The Applicant
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The Applicant is a poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of gender roles, identity, and the commodification of women in marriage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Applicant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3281377 — 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: The Applicant Context triple: [Ariel, containsWork, The Applicant]
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A.
The Appeal
The Appeal is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that explores corporate corruption and the manipulation of the judicial system through a high-stakes Mississippi court case.
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B.
The Court
"The Court" is a politically charged art-rock song by Peter Gabriel that reflects on themes of justice, accountability, and societal judgment.
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C.
The Summons
The Summons is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a law professor who uncovers a mysterious stash of cash among his late father's belongings, drawing him into danger and intrigue.
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D.
The Employer
The Employer is a thriller film featuring Paige Howard in a prominent role.
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E.
Hesher
Hesher is a 2010 dark comedy-drama film about a disruptive, anarchic drifter who upends the lives of a grieving family.
- 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: The Applicant Target entity description: The Applicant is a poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of gender roles, identity, and the commodification of women in marriage.
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A.
The Appeal
The Appeal is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that explores corporate corruption and the manipulation of the judicial system through a high-stakes Mississippi court case.
-
B.
The Court
"The Court" is a politically charged art-rock song by Peter Gabriel that reflects on themes of justice, accountability, and societal judgment.
-
C.
The Summons
The Summons is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a law professor who uncovers a mysterious stash of cash among his late father's belongings, drawing him into danger and intrigue.
-
D.
The Employer
The Employer is a thriller film featuring Paige Howard in a prominent role.
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E.
Hesher
Hesher is a 2010 dark comedy-drama film about a disruptive, anarchic drifter who upends the lives of a grieving family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| addressesTopic |
female domesticity
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marital expectations ⓘ marriage as transaction ⓘ social evaluation of women ⓘ |
| analyzes | marriage as a contract ⓘ |
| author | Sylvia Plath ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Sylvia Plath ⓘ |
| criticizes |
commodification of the female body
ⓘ
traditional gender expectations ⓘ |
| examines |
bureaucratic view of relationships
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dehumanization of women ⓘ power dynamics in marriage ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Ariel ⓘ |
| genre | confessional poetry ⓘ |
| hasAuthorGender | female ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | feminist literary criticism ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | feminist readings of mid-20th-century marriage ⓘ |
| includedIn | Sylvia Plath’s poetic oeuvre ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | confessionalism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | second person ⓘ |
| partOf | Ariel ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumous ⓘ |
| settingType | interview-like scenario ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
modern poetry courses
ⓘ
women’s studies courses ⓘ |
| theme |
commodification of women
ⓘ
consumerism ⓘ gender roles ⓘ identity ⓘ marriage ⓘ objectification ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ performance of gender ⓘ social conformity ⓘ |
| tone |
critical
ⓘ
darkly humorous ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
| usesLiteraryDevice |
enjambment
ⓘ
irony ⓘ metaphor ⓘ repetition ⓘ satire ⓘ |
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: The Applicant Description of subject: The Applicant is a poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of gender roles, identity, and the commodification of women in marriage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.