Mid-Term Break
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"Mid-Term Break" is a poignant autobiographical poem by Seamus Heaney that reflects on a young boy's experience of family grief following the sudden death of his younger brother.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mid-Term Break canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5439338 — 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: Mid-Term Break Context triple: [Death of a Naturalist, containsPoem, Mid-Term Break]
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A.
Goodbye to Childhood
"Goodbye to Childhood" is a song from the 1963 jazz album *Speak Like a Child* by trumpeter and composer Freddie Hubbard.
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B.
New Kid in Town
"New Kid in Town" is a hit soft rock song by the Eagles, featured on their landmark 1976 album "Hotel California" and known for its smooth harmonies and themes of fleeting fame.
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C.
One Crazy Summer
One Crazy Summer is a 1986 comedy film directed by Savage Steve Holland, starring John Cusack as a young cartoonist who spends a chaotic summer on Nantucket Island.
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D.
Leaving Home
"Leaving Home" is a collection of humorous and nostalgic stories by Garrison Keillor set in the fictional Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon.
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E.
Leaving Home
"Leaving Home" is an orchestral cue from John Williams' iconic 1978 Superman film score, underscoring Clark Kent’s emotional departure from Smallville.
- 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: Mid-Term Break Target entity description: "Mid-Term Break" is a poignant autobiographical poem by Seamus Heaney that reflects on a young boy's experience of family grief following the sudden death of his younger brother.
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A.
Goodbye to Childhood
"Goodbye to Childhood" is a song from the 1963 jazz album *Speak Like a Child* by trumpeter and composer Freddie Hubbard.
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B.
New Kid in Town
"New Kid in Town" is a hit soft rock song by the Eagles, featured on their landmark 1976 album "Hotel California" and known for its smooth harmonies and themes of fleeting fame.
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C.
One Crazy Summer
One Crazy Summer is a 1986 comedy film directed by Savage Steve Holland, starring John Cusack as a young cartoonist who spends a chaotic summer on Nantucket Island.
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D.
Leaving Home
"Leaving Home" is a collection of humorous and nostalgic stories by Garrison Keillor set in the fictional Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon.
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E.
Leaving Home
"Leaving Home" is an orchestral cue from John Williams' iconic 1978 Superman film score, underscoring Clark Kent’s emotional departure from Smallville.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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poem ⓘ |
| author | Seamus Heaney ⓘ |
| centralEvent | death of the speaker's younger brother ⓘ |
| closingLine | "A four foot box, a foot for every year." ⓘ |
| collection | Death of a Naturalist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Death of a Naturalist ⓘ |
| form | lyric poem ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical poem
ⓘ
elegy ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReputation | one of Seamus Heaney's most studied poems ⓘ |
| includedIn |
school curricula in Ireland
ⓘ
school curricula in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | death of Seamus Heaney's younger brother Christopher Heaney ⓘ |
| keyImage |
four-foot box
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poppy bruise on the brother's temple ⓘ snowdrops and candles ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lineCount | 34 ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | contemporary poetry ⓘ |
| meter | predominantly iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| narratorAge | schoolboy ⓘ |
| openingScene | speaker waiting in the college sick bay ⓘ |
| poetNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| poetNobelPrize | Seamus Heaney Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstCollection | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | unrhymed ⓘ |
| setting | rural Ireland ⓘ |
| stanzaCount | 7 ⓘ |
| subject |
childhood
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death ⓘ family ⓘ grief ⓘ mourning rituals ⓘ |
| theme |
emotional distance and shock
ⓘ
family dynamics in bereavement ⓘ loss of innocence ⓘ public versus private grief ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfEvents | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| tone |
poignant
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restrained ⓘ |
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Subject: Mid-Term Break Description of subject: "Mid-Term Break" is a poignant autobiographical poem by Seamus Heaney that reflects on a young boy's experience of family grief following the sudden death of his younger brother.
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