If—
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"If—" is a widely anthologized poem by Rudyard Kipling that offers stoic, moral, and practical advice on how to live with integrity, resilience, and maturity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| If— canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2605233 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: If— Context triple: [Rudyard Kipling, notableWork, If—]
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If
"If" is a 1993 Janet Jackson song known for its fusion of R&B, rock, and industrial sounds, sexually assertive lyrics, and innovative, high-energy choreography in its music video.
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B.
So
So is the given name of So Taguchi, a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder who played in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball.
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How.
How. is the standard abbreviated form of the journal title "Howard Reports," a legal case reporter.
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D.
Este
Este is an ancient town in northern Italy notable as a key center of the Venetic civilization and culture.
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E.
So.
So. is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the Southern Reporter, a regional case law reporter covering appellate court decisions from several U.S. southern states.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: If— Target entity description: "If—" is a widely anthologized poem by Rudyard Kipling that offers stoic, moral, and practical advice on how to live with integrity, resilience, and maturity.
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A.
If
"If" is a 1993 Janet Jackson song known for its fusion of R&B, rock, and industrial sounds, sexually assertive lyrics, and innovative, high-energy choreography in its music video.
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B.
So
So is the given name of So Taguchi, a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder who played in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball.
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C.
How.
How. is the standard abbreviated form of the journal title "Howard Reports," a legal case reporter.
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D.
Este
Este is an ancient town in northern Italy notable as a key center of the Venetic civilization and culture.
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E.
So.
So. is the standard legal citation abbreviation for the Southern Reporter, a regional case law reporter covering appellate court decisions from several U.S. southern states.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Victorian poem
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didactic poem ⓘ poem ⓘ |
| addressee | a son ⓘ |
| author | Rudyard Kipling ⓘ |
| collectionType | short story collection with poems ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | public domain in many jurisdictions ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | one of the most popular poems in English ⓘ |
| famousLine |
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
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If you can keep your head when all about you ⓘ Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it ⓘ |
| firstPublishedAsPartOf | Rewards and Fairies ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Rewards and Fairies ⓘ |
| form | lyric poem ⓘ |
| genre | didactic literature ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| includedIn | many school curricula worldwide ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Victorian ideals of manhood ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter (predominantly) ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | second person ⓘ |
| numberOfStanzas | 4 ⓘ |
| oftenQuotedIn |
educational contexts
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motivational speeches ⓘ self-help literature ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1910 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Gunga Din
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Mandalay ⓘ The Jungle Book ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | abab cdcd efef ghgh (per stanza) ⓘ |
| structure | conditional clauses leading to a concluding reward ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
how to develop character
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how to face adversity ⓘ how to live with integrity ⓘ |
| theme |
courage
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emotional control ⓘ humility ⓘ leadership ⓘ maturity ⓘ moral integrity ⓘ patience ⓘ perseverance ⓘ resilience ⓘ self-discipline ⓘ stoicism ⓘ |
| tone |
didactic
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encouraging ⓘ moral ⓘ |
| widelyAnthologized | true ⓘ |
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: If— Description of subject: "If—" is a widely anthologized poem by Rudyard Kipling that offers stoic, moral, and practical advice on how to live with integrity, resilience, and maturity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.