The Winding Stair
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The Winding Stair is a poem by W. B. Yeats that reflects on aging, spiritual struggle, and the cyclical nature of life through the symbol of a spiraling staircase.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Winding Stair canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10767384 — 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 Winding Stair Context triple: [The Winding Stair and Other Poems, hasPoem, The Winding Stair]
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A.
Woven Stone
Woven Stone is a poetry and prose collection by Acoma Pueblo writer Simon J. Ortiz that explores Native American identity, history, and resistance.
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B.
Thousand-Year Door
Thousand-Year Door is a mysterious ancient gateway sealed beneath Rogueport in the game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, said to guard a legendary treasure and great evil.
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C.
Tower of Glass
Tower of Glass is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of artificial intelligence, class hierarchy, and the ethics of creating sentient beings.
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D.
The Secret of the Tower
The Secret of the Tower is a lesser-known adventure novel by British author Anthony Hope, best known for his classic romance The Prisoner of Zenda.
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E.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
- 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 Winding Stair Target entity description: The Winding Stair is a poem by W. B. Yeats that reflects on aging, spiritual struggle, and the cyclical nature of life through the symbol of a spiraling staircase.
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A.
Woven Stone
Woven Stone is a poetry and prose collection by Acoma Pueblo writer Simon J. Ortiz that explores Native American identity, history, and resistance.
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B.
Thousand-Year Door
Thousand-Year Door is a mysterious ancient gateway sealed beneath Rogueport in the game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, said to guard a legendary treasure and great evil.
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C.
Tower of Glass
Tower of Glass is a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of artificial intelligence, class hierarchy, and the ethics of creating sentient beings.
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D.
The Secret of the Tower
The Secret of the Tower is a lesser-known adventure novel by British author Anthony Hope, best known for his classic romance The Prisoner of Zenda.
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E.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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poem ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Irish literature
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symbolist poetry ⓘ |
| author |
W. B. Yeats
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linked to:
W.B. Yeats
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| concerns |
memory
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repetition and return ⓘ spiritual transcendence ⓘ time ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| createdBy |
William Butler Yeats
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linked to:
W.B. Yeats
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| depicts |
inner conflict
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reflection on mortality ⓘ search for spiritual meaning ⓘ |
| explores |
pattern of recurrence in life
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relationship between body and soul ⓘ tension between ascent and descent ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm | stanzaic poem ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
spiritual crisis
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the poet’s later life ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Winding Stair ⓘ |
| imagery |
circular motion
ⓘ
vertical ascent and descent ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Yeats’s mystical and occult interests
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Yeats’s personal aging ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice | symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| meter | varied meter ⓘ |
| movement | Modernism ⓘ |
| partOf | Yeats’s late poetry ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | irregular rhyme ⓘ |
| symbol | spiraling staircase ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
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cyclical nature of life ⓘ spiritual struggle ⓘ |
| tone |
meditative
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philosophical ⓘ somber ⓘ |
| writer |
W. B. Yeats
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linked to:
W.B. Yeats
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Winding Stair Description of subject: The Winding Stair is a poem by W. B. Yeats that reflects on aging, spiritual struggle, and the cyclical nature of life through the symbol of a spiraling staircase.
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