
The Brown Book is one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s posthumously published lecture notes that outline his transitional philosophical ideas between the Tractatus and his later work in the Philosophical Investigations.
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B.
Moortown Diary
Moortown Diary is a collection of poems by Ted Hughes that vividly chronicles life on a Devon farm, blending raw observations of nature with reflections on mortality and rural hardship.
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C.
The Book of Bebb
The Book of Bebb is a comic yet spiritually probing series of novels by Frederick Buechner centered on the eccentric evangelist Leo Bebb and his unlikely impact on those around him.
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D.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
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E.
Mother of the Book
Mother of the Book is an honorific title in Islamic tradition for Surah Al-Fatiha, the opening chapter of the Qur’an regarded as its essential core and summary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
dance manual ⓘ folk dance study ⓘ |
| aim | to document Morris dance tunes and choreography ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cecil Sharp House (through Sharp’s legacy)
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English folk revival ⓘ |
| author | Cecil Sharp ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Herbert C. MacIlwaine ⓘ |
| compiler | Cecil Sharp ⓘ |
| contains |
Morris dance choreography
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Morris dance tunes ⓘ dance notations ⓘ musical scores ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describedAs | seminal study of English Morris dance ⓘ |
| documentsTraditionsFrom | English villages ⓘ |
| field |
dance studies
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ethnomusicology ⓘ folklore ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Cotswold Morris
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linked to:
Morris dance
English village dance traditions ⓘ |
| genre |
folklore studies
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musicology ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
The Morris Book, Part I
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linked to:
The Morris Book
The Morris Book, Part II ⓘ
linked to:
The Morris Book
The Morris Book, Part III ⓘ
linked to:
The Morris Book
|
| includes |
historical commentary on Morris dance
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instructions for dance figures ⓘ melodic transcriptions ⓘ |
| influenced | revival of English Morris dancing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| methodology | field collection of tunes and dances ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in standardizing Morris dance practice
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systematic notation of Morris dances ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| subject |
English folk dance
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Morris dance ⓘ folk music ⓘ |
| timePeriodDocumented | late 19th century English rural traditions ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Morris dance teams
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folk dance teachers ⓘ musicologists ⓘ |
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Subject: The Morris Book Description of subject: The Morris Book is a seminal early 20th-century collection and study of English Morris dance tunes and choreography compiled by folklorist and musicologist Cecil Sharp.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Morris Book
linked to: The Morris Book
linked to: The Morris Book