First Festival of Modern Poetry
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The First Festival of Modern Poetry was a landmark mid-20th-century San Francisco event that showcased innovative poets and helped catalyze the San Francisco Renaissance in American literature.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| First Festival of Modern Poetry canonical | 2 |
| First Festival of Modern Poetry (San Francisco, 1947) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2902618 — 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: First Festival of Modern Poetry Context triple: [San Francisco Renaissance, hasEvent, First Festival of Modern Poetry]
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A.
A Lecture on Modern Poetry
A Lecture on Modern Poetry is an influential critical essay by T. E. Hulme that helped articulate early modernist ideas about poetic form and language.
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B.
The Yale Younger Poets Series
The Yale Younger Poets Series is a prestigious American poetry book series that annually publishes debut collections by emerging poets selected through a renowned competition.
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C.
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse is a pioneering American literary journal, founded in 1912, renowned for introducing and championing major modernist poets and movements.
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D.
The Future Poetry
The Future Poetry is a critical work by Indian philosopher and yogi Sri Aurobindo that explores the spiritual evolution of poetry and envisions a higher, more intuitive poetic expression for the future.
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E.
Des Imagistes
Des Imagistes is a landmark 1914 poetry anthology edited by Ezra Pound that introduced and defined the principles of the Imagist movement.
- 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: First Festival of Modern Poetry Target entity description: The First Festival of Modern Poetry was a landmark mid-20th-century San Francisco event that showcased innovative poets and helped catalyze the San Francisco Renaissance in American literature.
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A.
A Lecture on Modern Poetry
A Lecture on Modern Poetry is an influential critical essay by T. E. Hulme that helped articulate early modernist ideas about poetic form and language.
-
B.
The Yale Younger Poets Series
The Yale Younger Poets Series is a prestigious American poetry book series that annually publishes debut collections by emerging poets selected through a renowned competition.
-
C.
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse is a pioneering American literary journal, founded in 1912, renowned for introducing and championing major modernist poets and movements.
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D.
The Future Poetry
The Future Poetry is a critical work by Indian philosopher and yogi Sri Aurobindo that explores the spiritual evolution of poetry and envisions a higher, more intuitive poetic expression for the future.
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E.
Des Imagistes
Des Imagistes is a landmark 1914 poetry anthology edited by Ezra Pound that introduced and defined the principles of the Imagist movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary event
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poetry festival ⓘ |
| artForm | poetry ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American modern poetry
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San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ |
| audience |
general public interested in poetry
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literary community ⓘ poets ⓘ |
| century | 20th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| culturalRegion | American literature ⓘ |
| eventType |
festival
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poetry reading series ⓘ |
| focus |
innovative poetry
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modernist poetry ⓘ |
| genre | modern poetry ⓘ |
| impact |
contributed to the development of postwar American poetry
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increased visibility of innovative poets in San Francisco ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ |
| location | San Francisco ⓘ |
| movement | San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ |
| name | First Festival of Modern Poetry ⓘ |
| significance |
helped catalyze the San Francisco Renaissance in American literature
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landmark event in San Francisco literary history ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: First Festival of Modern Poetry Description of subject: The First Festival of Modern Poetry was a landmark mid-20th-century San Francisco event that showcased innovative poets and helped catalyze the San Francisco Renaissance in American literature.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: First Festival of Modern Poetry