The Golden Ass

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The Golden Ass is an ancient Roman novel by Apuleius that follows a man transformed into a donkey and is renowned for its blend of adventure, satire, and religious allegory.

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Label	Occurrences
The Golden Ass canonical	6

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12121528 — 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 Golden Ass
Context triple: [Apuleius, notableWork, The Golden Ass]

A. Satyricon
Satyricon is a fragmented Latin prose narrative, attributed to Petronius, that satirically portrays the excesses and moral decay of Roman society during the early Imperial period.
B. Le Satyre
Le Satyre is a poem by Victor Hugo, included in his epic collection La Légende des siècles, that explores mythic and moral themes through the figure of a satyr.
C. Deipnosophistae
Deipnosophistae is an ancient Greek work by Athenaeus that presents a wide-ranging compilation of literary, historical, and gastronomic knowledge in the form of learned banqueting conversations.
D. The Procuress
The Procuress is a 1622 genre painting by Dutch Caravaggist Dirck van Baburen depicting a brothel scene with a leering procuress overseeing a transaction between a man and a young woman.
E. Philostratus’ Imagines
Philostratus’ *Imagines* is a collection of ekphrastic descriptions of paintings, blending art criticism and imaginative storytelling in the form of rhetorical essays from the Second Sophistic period.
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 Golden Ass
Target entity description: The Golden Ass is an ancient Roman novel by Apuleius that follows a man transformed into a donkey and is renowned for its blend of adventure, satire, and religious allegory.

A. Satyricon
Satyricon is a fragmented Latin prose narrative, attributed to Petronius, that satirically portrays the excesses and moral decay of Roman society during the early Imperial period.
B. Le Satyre
Le Satyre is a poem by Victor Hugo, included in his epic collection La Légende des siècles, that explores mythic and moral themes through the figure of a satyr.
C. Deipnosophistae
Deipnosophistae is an ancient Greek work by Athenaeus that presents a wide-ranging compilation of literary, historical, and gastronomic knowledge in the form of learned banqueting conversations.
D. The Procuress
The Procuress is a 1622 genre painting by Dutch Caravaggist Dirck van Baburen depicting a brothel scene with a leering procuress overseeing a transaction between a man and a young woman.
E. Philostratus’ Imagines
Philostratus’ *Imagines* is a collection of ekphrastic descriptions of paintings, blending art criticism and imaginative storytelling in the form of rhetorical essays from the Second Sophistic period.
F. None of above. chosen