John Crowe Ransom
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John Crowe Ransom was an American poet, critic, and leading figure of the New Criticism movement, known for his influential essays on literary theory and his role in shaping 20th-century literary studies.
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| John Crowe Ransom canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1277840 — 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: John Crowe Ransom Context triple: [Crowe, hasNotableBearer, John Crowe Ransom]
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Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish was an American modernist poet, playwright, and public intellectual who also held prominent government roles, including serving as Librarian of Congress and a key cultural figure during World War II.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet known for his psychologically nuanced character studies and traditional verse forms, and one of the most honored poets of his era.
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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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James Laughlin
James Laughlin was an American poet and influential publisher best known as the founder of New Directions Publishing, which championed many major modernist and avant-garde writers.
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was a major American modernist poet known for his philosophical meditations on imagination and reality in works such as "Harmonium" and "The Idea of Order at Key West."
- 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: John Crowe Ransom Target entity description: John Crowe Ransom was an American poet, critic, and leading figure of the New Criticism movement, known for his influential essays on literary theory and his role in shaping 20th-century literary studies.
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A.
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish was an American modernist poet, playwright, and public intellectual who also held prominent government roles, including serving as Librarian of Congress and a key cultural figure during World War II.
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B.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet known for his psychologically nuanced character studies and traditional verse forms, and one of the most honored poets of his era.
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C.
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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D.
James Laughlin
James Laughlin was an American poet and influential publisher best known as the founder of New Directions Publishing, which championed many major modernist and avant-garde writers.
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E.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was a major American modernist poet known for his philosophical meditations on imagination and reality in works such as "Harmonium" and "The Idea of Order at Key West."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
How these facts were elicited
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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: John Crowe Ransom Description of subject: John Crowe Ransom was an American poet, critic, and leading figure of the New Criticism movement, known for his influential essays on literary theory and his role in shaping 20th-century literary studies.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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The Kenyon Review literary magazine
subject linked to:
The Kenyon Review literary magazine