“The Minotaur”
E509884
“The Minotaur” is a poem by Ted Hughes from his collection *Birthday Letters*, reflecting on his relationship with Sylvia Plath through the mythic figure of the Minotaur.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| “The Minotaur” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5310900 — 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 Minotaur” Context triple: [Birthday Letters, hasPart, “The Minotaur”]
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A.
Serpent’s Mouth
Serpent’s Mouth is a narrow strait between Trinidad and Venezuela that forms the southern entrance to the Gulf of Paria from the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
“The Treachery of Sanctuary”
“The Treachery of Sanctuary” is an interactive, large-scale digital art installation by filmmaker and artist Chris Milk that explores themes of life, death, and transcendence through motion-tracking projections of the viewer’s own body.
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C.
"The Mercy Seat"
"The Mercy Seat" is a dark, narrative-driven song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds that explores guilt, death, and the electric chair through intense, repetitive lyrics and brooding instrumentation.
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D.
The Labyrinth
"The Labyrinth" is a memoir by former Nazi intelligence officer Walter Schellenberg, offering an insider account of the Third Reich’s espionage and power struggles.
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E.
labyrinth of the Minotaur
The labyrinth of the Minotaur is the legendary maze in Greek mythology where the half-man, half-bull creature was imprisoned and ultimately slain by the hero Theseus.
- 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 Minotaur” Target entity description: “The Minotaur” is a poem by Ted Hughes from his collection *Birthday Letters*, reflecting on his relationship with Sylvia Plath through the mythic figure of the Minotaur.
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A.
Serpent’s Mouth
Serpent’s Mouth is a narrow strait between Trinidad and Venezuela that forms the southern entrance to the Gulf of Paria from the Atlantic Ocean.
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B.
“The Treachery of Sanctuary”
“The Treachery of Sanctuary” is an interactive, large-scale digital art installation by filmmaker and artist Chris Milk that explores themes of life, death, and transcendence through motion-tracking projections of the viewer’s own body.
-
C.
"The Mercy Seat"
"The Mercy Seat" is a dark, narrative-driven song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds that explores guilt, death, and the electric chair through intense, repetitive lyrics and brooding instrumentation.
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D.
The Labyrinth
"The Labyrinth" is a memoir by former Nazi intelligence officer Walter Schellenberg, offering an insider account of the Third Reich’s espionage and power struggles.
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E.
labyrinth of the Minotaur
The labyrinth of the Minotaur is the legendary maze in Greek mythology where the half-man, half-bull creature was imprisoned and ultimately slain by the hero Theseus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literaryWork
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poem ⓘ |
| author | Ted Hughes ⓘ |
| collectionThemeContext | Hughes–Plath relationship ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReceptionContext | controversial reassessment of Hughes–Plath history ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCollection | Birthday Letters ⓘ |
| genre |
confessional poetry
ⓘ
lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm | free verse ⓘ |
| includedIn | Ted Hughes’s late works ⓘ |
| inCollectionPerspective | Hughes’s view of events surrounding Sylvia Plath ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
extended metaphor
ⓘ
imagery ⓘ mythological allusion ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | late 20th-century British poetry ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person perspective ⓘ |
| partOf | Birthday Letters ⓘ |
| publisher | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| subject |
Sylvia Plath
ⓘ
Ted Hughes ⓘ guilt ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ memory ⓘ mental illness ⓘ mythology in modern life ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| timeOfPublication | 1998 ⓘ |
| usesMythicFigure | Minotaur ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: “The Minotaur” Description of subject: “The Minotaur” is a poem by Ted Hughes from his collection *Birthday Letters*, reflecting on his relationship with Sylvia Plath through the mythic figure of the Minotaur.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.