The Cook's Tale
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The Cook's Tale is an unfinished, bawdy story from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales that follows the misadventures of an apprentice who abandons honest work for a life of revelry and vice.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Cook's Tale canonical | 3 |
| Cook’s Tale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11859919 — 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 Cook's Tale Context triple: [Cook (The Canterbury Tales), associatedWith, The Cook's Tale]
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A.
The Wife of Bath's Tale
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a Middle English narrative in which a loquacious, worldly wife tells a story exploring female sovereignty, marriage, and gender roles.
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B.
The Reeve's Tale
"The Reeve's Tale" is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's comic fabliaux in The Canterbury Tales, featuring a vengeful reeve recounting a bawdy story of two students who outwit a dishonest miller.
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C.
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale is a comic beast fable within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that satirically explores themes of pride, fate, and flattery through the story of a rooster named Chauntecleer.
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D.
The Prioress's Tale
"The Prioress's Tale" is a deeply anti-Semitic miracle story within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, recounting the murder of a devout Christian child and his posthumous, Marian-inspired miracle.
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E.
The Knight's Tale
The Knight's Tale is a chivalric romance within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that recounts the rivalry of two knights for the love of a noblewoman in ancient Athens.
- 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 Cook's Tale Target entity description: The Cook's Tale is an unfinished, bawdy story from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales that follows the misadventures of an apprentice who abandons honest work for a life of revelry and vice.
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A.
The Wife of Bath's Tale
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a Middle English narrative in which a loquacious, worldly wife tells a story exploring female sovereignty, marriage, and gender roles.
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B.
The Reeve's Tale
"The Reeve's Tale" is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's comic fabliaux in The Canterbury Tales, featuring a vengeful reeve recounting a bawdy story of two students who outwit a dishonest miller.
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C.
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale is a comic beast fable within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that satirically explores themes of pride, fate, and flattery through the story of a rooster named Chauntecleer.
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D.
The Prioress's Tale
"The Prioress's Tale" is a deeply anti-Semitic miracle story within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, recounting the murder of a devout Christian child and his posthumous, Marian-inspired miracle.
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E.
The Knight's Tale
The Knight's Tale is a chivalric romance within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that recounts the rivalry of two knights for the love of a noblewoman in ancient Athens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canterbury Tale
ⓘ
Middle English narrative poem ⓘ frame tale episode ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionDate | late 14th century ⓘ |
| author | Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | part of the Chaucerian canon ⓘ |
| collectionStructurePosition | one of the early tales in the Canterbury pilgrimage sequence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| depicts |
London tavern life
ⓘ
dancing and music ⓘ gambling ⓘ sexual promiscuity ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Perkyn Revelour
ⓘ
Perkyn's host ⓘ Perkyn's host's wife ⓘ the Cook ⓘ
linked to:
The Cook
|
| frameNarrator |
the Cook
ⓘ
linked to:
The Cook
|
| genre |
bawdy tale
ⓘ
fabliau ⓘ |
| hasScholarlyDebate | authenticity and completeness ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | the Cook ⓘ |
| influencedBy | French fabliaux tradition ⓘ |
| isUnfinished | true ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | story within a frame narrative ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Middle English literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| manuscriptTradition | preserved in multiple Canterbury Tales manuscripts ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| moralStance | implicitly critical of idleness and vice ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | verse ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person frame with third-person embedded story ⓘ |
| partOf | The Canterbury Tales ⓘ |
| primaryManuscriptLanguage | Middle English ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | apprentice cook ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Miller's Tale
ⓘ
The Reeve's Tale ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | rhyming couplets ⓘ |
| setting |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| textualState | breaks off abruptly ⓘ |
| theme |
apprenticeship and misrule
ⓘ
idleness and work ⓘ urban immorality ⓘ vice and revelry ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
ⓘ
satirical ⓘ |
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Referenced by (4)
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