Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath was a 20th-century American poet, novelist, and short-story writer renowned for her intensely confessional style and works such as "The Bell Jar" and the poetry collection "Ariel."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sylvia Plath canonical | 90 |
| Aurelia Plath | 1 |
| Plath | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110786 — 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: Sylvia Plath Context triple: [American literature, hasNotableAuthor, Sylvia Plath]
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A.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot was a seminal 20th-century poet, critic, and playwright, best known for works such as "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets," which profoundly influenced modernist literature.
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B.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a renowned Canadian author and poet best known for her speculative fiction works such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake."
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C.
Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, feminist, pacifist, and pioneering civil liberties advocate who played a key role in the early 20th-century progressive and suffrage movements.
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D.
Bettina Aptheker
Bettina Aptheker is an American political activist, feminist scholar, and professor known for her prominent role in the 1960s student movements and long-standing work in civil rights and social justice.
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E.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- 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: Sylvia Plath Target entity description: Sylvia Plath was a 20th-century American poet, novelist, and short-story writer renowned for her intensely confessional style and works such as "The Bell Jar" and the poetry collection "Ariel."
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A.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot was a seminal 20th-century poet, critic, and playwright, best known for works such as "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets," which profoundly influenced modernist literature.
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B.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a renowned Canadian author and poet best known for her speculative fiction works such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake."
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C.
Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, feminist, pacifist, and pioneering civil liberties advocate who played a key role in the early 20th-century progressive and suffrage movements.
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D.
Bettina Aptheker
Bettina Aptheker is an American political activist, feminist scholar, and professor known for her prominent role in the 1960s student movements and long-standing work in civil rights and social justice.
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E.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Sylvia Plath Description of subject: Sylvia Plath was a 20th-century American poet, novelist, and short-story writer renowned for her intensely confessional style and works such as "The Bell Jar" and the poetry collection "Ariel."
Referenced by (92)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sylvia Plath
subject linked to:
Christine Jeffs
linked to: Sylvia Plath
subject linked to:
Mademoiselle magazine