Walter de la Mare
E233695
Walter de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist known for his imaginative, often eerie verse and fiction, and for his prominent role in early 20th-century Georgian poetry.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walter de la Mare canonical | 17 |
| Richard de la Mare | 1 |
| Walter John de la Mare | 1 |
| de la Mare | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2103143 — 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: Walter de la Mare Context triple: [Georgian poetry, associatedWith, Walter de la Mare]
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Mary Webb
Mary Webb was an English novelist and poet of the early 20th century, best known for her regional novels set in the Shropshire countryside, such as "Precious Bane" and "Gone to Earth."
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Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell was a British poet and critic known for her avant-garde verse, eccentric public persona, and influential role in early 20th-century modernist literature.
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Frederic Sandys
Frederic Sandys was a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his highly detailed, symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
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Albert Moore
Albert Moore was a 19th-century English painter associated with the Aesthetic Movement, known for his harmonious compositions of idealized female figures and decorative classical themes.
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Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore was a 19th-century English poet and critic best known for his domestic-themed verse, particularly the long poem "The Angel in the House."
- 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: Walter de la Mare Target entity description: Walter de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist known for his imaginative, often eerie verse and fiction, and for his prominent role in early 20th-century Georgian poetry.
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A.
Mary Webb
Mary Webb was an English novelist and poet of the early 20th century, best known for her regional novels set in the Shropshire countryside, such as "Precious Bane" and "Gone to Earth."
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B.
Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell was a British poet and critic known for her avant-garde verse, eccentric public persona, and influential role in early 20th-century modernist literature.
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C.
Frederic Sandys
Frederic Sandys was a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his highly detailed, symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
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D.
Albert Moore
Albert Moore was a 19th-century English painter associated with the Aesthetic Movement, known for his harmonious compositions of idealized female figures and decorative classical themes.
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E.
Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore was a 19th-century English poet and critic best known for his domestic-themed verse, particularly the long poem "The Angel in the House."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Walter de la Mare Description of subject: Walter de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist known for his imaginative, often eerie verse and fiction, and for his prominent role in early 20th-century Georgian poetry.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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