Language poets
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Language poets were an experimental group of late-20th-century American writers who emphasized the materiality of language and challenged traditional notions of lyric voice, narrative, and reference.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Language poets canonical | 14 |
| Language poetry | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2902676 — 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: Language poets Context triple: [Black Mountain poets, influenced, Language poets]
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Dunbar Poets
Dunbar Poets is the boys’ basketball team of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Baltimore, Maryland, renowned as a national powerhouse that has produced numerous elite college and professional players.
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Poetry
Poetry is a Python dependency management and packaging tool that simplifies creating, building, and publishing Python projects.
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The Poets
The Poets is the English title of the 26th chapter (Surah Ash-Shu'ara) of the Qur'an, which focuses on the stories of earlier prophets and contrasts divine revelation with the misleading speech of poets and disbelievers.
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Poemata
Poemata is a collection of Latin poems by the Swiss polymath Albrecht von Haller, reflecting his prominence in 18th-century scientific and literary circles.
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Romantic poets
Romantic poets were late 18th- and early 19th-century writers who emphasized emotion, individual experience, imagination, and the sublime power of nature in reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrialization.
- 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: Language poets Target entity description: Language poets were an experimental group of late-20th-century American writers who emphasized the materiality of language and challenged traditional notions of lyric voice, narrative, and reference.
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A.
Dunbar Poets
Dunbar Poets is the boys’ basketball team of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Baltimore, Maryland, renowned as a national powerhouse that has produced numerous elite college and professional players.
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B.
Poetry
Poetry is a Python dependency management and packaging tool that simplifies creating, building, and publishing Python projects.
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C.
The Poets
The Poets is the English title of the 26th chapter (Surah Ash-Shu'ara) of the Qur'an, which focuses on the stories of earlier prophets and contrasts divine revelation with the misleading speech of poets and disbelievers.
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D.
Poemata
Poemata is a collection of Latin poems by the Swiss polymath Albrecht von Haller, reflecting his prominence in 18th-century scientific and literary circles.
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E.
Romantic poets
Romantic poets were late 18th- and early 19th-century writers who emphasized emotion, individual experience, imagination, and the sublime power of nature in reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrialization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
avant-garde literary movement
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poetry movement ⓘ |
| activePeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field | contemporary poetry ⓘ |
| genre | experimental poetry ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
attention to discourse and power relations
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blurring of boundaries between poetry and theory ⓘ challenge to traditional lyric voice ⓘ collective and collaborative practices ⓘ collective identity rather than single school doctrine ⓘ critique of capitalist language and ideology ⓘ decentering of the lyrical subject ⓘ disruption of narrative continuity ⓘ emphasis on language as social construct ⓘ emphasis on materiality of language ⓘ emphasis on writing as process ⓘ engagement with visual and concrete poetry practices ⓘ experimentation with lineation and page layout ⓘ experimentation with prose poetry and hybrid forms ⓘ interest in theory and criticism ⓘ intertextuality ⓘ metalinguistic focus ⓘ nonlinear syntax ⓘ politicized view of language ⓘ readerly participation in meaning-making ⓘ rejection of transparent reference ⓘ self-reflexivity ⓘ skepticism toward expressive authenticity ⓘ small-press and little-magazine publication ⓘ use of collage and montage techniques ⓘ use of everyday and non-poetic discourses ⓘ use of fragmentation ⓘ use of parataxis ⓘ use of procedural and constraint-based methods ⓘ |
| inception | 1970s ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Marxist theory
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Russian Formalism ⓘ
linked to:
Russian formalism
Wittgensteinian philosophy of language ⓘ modernist poetry ⓘ poststructuralism ⓘ structuralism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Language poetry
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linked to:
Language poets
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| movementCenter |
New York City
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San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| publicationVenue |
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine
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This (magazine) ⓘ small-press chapbooks ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Language poets Description of subject: Language poets were an experimental group of late-20th-century American writers who emphasized the materiality of language and challenged traditional notions of lyric voice, narrative, and reference.
Referenced by (23)
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