A Coney Island of the Mind
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A Coney Island of the Mind is a landmark 1958 poetry collection by Beat-associated poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, known for its jazz-influenced free verse and vivid, satirical reflections on postwar American culture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Coney Island of the Mind canonical | 5 |
| “The Coney Island of the Mind” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3090628 — 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: A Coney Island of the Mind Context triple: [Lawrence Ferlinghetti, notableWork, A Coney Island of the Mind]
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A.
Donovan's Brain
Donovan's Brain is a 1953 science fiction horror film about a disembodied brain that telepathically controls a scientist, adapted from Curt Siodmak's novel of the same name.
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B.
Aoxomoxoa
Aoxomoxoa is a 1969 psychedelic rock studio album by the Grateful Dead, noted for its experimental sound and innovative use of multitrack recording technology.
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C.
The Windmills of Your Mind
"The Windmills of Your Mind" is a haunting, metaphor-rich song by Michel Legrand (with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman) that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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D.
Escape from Reason
Escape from Reason is a Christian philosophical work by Francis Schaeffer that critiques modern secular thought and its departure from biblical truth.
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E.
A Strangeness in My Mind
A Strangeness in My Mind is a novel by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that follows the life of a street vendor in Istanbul, exploring themes of love, migration, and the city’s rapid transformation.
- 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: A Coney Island of the Mind Target entity description: A Coney Island of the Mind is a landmark 1958 poetry collection by Beat-associated poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, known for its jazz-influenced free verse and vivid, satirical reflections on postwar American culture.
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A.
Donovan's Brain
Donovan's Brain is a 1953 science fiction horror film about a disembodied brain that telepathically controls a scientist, adapted from Curt Siodmak's novel of the same name.
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B.
Aoxomoxoa
Aoxomoxoa is a 1969 psychedelic rock studio album by the Grateful Dead, noted for its experimental sound and innovative use of multitrack recording technology.
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C.
The Windmills of Your Mind
"The Windmills of Your Mind" is a haunting, metaphor-rich song by Michel Legrand (with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman) that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
-
D.
Escape from Reason
Escape from Reason is a Christian philosophical work by Francis Schaeffer that critiques modern secular thought and its departure from biblical truth.
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E.
A Strangeness in My Mind
A Strangeness in My Mind is a novel by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that follows the life of a street vendor in Istanbul, exploring themes of love, migration, and the city’s rapid transformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Poem 1
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Poem 10 ⓘ Poem 11 ⓘ Poem 12 ⓘ Poem 13 ⓘ Poem 14 ⓘ Poem 15 ⓘ Poem 16 ⓘ Poem 17 ⓘ Poem 18 ⓘ Poem 19 ⓘ Poem 2 ⓘ Poem 20 ⓘ Poem 21 ⓘ Poem 22 ⓘ Poem 23 ⓘ Poem 24 ⓘ Poem 25 ⓘ Poem 26 ⓘ Poem 27 ⓘ Poem 28 ⓘ Poem 29 ⓘ Poem 3 ⓘ Poem 30 ⓘ Poem 31 ⓘ Poem 32 ⓘ Poem 33 ⓘ Poem 34 ⓘ Poem 35 ⓘ Poem 36 ⓘ Poem 37 ⓘ Poem 38 ⓘ Poem 39 ⓘ Poem 4 ⓘ Poem 40 ⓘ Poem 41 ⓘ Poem 42 ⓘ Poem 43 ⓘ Poem 44 ⓘ Poem 45 ⓘ Poem 46 ⓘ Poem 47 ⓘ Poem 48 ⓘ Poem 49 ⓘ Poem 5 ⓘ Poem 50 ⓘ Poem 6 ⓘ Poem 7 ⓘ Poem 8 ⓘ Poem 9 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Beat Generation ⓘ |
| notableStyle | jazz-influenced ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| publisher | New Directions ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
modern urban life
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postwar American culture ⓘ satire ⓘ |
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: A Coney Island of the Mind Description of subject: A Coney Island of the Mind is a landmark 1958 poetry collection by Beat-associated poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, known for its jazz-influenced free verse and vivid, satirical reflections on postwar American culture.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
“The Coney Island of the Mind”