The Portent
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The Portent is a poem by Herman Melville that ominously foreshadows the American Civil War through the image of the abolitionist John Brown’s hanging.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Portent canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21444882 — 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 Portent Context triple: [The Stone Fleet, relatedWorkByAuthor, The Portent]
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A.
The Seer
The Seer is a 19th-century Latter-day Saint periodical written and edited by Orson Pratt that expounded on early Mormon theology and doctrine.
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B.
The Seer
The Seer is a 1947 abstract painting by American artist Adolph Gottlieb, exemplifying his Pictograph style that combines symbolic imagery with expressive abstraction.
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C.
The Unbidden
The Unbidden is a 2016 supernatural horror film featuring Julia Nickson in a story about a group of friends haunted by a dark secret from their past.
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D.
Shadowfell
Shadowfell is a gloomy, death-touched parallel plane in Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Realms setting, embodying darkness, decay, and despair as a shadowy reflection of the mortal world.
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E.
Gaiant’wake
Gaiant’wake is the Seneca name of Cornplanter, a prominent 18th-century Seneca war chief and diplomat of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- 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 Portent Target entity description: The Portent is a poem by Herman Melville that ominously foreshadows the American Civil War through the image of the abolitionist John Brown’s hanging.
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A.
The Seer
The Seer is a 19th-century Latter-day Saint periodical written and edited by Orson Pratt that expounded on early Mormon theology and doctrine.
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B.
The Seer
The Seer is a 1947 abstract painting by American artist Adolph Gottlieb, exemplifying his Pictograph style that combines symbolic imagery with expressive abstraction.
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C.
The Unbidden
The Unbidden is a 2016 supernatural horror film featuring Julia Nickson in a story about a group of friends haunted by a dark secret from their past.
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D.
Shadowfell
Shadowfell is a gloomy, death-touched parallel plane in Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Realms setting, embodying darkness, decay, and despair as a shadowy reflection of the mortal world.
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E.
Gaiant’wake
Gaiant’wake is the Seneca name of Cornplanter, a prominent 18th-century Seneca war chief and diplomat of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“The Stone Fleet”