Personae
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Personae is a collection of Ezra Pound’s early poems that showcases his development of modernist style and imagist technique.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Personae canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1009792 — 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: Personae Context triple: [Ezra Pound, notableWork, Personae]
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A.
Strife
Strife is a 1909 stage play by John Galsworthy that portrays a bitter industrial conflict between capital and labor, highlighting the human cost of class struggle.
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B.
Eidolon
Eidolon is an online classics journal and magazine that presents accessible, socially engaged writing on the ancient world for a broad contemporary audience.
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C.
Meliora
Meliora is the Latin motto of the University of Rochester, commonly interpreted as meaning “ever better” or “always better.”
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D.
Thorns
Thorns is the commonly used shorthand name for Portland Thorns FC, a professional women's soccer team based in Portland, Oregon.
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E.
Idols of the Cave
Idols of the Cave are Francis Bacon’s category of cognitive biases arising from an individual’s personal experiences, education, and temperament that distort their understanding of reality.
- 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: Personae Target entity description: Personae is a collection of Ezra Pound’s early poems that showcases his development of modernist style and imagist technique.
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A.
Strife
Strife is a 1909 stage play by John Galsworthy that portrays a bitter industrial conflict between capital and labor, highlighting the human cost of class struggle.
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B.
Eidolon
Eidolon is an online classics journal and magazine that presents accessible, socially engaged writing on the ancient world for a broad contemporary audience.
-
C.
Meliora
Meliora is the Latin motto of the University of Rochester, commonly interpreted as meaning “ever better” or “always better.”
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D.
Thorns
Thorns is the commonly used shorthand name for Portland Thorns FC, a professional women's soccer team based in Portland, Oregon.
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E.
Idols of the Cave
Idols of the Cave are Francis Bacon’s category of cognitive biases arising from an individual’s personal experiences, education, and temperament that distort their understanding of reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | Ezra Pound ⓘ |
| containsWorkBy | Ezra Pound ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | recognized as a key early modernist collection ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1909 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Exultations ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasEdition | Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceFrom |
Italian literature
ⓘ
Provençal poetry ⓘ
linked to:
Occitan
classical literature ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Renaissance themes
ⓘ
classical themes ⓘ medieval themes ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Personae ⓘ |
| isEarlyWorkOf | Ezra Pound ⓘ |
| isImportantFor |
development of Anglo-American Modernism
ⓘ
early Imagist poetics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Imagism
ⓘ
Modernism ⓘ |
| publisher | Elkin Mathews ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Cathay
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Ripostes ⓘ |
| showcases | Ezra Pound’s early poems ⓘ |
| showsDevelopmentOf |
Ezra Pound’s imagist technique
ⓘ
Ezra Pound’s modernist style ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Personae Description of subject: Personae is a collection of Ezra Pound’s early poems that showcases his development of modernist style and imagist technique.
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subject linked to:
Pound