Ash-Wednesday
E20948
Ash-Wednesday is a 1930 poem by T. S. Eliot that marks his turn toward Christian faith, blending spiritual introspection with complex, allusive verse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ash-Wednesday canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T167846 — 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: Ash-Wednesday Context triple: [T. S. Eliot, notableWork, Ash-Wednesday]
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A.
Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman is a major Middle English allegorical poem, attributed to William Langland, that explores social justice and Christian spirituality through a series of dream visions.
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B.
Harrow Songs
Harrow Songs are a celebrated collection of traditional school songs closely associated with the culture and history of Harrow School in England.
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C.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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D.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
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E.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a landmark modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that portrays the spiritual desolation and fragmentation of post–World War I Western society through a dense collage of voices, allusions, and shifting perspectives.
- 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: Ash-Wednesday Target entity description: Ash-Wednesday is a 1930 poem by T. S. Eliot that marks his turn toward Christian faith, blending spiritual introspection with complex, allusive verse.
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A.
Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman is a major Middle English allegorical poem, attributed to William Langland, that explores social justice and Christian spirituality through a series of dream visions.
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B.
Harrow Songs
Harrow Songs are a celebrated collection of traditional school songs closely associated with the culture and history of Harrow School in England.
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C.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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D.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
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E.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a landmark modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that portrays the spiritual desolation and fragmentation of post–World War I Western society through a dense collage of voices, allusions, and shifting perspectives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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poem ⓘ |
| author | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely studied in modernist literary criticism ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | 1930 ⓘ |
| followsWork | The Waste Land ⓘ |
| form | lyric poem ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist poetry
ⓘ
religious poetry ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Part I: "Because I do not hope to turn again"
ⓘ
Part II ⓘ Part III ⓘ Part IV ⓘ Part V ⓘ Part VI ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Biblical imagery
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Christian liturgy ⓘ Dante Alighieri ⓘ T. S. Eliot's conversion to Anglicanism ⓘ mystical theology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| meter | free verse ⓘ |
| notableLine |
"Because I do not hope to turn again"
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"Suffer me not to be separated" ⓘ "Teach us to care and not to care" ⓘ |
| positionInCareer | first major poem after Eliot's conversion to Anglicanism ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1930 ⓘ |
| publisher | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Four Quartets
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The Waste Land ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Anglo-Catholicism ⓘ |
| structure | six-part poem ⓘ |
| style |
allusive
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complex ⓘ fragmentary ⓘ |
| subject | inner spiritual struggle ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | Lenten penitence ⓘ |
| theme |
Christian faith
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conversion ⓘ despair and hope ⓘ grace ⓘ prayer ⓘ renunciation ⓘ repentance ⓘ search for God ⓘ spiritual introspection ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | Ash Wednesday ⓘ |
| writer | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: Ash-Wednesday Description of subject: Ash-Wednesday is a 1930 poem by T. S. Eliot that marks his turn toward Christian faith, blending spiritual introspection with complex, allusive verse.
Referenced by (3)
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