Ted Kooser
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Ted Kooser is an American poet, essayist, and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for his accessible, plainspoken verse about Midwestern life.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ted Kooser canonical | 19 |
| Kooser | 1 |
| former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2124076 — 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: Ted Kooser Context triple: [University of Nebraska–Lincoln, hasNotableAlumnus, Ted Kooser]
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A.
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver was a beloved American poet renowned for her clear, contemplative verse about nature, spirituality, and the human experience.
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B.
Louise Glück
Louise Glück was an American poet and essayist renowned for her austere, lyrical explorations of loss, family, and the self, and was widely celebrated as one of the most important contemporary voices in American poetry.
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C.
James Merrill
James Merrill was an American poet renowned for his formally intricate, witty, and emotionally nuanced verse, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection "Divine Comedies."
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D.
James Wright
James Wright was the last British royal governor of Georgia, known for his strong Loyalist stance and efforts to maintain British control during the American Revolutionary period.
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E.
Arthur David Olson
Arthur David Olson is a computer programmer best known for creating and long maintaining the IANA time zone database, a critical global resource for timekeeping in computing systems.
- 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: Ted Kooser Target entity description: Ted Kooser is an American poet, essayist, and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for his accessible, plainspoken verse about Midwestern life.
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A.
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver was a beloved American poet renowned for her clear, contemplative verse about nature, spirituality, and the human experience.
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B.
Louise Glück
Louise Glück was an American poet and essayist renowned for her austere, lyrical explorations of loss, family, and the self, and was widely celebrated as one of the most important contemporary voices in American poetry.
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C.
James Merrill
James Merrill was an American poet renowned for his formally intricate, witty, and emotionally nuanced verse, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection "Divine Comedies."
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D.
James Wright
James Wright was the last British royal governor of Georgia, known for his strong Loyalist stance and efforts to maintain British control during the American Revolutionary period.
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E.
Arthur David Olson
Arthur David Olson is a computer programmer best known for creating and long maintaining the IANA time zone database, a critical global resource for timekeeping in computing systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Ted Kooser Description of subject: Ted Kooser is an American poet, essayist, and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for his accessible, plainspoken verse about Midwestern life.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ted Kooser
linked to: Ted Kooser