Robert Lowell
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Robert Lowell was a prominent 20th-century American poet and key figure in the Confessional poetry movement, known for his intensely personal and formally innovative verse.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Lowell canonical | 68 |
| Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV | 3 |
| Robert Lowell (as speaker) | 1 |
| Robert Lowell's family | 1 |
| Robert Lowell's father | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549322 — 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: Robert Lowell Context triple: [Sylvia Plath, influencedBy, Robert Lowell]
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W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden was a major 20th-century Anglo-American poet known for his technical virtuosity, moral and political engagement, and wide-ranging influence on modern poetry.
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost was a renowned American poet celebrated for his depictions of rural New England life and his mastery of colloquial speech and traditional verse forms.
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Hart Crane
Hart Crane was an American modernist poet renowned for his dense, visionary language and his ambitious long poem "The Bridge."
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E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings was an innovative American poet, painter, and playwright renowned for his unconventional syntax, typography, and playful use of language in modernist poetry.
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E.
Charles Lowell
Charles Lowell was a prominent early 19th-century American Unitarian minister and the father of poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
- 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: Robert Lowell Target entity description: Robert Lowell was a prominent 20th-century American poet and key figure in the Confessional poetry movement, known for his intensely personal and formally innovative verse.
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A.
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden was a major 20th-century Anglo-American poet known for his technical virtuosity, moral and political engagement, and wide-ranging influence on modern poetry.
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B.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost was a renowned American poet celebrated for his depictions of rural New England life and his mastery of colloquial speech and traditional verse forms.
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C.
Hart Crane
Hart Crane was an American modernist poet renowned for his dense, visionary language and his ambitious long poem "The Bridge."
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D.
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings was an innovative American poet, painter, and playwright renowned for his unconventional syntax, typography, and playful use of language in modernist poetry.
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E.
Charles Lowell
Charles Lowell was a prominent early 19th-century American Unitarian minister and the father of poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Robert Lowell Description of subject: Robert Lowell was a prominent 20th-century American poet and key figure in the Confessional poetry movement, known for his intensely personal and formally innovative verse.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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“Memories of West Street and Lepke”
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“91 Revere Street”
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“91 Revere Street”
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“My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow”
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“My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow”
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“Commander Lowell”
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“Commander Lowell”
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“Commander Lowell”
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“Terminal Days at Beverly Farms”
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“Terminal Days at Beverly Farms”