“The Apparition”
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“The Apparition” is a poem by Herman Melville included in his Civil War poetry collection *Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| “The Apparition” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5531403 — 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 Apparition” Context triple: [Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, hasPart, “The Apparition”]
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A.
The Apparition
The Apparition is a symbolist painting by Gustave Moreau depicting the severed head of John the Baptist appearing as a terrifying vision before Salome, renowned for its intricate detail and dreamlike, mystical atmosphere.
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B.
Apparition
Apparition was an independent American film distribution company known for releasing prestige and arthouse films in the late 2000s.
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C.
“Chasing a Ghost”
“Chasing a Ghost” is a track from the punk rock album *Love Is for Losers* by The Longshot, a side project of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
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D.
“A Night”
“A Night” is one of the autobiographical sketches in Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War memoir *Hospital Sketches*, depicting her experiences as a nurse caring for wounded soldiers.
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E.
"Whispers"
"Whispers" is an episode of the animated series Adventure Time that prominently features the villainous character The Lich in a pivotal storyline.
- 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 Apparition” Target entity description: “The Apparition” is a poem by Herman Melville included in his Civil War poetry collection *Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War*.
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A.
The Apparition
The Apparition is a symbolist painting by Gustave Moreau depicting the severed head of John the Baptist appearing as a terrifying vision before Salome, renowned for its intricate detail and dreamlike, mystical atmosphere.
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B.
Apparition
Apparition was an independent American film distribution company known for releasing prestige and arthouse films in the late 2000s.
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C.
“Chasing a Ghost”
“Chasing a Ghost” is a track from the punk rock album *Love Is for Losers* by The Longshot, a side project of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
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D.
“A Night”
“A Night” is one of the autobiographical sketches in Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War memoir *Hospital Sketches*, depicting her experiences as a nurse caring for wounded soldiers.
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E.
"Whispers"
"Whispers" is an episode of the animated series Adventure Time that prominently features the villainous character The Lich in a pivotal storyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Herman Melville ⓘ |
| collection | Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstPublishedIn | Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War ⓘ |
| genre |
Civil War poetry
ⓘ
war poetry ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| historicalContext | American Civil War ⓘ |
| includedIn | Herman Melville’s Civil War poetry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| partOf | Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1866 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstEdition | Harper & Brothers ⓘ |
| subject | American Civil War ⓘ |
| theme |
death
ⓘ
loss ⓘ memory ⓘ the supernatural ⓘ war ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Herman Melville ⓘ |
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: “The Apparition” Description of subject: “The Apparition” is a poem by Herman Melville included in his Civil War poetry collection *Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.