Totem
E343979
"Totem" is a poem from Ali Smith’s collection *Winter Trees*, reflecting her characteristically lyrical, inventive exploration of identity and perception.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Totem canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3281472 — 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: Totem Context triple: [Winter Trees, hasPoem, Totem]
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A.
Mutassim
Mutassim is a Libyan political figure best known as one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, who held senior security and military roles in his father’s regime.
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B.
Omoo
Omoo is an 1847 semi-autobiographical travel adventure novel by Herman Melville that recounts his experiences in the South Pacific and serves as a sequel to Typee.
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C.
Araras
Araras is a municipality in the interior of the Brazilian state of São Paulo, known for its agricultural economy and regional industrial activities.
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D.
Pariah
Pariah is a 2011 independent coming-of-age drama film about a Brooklyn teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian, noted for its intimate storytelling and evocative cinematography.
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E.
Sitaantaagu
Sitaantaagu is the Tlingit name for the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, Alaska, a prominent valley glacier and major natural landmark.
- 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: Totem Target entity description: "Totem" is a poem from Ali Smith’s collection *Winter Trees*, reflecting her characteristically lyrical, inventive exploration of identity and perception.
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A.
Mutassim
Mutassim is a Libyan political figure best known as one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, who held senior security and military roles in his father’s regime.
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B.
Omoo
Omoo is an 1847 semi-autobiographical travel adventure novel by Herman Melville that recounts his experiences in the South Pacific and serves as a sequel to Typee.
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C.
Araras
Araras is a municipality in the interior of the Brazilian state of São Paulo, known for its agricultural economy and regional industrial activities.
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D.
Pariah
Pariah is a 2011 independent coming-of-age drama film about a Brooklyn teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian, noted for its intimate storytelling and evocative cinematography.
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E.
Sitaantaagu
Sitaantaagu is the Tlingit name for the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, Alaska, a prominent valley glacier and major natural landmark.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Ali Smith ⓘ |
| collection | Winter Trees ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Ali Smith ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary poetry ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Ali Smith ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasGenre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Totem ⓘ |
| isContainedIn | poetry collection Winter Trees ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| partOf | Winter Trees ⓘ |
| style |
inventive
ⓘ
lyrical ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
observation
ⓘ
selfhood ⓘ |
| theme |
identity
ⓘ
perception ⓘ |
| workType | literary work ⓘ |
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: Totem Description of subject: "Totem" is a poem from Ali Smith’s collection *Winter Trees*, reflecting her characteristically lyrical, inventive exploration of identity and perception.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.