Sharon Olds
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Sharon Olds is an American poet known for her candid, emotionally intense, and often autobiographical verse that explores family, sexuality, and trauma.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sharon Olds canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549319 — 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: Sharon Olds Context triple: [Sylvia Plath, hasInfluenced, Sharon Olds]
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was a 20th-century American poet, novelist, and short-story writer renowned for her intensely confessional style and works such as "The Bell Jar" and the poetry collection "Ariel."
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B.
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez is an influential American poet, playwright, and activist whose work and teaching have been central to Black Arts and Black feminist literary movements.
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C.
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton was an American confessional poet known for her intensely personal, psychologically probing verse that explored themes such as mental illness, femininity, and death.
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D.
Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle was an American writer and political activist associated with the Lost Generation, known for her experimental fiction, poetry, and short stories set in Europe between the World Wars.
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E.
Edward Bishop
Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
- 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: Sharon Olds Target entity description: Sharon Olds is an American poet known for her candid, emotionally intense, and often autobiographical verse that explores family, sexuality, and trauma.
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A.
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was a 20th-century American poet, novelist, and short-story writer renowned for her intensely confessional style and works such as "The Bell Jar" and the poetry collection "Ariel."
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B.
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez is an influential American poet, playwright, and activist whose work and teaching have been central to Black Arts and Black feminist literary movements.
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C.
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton was an American confessional poet known for her intensely personal, psychologically probing verse that explored themes such as mental illness, femininity, and death.
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D.
Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle was an American writer and political activist associated with the Lost Generation, known for her experimental fiction, poetry, and short stories set in Europe between the World Wars.
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E.
Edward Bishop
Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sharon Olds Description of subject: Sharon Olds is an American poet known for her candid, emotionally intense, and often autobiographical verse that explores family, sexuality, and trauma.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.