The Pitchfork (poem)
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"The Pitchfork" is a poem by Seamus Heaney, included in his 1991 collection *Seeing Things*, that reflects his characteristic blend of rural imagery, memory, and meditative insight.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Pitchfork (poem) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5439587 — 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 Pitchfork (poem) Context triple: [Seeing Things, hasPart, The Pitchfork (poem)]
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A.
The Future Poetry
The Future Poetry is a critical work by Indian philosopher and yogi Sri Aurobindo that explores the spiritual evolution of poetry and envisions a higher, more intuitive poetic expression for the future.
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B.
To Be the Poet
"To Be the Poet" is a reflective, genre-blending work by Maxine Hong Kingston in which she meditates on aging, creativity, and her late-life turn from prose to poetry.
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C.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a famous 1926 lyric poem by Archibald MacLeish that meditates on the nature and purpose of poetry, encapsulated in its dictum that "a poem should not mean but be."
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D.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a didactic poem by the Roman poet Horace that offers influential guidance on the art and principles of poetic composition.
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E.
The Disquieting Muses
"The Disquieting Muses" is a poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of alienation, creativity, and haunting maternal figures, inspired by Giorgio de Chirico’s surrealist painting of the same name.
- 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 Pitchfork (poem) Target entity description: "The Pitchfork" is a poem by Seamus Heaney, included in his 1991 collection *Seeing Things*, that reflects his characteristic blend of rural imagery, memory, and meditative insight.
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A.
The Future Poetry
The Future Poetry is a critical work by Indian philosopher and yogi Sri Aurobindo that explores the spiritual evolution of poetry and envisions a higher, more intuitive poetic expression for the future.
-
B.
To Be the Poet
"To Be the Poet" is a reflective, genre-blending work by Maxine Hong Kingston in which she meditates on aging, creativity, and her late-life turn from prose to poetry.
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C.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a famous 1926 lyric poem by Archibald MacLeish that meditates on the nature and purpose of poetry, encapsulated in its dictum that "a poem should not mean but be."
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D.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica is a didactic poem by the Roman poet Horace that offers influential guidance on the art and principles of poetic composition.
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E.
The Disquieting Muses
"The Disquieting Muses" is a poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of alienation, creativity, and haunting maternal figures, inspired by Giorgio de Chirico’s surrealist painting of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Seamus Heaney ⓘ |
| authorAward | Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ |
| authorAwardYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| collection | Seeing Things ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Seeing Things ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary poetry ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNobelLaureate | true ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
craftsmanship
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perception ⓘ the everyday made luminous ⓘ tools ⓘ |
| includedIn | collected editions of Seamus Heaney’s poems ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | late 20th-century Irish poetry ⓘ |
| partOf | Seeing Things ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstCollection | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| theme |
imagination
ⓘ
meditation ⓘ memory ⓘ ordinary objects ⓘ rural life ⓘ transcendence ⓘ work and labor ⓘ |
| usesImageryOf |
farm tools
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rural landscape ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Seamus Heaney ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Pitchfork (poem) Description of subject: "The Pitchfork" is a poem by Seamus Heaney, included in his 1991 collection *Seeing Things*, that reflects his characteristic blend of rural imagery, memory, and meditative insight.
Referenced by (1)
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