Silas (The Death of the Hired Man)
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Silas is the aging, itinerant farmhand in Robert Frost’s poem "The Death of the Hired Man," whose return to Warren and Mary’s farm raises questions about duty, compassion, and the meaning of home.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silas (The Death of the Hired Man) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19398980 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas (The Death of the Hired Man) Context triple: [Mary (The Death of the Hired Man), hasRelationshipWith, Silas (The Death of the Hired Man)]
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Warren (The Death of the Hired Man)
Warren is a central character in Robert Frost’s narrative poem "The Death of the Hired Man," portrayed as a practical New England farmer whose conflicted sense of duty and justice shapes the poem’s exploration of home, responsibility, and forgiveness.
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The Death of the Hired Man
The Death of the Hired Man is a narrative poem by Robert Frost that explores themes of home, duty, and compassion through a couple’s late-night discussion about an aging farmhand who has returned to die.
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Grange Copeland
Grange Copeland is the troubled African American sharecropper whose life of oppression, violence, and eventual moral reckoning forms the central focus of Alice Walker’s novel *The Third Life of Grange Copeland*.
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The Farmer
The Farmer is a lost comedic play by the ancient Greek playwright Philemon, who was a prominent figure of New Comedy.
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The Lonedale Operator
The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, noted for its innovative cross-cutting and suspenseful storytelling in early cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas (The Death of the Hired Man) Target entity description: Silas is the aging, itinerant farmhand in Robert Frost’s poem "The Death of the Hired Man," whose return to Warren and Mary’s farm raises questions about duty, compassion, and the meaning of home.
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A.
Warren (The Death of the Hired Man)
Warren is a central character in Robert Frost’s narrative poem "The Death of the Hired Man," portrayed as a practical New England farmer whose conflicted sense of duty and justice shapes the poem’s exploration of home, responsibility, and forgiveness.
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B.
The Death of the Hired Man
The Death of the Hired Man is a narrative poem by Robert Frost that explores themes of home, duty, and compassion through a couple’s late-night discussion about an aging farmhand who has returned to die.
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C.
Grange Copeland
Grange Copeland is the troubled African American sharecropper whose life of oppression, violence, and eventual moral reckoning forms the central focus of Alice Walker’s novel *The Third Life of Grange Copeland*.
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D.
The Farmer
The Farmer is a lost comedic play by the ancient Greek playwright Philemon, who was a prominent figure of New Comedy.
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E.
The Lonedale Operator
The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, noted for its innovative cross-cutting and suspenseful storytelling in early cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.