"The Homework Machine"
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"The Homework Machine" is a humorous children's poem by Shel Silverstein about a too-good-to-be-true device that does a student's homework for them, with predictably troublesome results.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| "The Homework Machine" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20136628 — 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 Homework Machine" Context triple: [A Light in the Attic, hasPoem, "The Homework Machine"]
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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C.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Shelly Levene, a once-legendary but now struggling real estate salesman in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross."
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D.
The Machine
The Machine is the sadistic, masked pornographer and primary antagonist in the 1999 crime thriller film "8MM."
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E.
The Machine
The Machine is a 2013 British science fiction thriller film about a sentient android created as a military weapon, directed by Caradog W. James.
- 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 Homework Machine" Target entity description: "The Homework Machine" is a humorous children's poem by Shel Silverstein about a too-good-to-be-true device that does a student's homework for them, with predictably troublesome results.
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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C.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Shelly Levene, a once-legendary but now struggling real estate salesman in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross."
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D.
The Machine
The Machine is the sadistic, masked pornographer and primary antagonist in the 1999 crime thriller film "8MM."
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E.
The Machine
The Machine is a 2013 British science fiction thriller film about a sentient android created as a military weapon, directed by Caradog W. James.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.