The Triumph of Achilles
E542076
The Triumph of Achilles is a poetry collection by Louise Glück that explores themes of vulnerability, mortality, and myth through spare, emotionally intense verse.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Triumph of Achilles canonical | 1 |
| The Triumph of Achilles (poem) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5696487 — 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 Triumph of Achilles Context triple: [Louise Glück, notableWork, The Triumph of Achilles]
-
A.
The Shield of Achilles
The Shield of Achilles is a poem by W. H. Auden that contrasts Homeric heroism with the horrors and moral emptiness of the modern world.
-
B.
wrath of Achilles
The wrath of Achilles is a central theme in Greek mythology and Homer's Iliad, depicting the hero's consuming anger and its devastating consequences for both Greeks and Trojans during the Trojan War.
-
C.
The Corinthian
The Corinthian is a nightmare created by Dream in Neil Gaiman’s comic series "The Sandman," known for his chilling role as a serial killer with mouths for eyes.
-
D.
Little Iliad
The Little Iliad is a lost ancient Greek epic poem of the Trojan Cycle that narrated events between the end of the Iliad and the fall of Troy, including episodes involving Helen of Troy.
-
E.
Iliad, Book 5
Iliad, Book 5 is a section of Homer’s epic poem that focuses on the intense battlefield exploits of the Greek hero Diomedes during the Trojan War.
- 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 Triumph of Achilles Target entity description: The Triumph of Achilles is a poetry collection by Louise Glück that explores themes of vulnerability, mortality, and myth through spare, emotionally intense verse.
-
A.
The Shield of Achilles
The Shield of Achilles is a poem by W. H. Auden that contrasts Homeric heroism with the horrors and moral emptiness of the modern world.
-
B.
wrath of Achilles
The wrath of Achilles is a central theme in Greek mythology and Homer's Iliad, depicting the hero's consuming anger and its devastating consequences for both Greeks and Trojans during the Trojan War.
-
C.
The Corinthian
The Corinthian is a nightmare created by Dream in Neil Gaiman’s comic series "The Sandman," known for his chilling role as a serial killer with mouths for eyes.
-
D.
Little Iliad
The Little Iliad is a lost ancient Greek epic poem of the Trojan Cycle that narrated events between the end of the Iliad and the fall of Troy, including episodes involving Helen of Troy.
-
E.
Iliad, Book 5
Iliad, Book 5 is a section of Homer’s epic poem that focuses on the intense battlefield exploits of the Greek hero Diomedes during the Trojan War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | Louise Glück ⓘ |
| awarded | National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| follows | Descending Figure ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasPoem |
Marathon
ⓘ
Mock Orange ⓘ Mythic Fragment ⓘ The Fear of Burial ⓘ The Garden ⓘ The Night Migrations ⓘ The Reproach ⓘ The Triumph of Achilles (poem) ⓘ
linked to:
The Triumph of Achilles
|
| influenced | contemporary American poetry ⓘ |
| ISBN | 9780880010375 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
intense exploration of female subjectivity
ⓘ
reimagining classical myth in a modern psychological register ⓘ |
| pageCount | 64 ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorCareerPhase | early work of Louise Glück ⓘ |
| precedes | Ararat ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| publisher | Ecco Press ⓘ |
| style |
emotional intensity
ⓘ
free verse ⓘ mythic allusion ⓘ spare diction ⓘ |
| subject |
Achilles
ⓘ
Greek mythology ⓘ |
| theme |
human suffering
ⓘ
identity ⓘ isolation ⓘ loss ⓘ love ⓘ mortality ⓘ myth ⓘ vulnerability ⓘ |
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 Triumph of Achilles Description of subject: The Triumph of Achilles is a poetry collection by Louise Glück that explores themes of vulnerability, mortality, and myth through spare, emotionally intense verse.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Triumph of Achilles