Carl Phillips
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Carl Phillips is an acclaimed American poet and professor known for his lyrical explorations of desire, morality, and identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carl Phillips canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8349588 — 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: Carl Phillips Context triple: [Yale Younger Poets Series, hasEditor, Carl Phillips]
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A.
David Phillips
David Phillips was a film cinematographer best known for his work on the 1995 drama "The Basketball Diaries" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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B.
David Chilton Phillips
David Chilton Phillips was a British biophysicist and pioneering X-ray crystallographer known for his influential work on protein structure and leadership in structural biology.
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C.
Brian Beattie
Brian Beattie is an American musician, producer, and arranger known for his inventive orchestral and studio work with indie and alternative artists.
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D.
Anthony Phillips
Anthony Phillips is an English guitarist and composer best known as a founding member and early guitarist of the rock band Genesis before establishing a prolific solo and library music career.
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E.
David Burnside
David Burnside is a Northern Irish public relations executive and former Ulster Unionist Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for South Antrim.
- 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: Carl Phillips Target entity description: Carl Phillips is an acclaimed American poet and professor known for his lyrical explorations of desire, morality, and identity.
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A.
David Phillips
David Phillips was a film cinematographer best known for his work on the 1995 drama "The Basketball Diaries" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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B.
David Chilton Phillips
David Chilton Phillips was a British biophysicist and pioneering X-ray crystallographer known for his influential work on protein structure and leadership in structural biology.
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C.
Brian Beattie
Brian Beattie is an American musician, producer, and arranger known for his inventive orchestral and studio work with indie and alternative artists.
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D.
Anthony Phillips
Anthony Phillips is an English guitarist and composer best known as a founding member and early guitarist of the rock band Genesis before establishing a prolific solo and library music career.
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E.
David Burnside
David Burnside is a Northern Irish public relations executive and former Ulster Unionist Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for South Antrim.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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person ⓘ poet ⓘ professor ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Griffin Poetry Prize
NERFINISHED
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Jackson Poetry Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ National Book Award for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Boston University
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Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | Washington University in St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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poetry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Letters
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary American poetry ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Double Shadow
NERFINISHED
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From the Devotions NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing NERFINISHED ⓘ Pale Colors in a Tall Field NERFINISHED ⓘ Pastoral NERFINISHED ⓘ Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986–2006 NERFINISHED ⓘ Reconnaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ Silverchest NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rest of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020 NERFINISHED ⓘ Wild Is the Wind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
ⓘ
poet ⓘ translator ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor of African and African-American Studies
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Professor of English ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| writingStyle | lyrical ⓘ |
| writingTheme |
classical mythology
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desire ⓘ identity ⓘ morality ⓘ power dynamics ⓘ queerness ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Carl Phillips Description of subject: Carl Phillips is an acclaimed American poet and professor known for his lyrical explorations of desire, morality, and identity.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yale Younger Poets Series