Spleen
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"Spleen" is a famous melancholic poem by Charles Baudelaire from his collection *Les Fleurs du mal*, exploring themes of ennui, despair, and existential anguish.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spleen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5397380 — 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: Spleen Context triple: [Les Fleurs du mal, notablePoem, Spleen]
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A.
Lungs
Lungs is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, noted for its dramatic vocals and lush, baroque pop production.
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B.
Medúlla
Medúlla is an experimental 2004 studio album by Icelandic artist Björk that is largely constructed from vocal sounds and a cappella arrangements.
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C.
Neebe
Neebe is a surname most notably associated with Oscar Neebe, an American labor activist and one of the defendants in the 1886 Haymarket affair.
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D.
Periton
Periton is a residential area and suburb on the outskirts of Minehead in Somerset, England.
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E.
Gall
Gall was a prominent 19th-century Hunkpapa Lakota war leader known for his key role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn alongside Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
- 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: Spleen Target entity description: "Spleen" is a famous melancholic poem by Charles Baudelaire from his collection *Les Fleurs du mal*, exploring themes of ennui, despair, and existential anguish.
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A.
Lungs
Lungs is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, noted for its dramatic vocals and lush, baroque pop production.
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B.
Medúlla
Medúlla is an experimental 2004 studio album by Icelandic artist Björk that is largely constructed from vocal sounds and a cappella arrangements.
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C.
Neebe
Neebe is a surname most notably associated with Oscar Neebe, an American labor activist and one of the defendants in the 1886 Haymarket affair.
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D.
Periton
Periton is a residential area and suburb on the outskirts of Minehead in Somerset, England.
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E.
Gall
Gall was a prominent 19th-century Hunkpapa Lakota war leader known for his key role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn alongside Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Charles Baudelaire ⓘ |
| collectionPublication | 1857 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| form | rhymed verse ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
burdened heart
ⓘ
closed horizon ⓘ dampness and rot ⓘ funeral imagery ⓘ narrow, suffocating space ⓘ oppressive sky ⓘ rain ⓘ |
| inCollectionEdition | first edition of Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| influenced |
French Symbolist poets
ⓘ
modern French poetry ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Modernism precursor
ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| meter | alexandrine ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on decadent and symbolist aesthetics
ⓘ
innovative use of urban imagery ⓘ intense depiction of ennui ⓘ |
| notableIn | French literature ⓘ |
| partOf | Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
loss of hope
ⓘ
metaphysical anxiety ⓘ psychological suffering ⓘ sense of imprisonment ⓘ |
| theme |
boredom
ⓘ
death ⓘ decay ⓘ despair ⓘ ennui ⓘ existential anguish ⓘ inner torment ⓘ loss of faith ⓘ melancholy ⓘ spiritual crisis ⓘ time ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ |
| tone |
despairing
ⓘ
oppressive ⓘ somber ⓘ |
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: Spleen Description of subject: "Spleen" is a famous melancholic poem by Charles Baudelaire from his collection *Les Fleurs du mal*, exploring themes of ennui, despair, and existential anguish.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.