The Tyger
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"The Tyger" is a famous poem by William Blake that explores themes of creation, innocence, and experience through the striking image of a fearsome tiger.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Tyger canonical | 3 |
| Tyger, Tyger | 1 |
| William Blake poem "The Tyger" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5651462 — 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 Tyger Context triple: [William Blake, notableWork, The Tyger]
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A.
The Lamb
The Lamb is a small uninhabited rocky islet in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, known for its seabird colonies and proximity to the island of Fidra.
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B.
Fire and Ice
"Fire and Ice" is a brief, widely studied lyric poem by Robert Frost that reflects on the destructive power of human emotions through the metaphor of the world's end.
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C.
Kubla Khan
"Kubla Khan" is a famous unfinished poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, celebrated for its vivid, dreamlike imagery and exploration of the creative imagination.
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D.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality" is a major lyric poem by William Wordsworth reflecting on childhood, memory, and the loss and partial recovery of a visionary sense of the divine in nature.
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E.
To a Skylark
"To a Skylark" is a renowned Romantic lyric poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that celebrates the skylark as a symbol of pure, transcendent joy and poetic inspiration.
- 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 Tyger Target entity description: "The Tyger" is a famous poem by William Blake that explores themes of creation, innocence, and experience through the striking image of a fearsome tiger.
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A.
The Lamb
The Lamb is a small uninhabited rocky islet in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, known for its seabird colonies and proximity to the island of Fidra.
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B.
Fire and Ice
"Fire and Ice" is a brief, widely studied lyric poem by Robert Frost that reflects on the destructive power of human emotions through the metaphor of the world's end.
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C.
Kubla Khan
"Kubla Khan" is a famous unfinished poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, celebrated for its vivid, dreamlike imagery and exploration of the creative imagination.
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D.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality" is a major lyric poem by William Wordsworth reflecting on childhood, memory, and the loss and partial recovery of a visionary sense of the divine in nature.
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E.
To a Skylark
"To a Skylark" is a renowned Romantic lyric poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that celebrates the skylark as a symbol of pure, transcendent joy and poetic inspiration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
poem ⓘ |
| asksQuestion | Did he who made the Lamb make thee? ⓘ |
| author | William Blake ⓘ |
| collectedIn | numerous poetry anthologies ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | The Lamb ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation |
engraver
ⓘ
painter ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| exploresConcept | the nature of the creator ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1794 ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasCriticalInterpretation |
exploration of the limits of human understanding of God
ⓘ
meditation on the problem of evil ⓘ reflection on the coexistence of beauty and terror ⓘ |
| illustratedBy | William Blake ⓘ |
| imagery |
fire
ⓘ
forge and hammer ⓘ stars and heavens ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Songs of Innocence and of Experience ⓘ |
| influence | English literature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| meter | trochaic tetrameter ⓘ |
| numberOfLines | 24 ⓘ |
| numberOfStanzas | 6 ⓘ |
| openingLine | Tyger Tyger, burning bright ⓘ |
| originalMedium | illuminated printing ⓘ |
| pairedWith | The Lamb ⓘ |
| partOf | Songs of Experience ⓘ |
| publishedIn | Songs of Experience ⓘ |
| questioningStyle | series of rhetorical questions ⓘ |
| refrain | Tyger Tyger, burning bright ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | AABB ⓘ |
| setting | night ⓘ |
| subject |
act of creation
ⓘ
fearsome tiger ⓘ |
| taughtIn | schools and universities worldwide ⓘ |
| theme |
awe and fear
ⓘ
creation ⓘ divine power ⓘ good and evil ⓘ innocence and experience ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
| usesSymbolismOf | tiger ⓘ |
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 Tyger Description of subject: "The Tyger" is a famous poem by William Blake that explores themes of creation, innocence, and experience through the striking image of a fearsome tiger.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.