This Is Just to Say
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"This Is Just to Say" is a brief, imagist-style poem by William Carlos Williams, famous for its everyday language, playful confession, and exploration of ordinary domestic moments as poetic subject matter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Is Just to Say canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6697491 — 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: This Is Just to Say Context triple: [William Carlos Williams, notableWork, This Is Just to Say]
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The Pie
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Still Life with Plums is a celebrated still-life painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, known for its quiet realism and subtle, atmospheric depiction of everyday objects.
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Crumbs from Your Table
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The Bean Eater
The Bean Eater is a genre painting by Annibale Carracci depicting a humble man eating a simple meal, celebrated for its realistic detail and earthy, everyday subject matter.
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Ham on Rye
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- 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: This Is Just to Say Target entity description: "This Is Just to Say" is a brief, imagist-style poem by William Carlos Williams, famous for its everyday language, playful confession, and exploration of ordinary domestic moments as poetic subject matter.
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A.
The Pie
The Pie is the spirited horse ridden by Velvet Brown in the classic novel and film "National Velvet."
-
B.
Still Life with Plums
Still Life with Plums is a celebrated still-life painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, known for its quiet realism and subtle, atmospheric depiction of everyday objects.
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C.
Crumbs from Your Table
"Crumbs from Your Table" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 2004 album *How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb*, noted for its critique of global inequality and Western complacency.
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D.
The Bean Eater
The Bean Eater is a genre painting by Annibale Carracci depicting a humble man eating a simple meal, celebrated for its realistic detail and earthy, everyday subject matter.
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E.
Ham on Rye
Ham on Rye is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by Charles Bukowski that follows his alter ego Henry Chinaski through a bleak, darkly comic childhood and adolescence in Depression-era Los Angeles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American modernist experimentation with form
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Williams’s focus on the local and ordinary ⓘ |
| author | William Carlos Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
domestic intimacy
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food ⓘ sensory pleasure ⓘ transgression ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstLine | I have eaten ⓘ |
| form | short lyric poem ⓘ |
| genre | imagist poetry ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
contemporary minimalist poetry
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use of everyday speech in poetry ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
commentary on poetic subject matter
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read as mock-apology ⓘ read as sincere apology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | very short poem ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | free verse ⓘ |
| meter | non-metrical ⓘ |
| movement | Modernism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambiguity of sincerity in apology
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domestic scene as poetry ⓘ epistolary note-like form ⓘ imagist precision of detail ⓘ use of everyday language ⓘ |
| oftenAnthologizedIn | American poetry anthologies ⓘ |
| register | colloquial ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | unrhymed ⓘ |
| studiedIn | literature courses ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
a note of apology
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plums in an icebox ⓘ |
| theme |
desire
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domestic life ⓘ everyday life ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ guilt ⓘ ordinary objects as poetic subject ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| tone |
confessional
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ironic ⓘ playful ⓘ |
| usesPerspective | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| writtenBy | physician-poet William Carlos Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: This Is Just to Say Description of subject: "This Is Just to Say" is a brief, imagist-style poem by William Carlos Williams, famous for its everyday language, playful confession, and exploration of ordinary domestic moments as poetic subject matter.
Referenced by (1)
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