The Dead and the Living
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The Dead and the Living is a critically acclaimed poetry collection by Sharon Olds that explores themes of family, violence, and mortality in vivid, confessional verse.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Dead and the Living canonical | 1 |
| The Dead and the Living (title poem) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3362254 — 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: The Dead and the Living Context triple: [Sharon Olds, notableWork, The Dead and the Living]
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A.
Born with the Dead
"Born with the Dead" is a celebrated science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of love, loss, and resurrection in a future where the dead can be technologically revived.
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B.
The Glorious Dead
"The Glorious Dead" is a solemn commemorative phrase honoring those who lost their lives in war, famously inscribed on the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London.
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C.
The Dead
"The Dead" is a World War I poem by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealizes the noble sacrifice of fallen soldiers.
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D.
The Dead
The Dead was a post-Jerry Garcia incarnation of the Grateful Dead, featuring surviving members of the band performing their classic repertoire in the 2000s.
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E.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
- 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 Dead and the Living Target entity description: The Dead and the Living is a critically acclaimed poetry collection by Sharon Olds that explores themes of family, violence, and mortality in vivid, confessional verse.
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A.
Born with the Dead
"Born with the Dead" is a celebrated science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of love, loss, and resurrection in a future where the dead can be technologically revived.
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B.
The Glorious Dead
"The Glorious Dead" is a solemn commemorative phrase honoring those who lost their lives in war, famously inscribed on the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London.
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C.
The Dead
"The Dead" is a World War I poem by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealizes the noble sacrifice of fallen soldiers.
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D.
The Dead
The Dead was a post-Jerry Garcia incarnation of the Grateful Dead, featuring surviving members of the band performing their classic repertoire in the 2000s.
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E.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | Sharon Olds ⓘ |
| awarded | National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Gold Cell ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780394537603 ⓘ |
| hasPoem |
The Dead and the Living (title poem)
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linked to:
The Dead and the Living
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| hasRecognition | considered one of Sharon Olds’s breakthrough works ⓘ |
| includedIn | American poetry curricula ⓘ |
| influencedBy | confessional poetry tradition ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | confessional poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American poetry ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depictions of domestic violence
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exploration of family dynamics ⓘ meditations on death and loss ⓘ |
| pageCount | 80 ⓘ |
| partOf | Sharon Olds bibliography ⓘ |
| precededBy | Satan Says ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| setting | 20th-century United States ⓘ |
| style |
first-person voice
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narrative poems ⓘ vivid imagery ⓘ |
| subject |
childhood
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death ⓘ family ⓘ marriage ⓘ mortality ⓘ parent–child relationships ⓘ sexuality ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
body and sexuality
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intersections of personal and historical violence ⓘ memory and trauma ⓘ survival and resilience ⓘ |
| tone |
confessional
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intimate ⓘ |
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linked to: The Dead and the Living