A Prayer for My Daughter
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"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a lyric poem by W. B. Yeats that reflects on his hopes and fears for his newborn daughter amid the turmoil and violence of the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Prayer for My Daughter canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10767344 — 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: A Prayer for My Daughter Context triple: [The Tower, containsPoem, A Prayer for My Daughter]
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A.
The Daughter
The Daughter is a 2015 Australian drama film, adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s play "The Wild Duck," that explores buried family secrets and emotional fallout in a small town.
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B.
Not Without My Daughter
Not Without My Daughter is a 1991 drama film based on Betty Mahmoody’s memoir, depicting an American woman’s harrowing attempt to escape Iran with her young daughter from an abusive marriage.
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C.
A Daughter’s Tale
A Daughter’s Tale is the memoir of Mary Soames, the youngest child of Winston and Clementine Churchill, recounting her family life and experiences during World War II.
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D.
A Prayer
"A Prayer" is a poem by James Joyce included in his 1927 collection *Pomes Penyeach*.
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E.
With a Daughter’s Eye
With a Daughter’s Eye is a reflective memoir and intellectual biography in which anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson explores the lives and work of her famous parents, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, through her own perspective as their daughter.
- 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: A Prayer for My Daughter Target entity description: "A Prayer for My Daughter" is a lyric poem by W. B. Yeats that reflects on his hopes and fears for his newborn daughter amid the turmoil and violence of the early 20th century.
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A.
The Daughter
The Daughter is a 2015 Australian drama film, adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s play "The Wild Duck," that explores buried family secrets and emotional fallout in a small town.
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B.
Not Without My Daughter
Not Without My Daughter is a 1991 drama film based on Betty Mahmoody’s memoir, depicting an American woman’s harrowing attempt to escape Iran with her young daughter from an abusive marriage.
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C.
A Daughter’s Tale
A Daughter’s Tale is the memoir of Mary Soames, the youngest child of Winston and Clementine Churchill, recounting her family life and experiences during World War II.
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D.
A Prayer
"A Prayer" is a poem by James Joyce included in his 1927 collection *Pomes Penyeach*.
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E.
With a Daughter’s Eye
With a Daughter’s Eye is a reflective memoir and intellectual biography in which anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson explores the lives and work of her famous parents, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, through her own perspective as their daughter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lyric poem
ⓘ
poem ⓘ |
| addressee | Yeats’s infant daughter ⓘ |
| author |
W. B. Yeats
ⓘ
linked to:
W.B. Yeats
|
| collection | Michael Robartes and the Dancer ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
sea and wind
ⓘ
storm as symbol of chaos ⓘ tower as symbol of retreat ⓘ trees and woods ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1921 ⓘ |
| focusesOn | moral and spiritual qualities desired for the daughter ⓘ |
| form | rhymed lyric ⓘ |
| genre | modernist poetry ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | 20th-century English-language poetry ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Irish War of Independence
ⓘ
post–World War I Europe ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | birth of Yeats’s daughter Anne ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Irish Literary Revival
ⓘ
Modernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacterType | lyric speaker (father) ⓘ |
| meter | iambic pentameter (predominantly) ⓘ |
| numberOfStanzas | 10 ⓘ |
| partOf | Yeats’s later poetry ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstBookAppearance |
Macmillan (London)
ⓘ
linked to:
Macmillan and Co.
|
| relatedWork |
Easter 1916
ⓘ
The Second Coming ⓘ The Wild Swans at Coole ⓘ |
| setting | storm during the Irish War of Independence ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
literary criticism
ⓘ
poetry anthologies ⓘ university syllabi ⓘ |
| theme |
beauty and its dangers
ⓘ
fatherhood ⓘ hope for the future ⓘ innocence and protection ⓘ marriage and domestic happiness ⓘ parental anxiety ⓘ spiritual values ⓘ tradition versus modernity ⓘ violence and political turmoil ⓘ |
| tone |
anxious
ⓘ
meditative ⓘ prayerful ⓘ |
| wishesFor | peaceful domestic life for the daughter ⓘ |
| writer |
W. B. Yeats
ⓘ
linked to:
W.B. Yeats
|
| writtenInYear | 1919 ⓘ |
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Referenced by (6)
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