Mermaid
E761678
"Mermaid" is a poetry collection by British poet Christopher Reid, noted for its lyrical exploration of love, loss, and memory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mermaid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8848355 — 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: Mermaid Context triple: [Christopher Reid, hasWritten, Mermaid]
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A.
Mermaids
Mermaids is a 1990 coming-of-age comedy-drama film starring Cher, Winona Ryder, and Bob Hoskins, centered on an eccentric single mother and her daughters in 1960s New England.
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B.
A Mermaid
A Mermaid is an 1900 oil painting by John William Waterhouse depicting a solitary mermaid combing her hair by the rocky seashore in a romantic, Pre-Raphaelite style.
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C.
Queen Mermaid
Queen Mermaid is the ceremonial figurehead and leading royal character of Coney Island’s annual Mermaid Parade, often portrayed by a notable guest who presides over the festivities.
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D.
Voyage of the Little Mermaid
Voyage of the Little Mermaid was a live musical stage show at Disney's Hollywood Studios that retold Disney’s animated film "The Little Mermaid" using actors, puppetry, and special effects.
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E.
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid is a beloved 1989 animated musical fantasy film that revitalized Disney animation with its fairy-tale romance, memorable songs, and vibrant undersea world.
- 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: Mermaid Target entity description: "Mermaid" is a poetry collection by British poet Christopher Reid, noted for its lyrical exploration of love, loss, and memory.
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A.
Mermaids
Mermaids is a 1990 coming-of-age comedy-drama film starring Cher, Winona Ryder, and Bob Hoskins, centered on an eccentric single mother and her daughters in 1960s New England.
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B.
A Mermaid
A Mermaid is an 1900 oil painting by John William Waterhouse depicting a solitary mermaid combing her hair by the rocky seashore in a romantic, Pre-Raphaelite style.
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C.
Queen Mermaid
Queen Mermaid is the ceremonial figurehead and leading royal character of Coney Island’s annual Mermaid Parade, often portrayed by a notable guest who presides over the festivities.
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D.
Voyage of the Little Mermaid
Voyage of the Little Mermaid was a live musical stage show at Disney's Hollywood Studios that retold Disney’s animated film "The Little Mermaid" using actors, puppetry, and special effects.
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E.
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid is a beloved 1989 animated musical fantasy film that revitalized Disney animation with its fairy-tale romance, memorable songs, and vibrant undersea world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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person ⓘ poet ⓘ poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | Christopher Reid ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation | poet ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Christopher Reid ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notedFor | lyrical exploration of love, loss, and memory ⓘ |
| occupation | poet ⓘ |
| theme |
loss
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love ⓘ memory ⓘ |
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: Mermaid Description of subject: "Mermaid" is a poetry collection by British poet Christopher Reid, noted for its lyrical exploration of love, loss, and memory.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.