poem "Fears"
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"Fears" is a poem whose text was used as one of the literary sources for Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| poem "Fears" canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11701031 — 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: poem "Fears" Context triple: [Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar", textSource, poem "Fears"]
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A.
poem "The Faith"
"The Faith" is a poem by Leonard Cohen included in his 2006 poetry collection *Book of Longing*, reflecting his characteristic blend of spiritual inquiry, irony, and lyrical intimacy.
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B.
Three Poems
Three Poems is a 1972 experimental prose-poetry collection by John Ashbery that explores consciousness, language, and perception in three extended, meditative pieces.
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C.
poem "Crow's Fall"
"Crow's Fall" is a poem from Ted Hughes's dark, mythic Crow sequence, exploring themes of violence, transformation, and the grotesque through the figure of Crow.
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D.
poem "Examination at the Womb-Door"
"Examination at the Womb-Door" is a dark, existential poem by Ted Hughes from his Crow sequence, in which a questioning voice interrogates the nature of life, death, and identity.
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E.
Poemata
Poemata is a collection of Latin poems by the Swiss polymath Albrecht von Haller, reflecting his prominence in 18th-century scientific and literary circles.
- 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: poem "Fears" Target entity description: "Fears" is a poem whose text was used as one of the literary sources for Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar."
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A.
poem "The Faith"
"The Faith" is a poem by Leonard Cohen included in his 2006 poetry collection *Book of Longing*, reflecting his characteristic blend of spiritual inquiry, irony, and lyrical intimacy.
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B.
Three Poems
Three Poems is a 1972 experimental prose-poetry collection by John Ashbery that explores consciousness, language, and perception in three extended, meditative pieces.
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C.
poem "Crow's Fall"
"Crow's Fall" is a poem from Ted Hughes's dark, mythic Crow sequence, exploring themes of violence, transformation, and the grotesque through the figure of Crow.
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D.
poem "Examination at the Womb-Door"
"Examination at the Womb-Door" is a dark, existential poem by Ted Hughes from his Crow sequence, in which a questioning voice interrogates the nature of life, death, and identity.
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E.
Poemata
Poemata is a collection of Latin poems by the Swiss polymath Albrecht von Haller, reflecting his prominence in 18th-century scientific and literary circles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Babi Yar (subject of Symphony No. 13)
ⓘ
linked to:
Babi Yar
Dmitri Shostakovich ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| hasForm | poetry ⓘ |
| hasGenre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fear
ⓘ
oppression ⓘ political repression ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| influenced | Soviet-era classical music ⓘ |
| isPartOf | literary sources of Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" ⓘ |
| language | Russian ⓘ |
| literarySourceFor |
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13
ⓘ
linked to:
Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)
Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" ⓘ |
| medium | text ⓘ |
| partOf | cycle of poems used in Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" ⓘ |
| usedAs | text for a movement of Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" ⓘ |
| usedIn |
choral symphony
ⓘ
vocal-symphonic work ⓘ |
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: poem "Fears" Description of subject: "Fears" is a poem whose text was used as one of the literary sources for Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" by Dmitri Shostakovich