poem "Humour"
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The poem "Humour" is a work by Yevgeny Yevtushenko whose text was used by Dmitri Shostakovich in the choral symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| poem "Humor" | 1 |
| poem "Humour" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11701029 — 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: poem "Humour" Context triple: [Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar", textSource, poem "Humour"]
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A.
poem "Examination at the Womb-Door"
"Examination at the Womb-Door" is a dark, existential poem by Ted Hughes from his Crow sequence, in which a questioning voice interrogates the nature of life, death, and identity.
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B.
The Sense of Humor
The Sense of Humor is a 1921 book by American writer and critic Max Eastman that explores the nature, psychology, and social role of humor.
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C.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table is an 1872 collection of conversational essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., continuing his popular series of reflective, humorous breakfast-table dialogues.
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D.
The Rhyming Poem
The Rhyming Poem is an Old English verse notable for its rare and elaborate use of end rhyme, preserved in the medieval manuscript known as the Exeter Book.
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E.
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
"The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" is a moody, jazz-inflected song by Prince noted for its surreal storytelling and innovative use of studio effects.
- 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: poem "Humour" Target entity description: The poem "Humour" is a work by Yevgeny Yevtushenko whose text was used by Dmitri Shostakovich in the choral symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar."
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A.
poem "Examination at the Womb-Door"
"Examination at the Womb-Door" is a dark, existential poem by Ted Hughes from his Crow sequence, in which a questioning voice interrogates the nature of life, death, and identity.
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B.
The Sense of Humor
The Sense of Humor is a 1921 book by American writer and critic Max Eastman that explores the nature, psychology, and social role of humor.
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C.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table is an 1872 collection of conversational essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., continuing his popular series of reflective, humorous breakfast-table dialogues.
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D.
The Rhyming Poem
The Rhyming Poem is an Old English verse notable for its rare and elaborate use of end rhyme, preserved in the medieval manuscript known as the Exeter Book.
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E.
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
"The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" is a moody, jazz-inflected song by Prince noted for its surreal storytelling and innovative use of studio effects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Dmitri Shostakovich ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Babi Yar (Shostakovich)
ⓘ
linked to:
Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar"
Yevgeny Yevtushenko–Dmitri Shostakovich collaborations ⓘ |
| author | Yevgeny Yevtushenko ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm | poem text for choral setting ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
freedom of expression
ⓘ
humor ⓘ resilience ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| language | Russian ⓘ |
| literaryTradition |
Russian Soviet poetry
ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet literature
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| movementOf | Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" ⓘ |
| originalScript | Cyrillic ⓘ |
| partOf | cycle of poems used in Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" ⓘ |
| poet | Yevgeny Yevtushenko ⓘ |
| publicationEra | 20th century ⓘ |
| setToMusicBy | Dmitri Shostakovich ⓘ |
| textUsedInMovement | one of the movements of Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" ⓘ |
| usedAsTextIn |
Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar"
ⓘ
choral symphony No. 13 by Dmitri Shostakovich ⓘ
linked to:
Shostakovich Symphony No. 13, first movement
|
| writtenBy | Yevgeny Yevtushenko ⓘ |
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: poem "Humour" Description of subject: The poem "Humour" is a work by Yevgeny Yevtushenko whose text was used by Dmitri Shostakovich in the choral symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" by Dmitri Shostakovich
linked to: poem "Humour"