To Clarinda, on Hearing She Was Ill
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"To Clarinda, on Hearing She Was Ill" is a poem by Robert Burns addressed to his muse and correspondent Agnes Maclehose, expressing tender concern and affection during her illness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| To Clarinda, on Hearing She Was Ill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8877202 — 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: To Clarinda, on Hearing She Was Ill Context triple: [Agnes Maclehose, inspired, To Clarinda, on Hearing She Was Ill]
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A.
Clarinda
Clarinda is a small city in southwestern Iowa known for its agricultural community and historic Midwestern charm.
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B.
The West Wind
The West Wind is a famous landscape painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson, depicting a solitary pine tree bent by the wind and often seen as an emblem of the rugged Canadian wilderness.
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C.
Serenad
Serenad is a bestselling novel by Turkish author Zülfü Livaneli that intertwines a contemporary Istanbul narrative with a tragic love story set against the backdrop of World War II and the Holocaust.
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D.
The Cornfield
The Cornfield is a historically significant field at Antietam where some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the American Civil War occurred.
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E.
The Cornfield
The Cornfield is a celebrated 1826 landscape painting by English Romantic artist John Constable, depicting a rural Suffolk scene with meticulous natural detail and atmospheric light.
- 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: To Clarinda, on Hearing She Was Ill Target entity description: "To Clarinda, on Hearing She Was Ill" is a poem by Robert Burns addressed to his muse and correspondent Agnes Maclehose, expressing tender concern and affection during her illness.
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A.
Clarinda
Clarinda is a small city in southwestern Iowa known for its agricultural community and historic Midwestern charm.
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B.
The West Wind
The West Wind is a famous landscape painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson, depicting a solitary pine tree bent by the wind and often seen as an emblem of the rugged Canadian wilderness.
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C.
Serenad
Serenad is a bestselling novel by Turkish author Zülfü Livaneli that intertwines a contemporary Istanbul narrative with a tragic love story set against the backdrop of World War II and the Holocaust.
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D.
The Cornfield
The Cornfield is a historically significant field at Antietam where some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the American Civil War occurred.
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E.
The Cornfield
The Cornfield is a celebrated 1826 landscape painting by English Romantic artist John Constable, depicting a rural Suffolk scene with meticulous natural detail and atmospheric light.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| addressedTo | Agnes Maclehose ⓘ |
| addresseeAlias | Clarinda ⓘ |
| author | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| correspondenceContext | Burns–Maclehose correspondence ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| expressionOf |
affection
ⓘ
tender concern ⓘ |
| form | verse ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poem ⓘ |
| hasMuse | Agnes Maclehose ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Clarinda ⓘ |
| involves | epistolary relationship ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Scottish love poetry ⓘ |
| meter | traditional Scottish song-like meter ⓘ |
| originallyPublishedIn | 19th-century collections of Robert Burns’s works ⓘ |
| relatedPerson |
Agnes Maclehose
ⓘ
Robert Burns ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Ae Fond Kiss ⓘ |
| setting | late 18th century Scotland ⓘ |
| subject |
the beloved’s suffering
ⓘ
the poet’s emotional response ⓘ |
| theme |
emotional intimacy
ⓘ
illness ⓘ love ⓘ sympathy ⓘ |
| tone |
affectionate
ⓘ
concerned ⓘ tender ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Robert Burns ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: To Clarinda, on Hearing She Was Ill Description of subject: "To Clarinda, on Hearing She Was Ill" is a poem by Robert Burns addressed to his muse and correspondent Agnes Maclehose, expressing tender concern and affection during her illness.
Referenced by (1)
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