"Tithonus" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Tithonus" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a dramatic monologue poem that reimagines the Greek myth of Tithonus to explore themes of immortality, aging, and the human longing for death.
All labels observed (1)
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| "Tithonus" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18773283 — 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: "Tithonus" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Context triple: [Tithonus, inspiredWork, "Tithonus" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
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A.
poem "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Spring and Fall" is a lyric poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that meditates on innocence, mortality, and the dawning awareness of human sorrow through a speaker’s address to a child named Margaret.
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B.
Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Proserpine" is an 1870s Pre-Raphaelite painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicting Jane Morris as the mythological goddess Persephone, symbolizing themes of captivity, temptation, and duality.
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C.
Lord Byron’s poem "Darkness"
Lord Byron’s poem "Darkness" is a bleak, apocalyptic vision of a sunless world and human despair, inspired by the climate anomalies and gloom following the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora.
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D.
The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"The Day Dream" is an 1880 Pre-Raphaelite oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, depicting his muse Jane Morris seated in a sycamore tree in a highly idealized, romanticized style.
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E.
The Darkling Thrush (early version, "By the Century’s Deathbed")
"The Darkling Thrush" (early version, "By the Century’s Deathbed") is an earlier, more explicitly fin-de-siècle draft of Thomas Hardy’s famous poem, reflecting his bleak view of the dying nineteenth century before he revised it into its better-known form.
- 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: "Tithonus" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Target entity description: "Tithonus" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a dramatic monologue poem that reimagines the Greek myth of Tithonus to explore themes of immortality, aging, and the human longing for death.
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A.
poem "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Spring and Fall" is a lyric poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that meditates on innocence, mortality, and the dawning awareness of human sorrow through a speaker’s address to a child named Margaret.
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B.
Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Proserpine" is an 1870s Pre-Raphaelite painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicting Jane Morris as the mythological goddess Persephone, symbolizing themes of captivity, temptation, and duality.
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C.
Lord Byron’s poem "Darkness"
Lord Byron’s poem "Darkness" is a bleak, apocalyptic vision of a sunless world and human despair, inspired by the climate anomalies and gloom following the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora.
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D.
The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"The Day Dream" is an 1880 Pre-Raphaelite oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, depicting his muse Jane Morris seated in a sycamore tree in a highly idealized, romanticized style.
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E.
The Darkling Thrush (early version, "By the Century’s Deathbed")
"The Darkling Thrush" (early version, "By the Century’s Deathbed") is an earlier, more explicitly fin-de-siècle draft of Thomas Hardy’s famous poem, reflecting his bleak view of the dying nineteenth century before he revised it into its better-known form.
- F. None of above. chosen
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