The Ploughman (plate)
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The Ploughman (plate) is one of the woodcut scenes from the late-medieval "Dance of Death" series, depicting Death confronting a peasant at his work to illustrate the universality of mortality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ploughman (plate) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10221880 — 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 Ploughman (plate) Context triple: [Dance of Death woodcuts, hasPart, The Ploughman (plate)]
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A.
The Ploughman’s Lunch
The Ploughman’s Lunch is a 1983 British drama film that satirically explores political ambition, media manipulation, and personal morality in Thatcher-era Britain.
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B.
Haggis
Haggis is a traditional Scottish savory pudding made from sheep offal, oatmeal, and spices, typically encased in a sheep’s stomach.
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C.
The Plough
The Plough was a historic village public house in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England, associated with the rural community life of Admiral Horatio Nelson’s birthplace.
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D.
Mannock
Mannock is the surname of Edward "Mick" Mannock, a renowned British First World War flying ace.
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E.
Melton Mowbray pork pie
The Melton Mowbray pork pie is a traditional English meat pie, famed for its hand-raised hot water crust pastry and uncured pork filling, and protected under EU geographical indication status.
- 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 Ploughman (plate) Target entity description: The Ploughman (plate) is one of the woodcut scenes from the late-medieval "Dance of Death" series, depicting Death confronting a peasant at his work to illustrate the universality of mortality.
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A.
The Ploughman’s Lunch
The Ploughman’s Lunch is a 1983 British drama film that satirically explores political ambition, media manipulation, and personal morality in Thatcher-era Britain.
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B.
Haggis
Haggis is a traditional Scottish savory pudding made from sheep offal, oatmeal, and spices, typically encased in a sheep’s stomach.
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C.
The Plough
The Plough was a historic village public house in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England, associated with the rural community life of Admiral Horatio Nelson’s birthplace.
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D.
Mannock
Mannock is the surname of Edward "Mick" Mannock, a renowned British First World War flying ace.
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E.
Melton Mowbray pork pie
The Melton Mowbray pork pie is a traditional English meat pie, famed for its hand-raised hot water crust pastry and uncured pork filling, and protected under EU geographical indication status.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dance of Death scene
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artwork ⓘ woodcut print ⓘ |
| artForm | printmaking ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Christian eschatology
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late-medieval Dance of Death tradition ⓘ |
| culturalContext | European late-medieval art ⓘ |
| depicts |
Death confronting a peasant
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a ploughman at work ⓘ |
| didacticFunction | reminder of the need for spiritual preparedness ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Death
ⓘ
a peasant ⓘ |
| genre |
allegorical art
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memento mori ⓘ religious art ⓘ |
| iconography |
Dance of Death
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linked to:
The English Dance of Death
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| illustrates |
moral lesson about mortality
ⓘ
that death comes to all social classes ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general medieval public ⓘ |
| medium | woodcut ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | shows death interrupting daily labor ⓘ |
| partOf |
Dance of Death series
ⓘ
linked to:
The Dance of Death
|
| period | late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| setting |
agricultural field
ⓘ
rural landscape ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | peasant life and mortality ⓘ |
| theme |
equality of all before death
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inevitability of mortality ⓘ universality of death ⓘ |
| title | The Ploughman ⓘ |
| visualMotive | skeleton personification of Death ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: The Ploughman (plate) Description of subject: The Ploughman (plate) is one of the woodcut scenes from the late-medieval "Dance of Death" series, depicting Death confronting a peasant at his work to illustrate the universality of mortality.
Referenced by (1)
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