“The Shot”
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“The Shot” is a poem by Ted Hughes from his collection *Birthday Letters*, reflecting on his relationship with Sylvia Plath and the forces that shaped her life and death.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shot (poem) | 1 |
| “The Shot” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5310899 — 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: “The Shot” Context triple: [Birthday Letters, hasPart, “The Shot”]
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A.
The Big Shot
"The Big Shot" is a 1942 American crime film noir starring Humphrey Bogart as a three-time loser drawn into one last ill-fated heist.
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B.
One Shot
"One Shot" is a crime thriller novel by Lee Child featuring ex-military drifter Jack Reacher investigating a seemingly open-and-shut sniper murder case.
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C.
16 Shots
"16 Shots" is a politically charged protest song by rapper Vic Mensa that condemns police brutality and specifically addresses the 2014 police shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago.
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D.
Big Shot
"Big Shot" is a 1978 rock song by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, known for its satirical take on New York high society and featured on his album "52nd Street."
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E.
Shoot to Thrill
"Shoot to Thrill" is a high-energy hard rock song by Australian band AC/DC, best known from their 1980 album "Back in Black" and for its frequent use in action film soundtracks.
- 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: “The Shot” Target entity description: “The Shot” is a poem by Ted Hughes from his collection *Birthday Letters*, reflecting on his relationship with Sylvia Plath and the forces that shaped her life and death.
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A.
The Big Shot
"The Big Shot" is a 1942 American crime film noir starring Humphrey Bogart as a three-time loser drawn into one last ill-fated heist.
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B.
One Shot
"One Shot" is a crime thriller novel by Lee Child featuring ex-military drifter Jack Reacher investigating a seemingly open-and-shut sniper murder case.
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C.
16 Shots
"16 Shots" is a politically charged protest song by rapper Vic Mensa that condemns police brutality and specifically addresses the 2014 police shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago.
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D.
Big Shot
"Big Shot" is a 1978 rock song by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, known for its satirical take on New York high society and featured on his album "52nd Street."
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E.
Shoot to Thrill
"Shoot to Thrill" is a high-energy hard rock song by Australian band AC/DC, best known from their 1980 album "Back in Black" and for its frequent use in action film soundtracks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| addresses | Sylvia Plath ⓘ |
| author | Ted Hughes ⓘ |
| collectionAwardContext |
Birthday Letters won the Forward Prize for Best Collection
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linked to:
Forward Prize for Best Collection
Birthday Letters won the T. S. Eliot Prize ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| collectionTitle | Birthday Letters ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely discussed in Plath–Hughes scholarship ⓘ |
| genre | confessional poetry ⓘ |
| hasContext | late reflections by Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath’s life and death ⓘ |
| hasForm | lyric poem ⓘ |
| includedInCollectionAbout | Ted Hughes’s relationship with Sylvia Plath ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryCollectionAuthor | Ted Hughes ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary poetry ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Sylvia Plath
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Ted Hughes ⓘ biographical reflection ⓘ death ⓘ fate ⓘ marital relationship ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| partOf | Birthday Letters ⓘ |
| portrays |
Sylvia Plath as driven by powerful external forces
ⓘ
linked to:
The Bell Jar
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| publisherOfCollection | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| relatedPerson |
Sylvia Plath
ⓘ
Ted Hughes ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Ariel
ⓘ
Daddy ⓘ |
| speaker | Ted Hughes ⓘ |
| theme |
blame and responsibility
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inevitability of tragedy ⓘ marital breakdown ⓘ memory and retrospection ⓘ mythologizing of Sylvia Plath ⓘ public perception versus private experience ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: “The Shot” Description of subject: “The Shot” is a poem by Ted Hughes from his collection *Birthday Letters*, reflecting on his relationship with Sylvia Plath and the forces that shaped her life and death.
Referenced by (2)
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