How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
E1006045
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." is one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s most famous love sonnets, celebrated for its passionate enumeration of deep and enduring love.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12843385 — 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: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Context triple: [Sonnets from the Portuguese, notablePoem, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.]
-
A.
I’m in Love
"I’m in Love" is a 1963 Merseybeat pop single by The Fourmost, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and associated with the early Beatles era.
-
B.
Do I Love You?
"Do I Love You?" is a popular romantic song by Cole Porter, introduced in the 1939 Broadway musical *DuBarry Was a Lady* and later recorded by numerous artists.
-
C.
I Love You
"I Love You" is an R&B ballad by American singer Faith Evans that became one of her signature hits in the early 2000s.
-
D.
I Love You
"I Love You" is a popular country-pop love ballad recorded by American singer Martina McBride, released in 1999 and known for its chart-topping success.
-
E.
I Love You
"I Love You" is a 1965 baroque pop song by the English rock band The Zombies, known for its melancholic melody and harmonies and later popularized further by the band People!
- 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: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Target entity description: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." is one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s most famous love sonnets, celebrated for its passionate enumeration of deep and enduring love.
-
A.
I’m in Love
"I’m in Love" is a 1963 Merseybeat pop single by The Fourmost, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and associated with the early Beatles era.
-
B.
Do I Love You?
"Do I Love You?" is a popular romantic song by Cole Porter, introduced in the 1939 Broadway musical *DuBarry Was a Lady* and later recorded by numerous artists.
-
C.
I Love You
"I Love You" is an R&B ballad by American singer Faith Evans that became one of her signature hits in the early 2000s.
-
D.
I Love You
"I Love You" is a popular country-pop love ballad recorded by American singer Martina McBride, released in 1999 and known for its chart-topping success.
-
E.
I Love You
"I Love You" is a 1965 baroque pop song by the English rock band The Zombies, known for its melancholic melody and harmonies and later popularized further by the band People!
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
love poem
ⓘ
poem ⓘ sonnet ⓘ |
| addressedTo | beloved ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Sonnet 43 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Elizabeth Barrett Browning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralMotif | enumeration of ways of loving ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1850 ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | public domain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReputation | one of the most famous love sonnets in English literature ⓘ |
| famousLine |
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
ⓘ
I shall but love thee better after death. ⓘ |
| firstLine | How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ⓘ |
| focus | personal declaration of love ⓘ |
| frequentlyStudiedIn | English literature courses ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| imagery |
cosmic imagery
ⓘ
religious imagery ⓘ spiritual imagery ⓘ |
| includedIn | many anthologies of English poetry ⓘ |
| influence | popular love poetry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lineCount | 14 ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
alliteration
ⓘ
anaphora ⓘ enjambment ⓘ hyperbole ⓘ metaphor ⓘ |
| literaryForm | Petrarchan sonnet ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| openingQuestion | How do I love thee? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalCollectionPublisher | Chapman and Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Sonnets from the Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | ABBA ABBA CDC DCD ⓘ |
| subject | Robert Browning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
devotion
ⓘ
enduring love ⓘ love ⓘ marital love ⓘ spiritual love ⓘ |
| tone |
intimate
ⓘ
passionate ⓘ reverent ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Description of subject: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." is one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s most famous love sonnets, celebrated for its passionate enumeration of deep and enduring love.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.