The Ploughman
E157289
"The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ploughman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1364947 — 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: The Ploughman Context triple: [Poems of Robert Burns, containsWork, The Ploughman]
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A.
The Great Commoner
The Great Commoner was the popular nickname of William Pitt the Elder, a prominent 18th-century British statesman celebrated for his leadership during the Seven Years' War and his advocacy for parliamentary reform.
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B.
The Rigs o' Barley
"The Rigs o' Barley" is a romantic and pastoral Scots-language song and poem by Robert Burns celebrating love and rural courtship in the barley fields.
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C.
The Hired Hand
The Hired Hand is a 1971 revisionist Western film directed by and starring Peter Fonda, noted for its lyrical style and contemplative take on violence and masculinity.
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D.
The Hireling Shepherd
The Hireling Shepherd is an 1851 oil painting by William Holman Hunt that exemplifies the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s vivid detail, moral symbolism, and intense naturalism in a rural English setting.
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E.
The Cow
The Cow is the English title of Surah Al-Baqarah, the Quran’s longest chapter, which covers core themes of faith, law, guidance, and the relationship between God and humanity.
- 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: The Ploughman Target entity description: "The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
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A.
The Great Commoner
The Great Commoner was the popular nickname of William Pitt the Elder, a prominent 18th-century British statesman celebrated for his leadership during the Seven Years' War and his advocacy for parliamentary reform.
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B.
The Rigs o' Barley
"The Rigs o' Barley" is a romantic and pastoral Scots-language song and poem by Robert Burns celebrating love and rural courtship in the barley fields.
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C.
The Hired Hand
The Hired Hand is a 1971 revisionist Western film directed by and starring Peter Fonda, noted for its lyrical style and contemplative take on violence and masculinity.
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D.
The Hireling Shepherd
The Hireling Shepherd is an 1851 oil painting by William Holman Hunt that exemplifies the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s vivid detail, moral symbolism, and intense naturalism in a rural English setting.
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E.
The Cow
The Cow is the English title of Surah Al-Baqarah, the Quran’s longest chapter, which covers core themes of faith, law, guidance, and the relationship between God and humanity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Robert Burns poetry
ⓘ
linked to:
Poems of Robert Burns
Scottish literature ⓘ |
| author | Robert Burns ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| depicts | agricultural life ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasAuthorRole | Scottish national poet ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | 18th-century Scotland ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | sympathetic view of rural workers ⓘ |
| hasSubject | ploughman ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| literaryForm | poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Scottish Enlightenment ⓘ |
| partOf | Robert Burns corpus ⓘ |
| theme |
common folk
ⓘ
rural life ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Robert Burns ⓘ |
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: The Ploughman Description of subject: "The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.