Riders to the Sea
E211926
Riders to the Sea is a one-act opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on J. M. Synge’s play, that poignantly portrays the hardships and tragedies of an Irish fishing family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Riders to the Sea canonical | 5 |
| Riders to the Sea (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909083 — 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: Riders to the Sea Context triple: [Ralph Vaughan Williams, notableWork, Riders to the Sea]
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A.
Béal an Átha
Béal an Átha is the Irish-language name for the town of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland.
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B.
Ulysses
Ulysses is a small town in Tompkins County, New York, known for its rural character and proximity to Cayuga Lake and the Finger Lakes region.
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C.
Strange Interlude
Strange Interlude is a landmark experimental play by Eugene O’Neill, renowned for its use of interior monologues to explore the psychological lives and moral conflicts of its characters.
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D.
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" is Walt Whitman’s elegiac poem mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, renowned for its lyrical meditation on grief, nature, and national loss.
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E.
The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh is a 1939 play by American dramatist Eugene O’Neill that portrays a group of down-and-out barflies confronting their shattered illusions when visited by a charismatic salesman.
- 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: Riders to the Sea Target entity description: Riders to the Sea is a one-act opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on J. M. Synge’s play, that poignantly portrays the hardships and tragedies of an Irish fishing family.
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A.
Béal an Átha
Béal an Átha is the Irish-language name for the town of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland.
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B.
Ulysses
Ulysses is a small town in Tompkins County, New York, known for its rural character and proximity to Cayuga Lake and the Finger Lakes region.
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C.
Strange Interlude
Strange Interlude is a landmark experimental play by Eugene O’Neill, renowned for its use of interior monologues to explore the psychological lives and moral conflicts of its characters.
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D.
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" is Walt Whitman’s elegiac poem mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, renowned for its lyrical meditation on grief, nature, and national loss.
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E.
The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh is a 1939 play by American dramatist Eugene O’Neill that portrays a group of down-and-out barflies confronting their shattered illusions when visited by a charismatic salesman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Riders to the Sea Description of subject: Riders to the Sea is a one-act opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on J. M. Synge’s play, that poignantly portrays the hardships and tragedies of an Irish fishing family.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.