Joyce Kilmer
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Joyce Kilmer was an American poet and journalist best known for his 1913 poem "Trees."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joyce Kilmer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12890112 — 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: Joyce Kilmer Context triple: [Joyce Kilmer Park, namedAfter, Joyce Kilmer]
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A.
Vachel Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay was an influential American poet known for his rhythmic, chant-like verse and performances that helped pioneer modern spoken-word poetry in the early 20th century.
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B.
William Austin Dickinson
William Austin Dickinson was the older brother of poet Emily Dickinson, a respected lawyer and civic leader in Amherst, Massachusetts, who managed the family estate and played a key role in preserving his sister’s legacy.
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C.
Edward Vincent Bracken
Edward Vincent Bracken was an American comedic actor best known for his roles in 1940s Hollywood films such as "Hail the Conquering Hero" and "The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek."
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D.
George Sterling
George Sterling was an American poet and leading figure in early 20th-century California literature, closely associated with the Bohemian artistic circles of San Francisco.
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E.
Witter Bynner
Witter Bynner was an American poet, translator, and patron of the arts known for his lyric verse and support of emerging poets in the early 20th century.
- 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: Joyce Kilmer Target entity description: Joyce Kilmer was an American poet and journalist best known for his 1913 poem "Trees."
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A.
Vachel Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay was an influential American poet known for his rhythmic, chant-like verse and performances that helped pioneer modern spoken-word poetry in the early 20th century.
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B.
William Austin Dickinson
William Austin Dickinson was the older brother of poet Emily Dickinson, a respected lawyer and civic leader in Amherst, Massachusetts, who managed the family estate and played a key role in preserving his sister’s legacy.
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C.
Edward Vincent Bracken
Edward Vincent Bracken was an American comedic actor best known for his roles in 1940s Hollywood films such as "Hail the Conquering Hero" and "The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek."
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D.
George Sterling
George Sterling was an American poet and leading figure in early 20th-century California literature, closely associated with the Bohemian artistic circles of San Francisco.
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E.
Witter Bynner
Witter Bynner was an American poet, translator, and patron of the arts known for his lyric verse and support of emerging poets in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ poet ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| child |
Deborah Kilmer
NERFINISHED
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Kent Tiernan Kilmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Kilmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Kilmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1886-12-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1918-07-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Rutgers College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Current Literature
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The New York Times ⓘ |
| familyName | Kilmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Alfred Joyce Kilmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| givenName |
Alfred
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Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMemorial |
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
NERFINISHED
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Joyce Kilmer Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Joyce Kilmer Service Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSignatureWork | Trees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | sergeant ⓘ |
| movement | Georgian poetry ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Main Street and Other Poems
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trees NERFINISHED ⓘ Trees and Other Poems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ poet ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfWork | 1913 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| religiousConversion | converted to Roman Catholicism in 1913 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Aline Murray Kilmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrotePoem | Trees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Joyce Kilmer Description of subject: Joyce Kilmer was an American poet and journalist best known for his 1913 poem "Trees."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.