The Cities
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The Cities is a poetry collection by American poet Paul Blackburn that reflects his innovative, urban-centered verse and engagement with modernist and Black Mountain influences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cities canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13128270 — 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 Cities Context triple: [Paul Blackburn, notableWork, The Cities]
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A.
This City
"This City" is a song by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, released as one of the tracks on his debut album "Lycanthropy."
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B.
Cities on a Hill
Cities on a Hill is a nonfiction book by Frances FitzGerald that examines several American utopian and experimental communities to explore the ideals and contradictions of U.S. culture.
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C.
Outer City
The Outer City was the extensive outer urban area surrounding the central core of Dadu, the Yuan dynasty capital later known as Beijing.
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D.
The Meaning of the City
The Meaning of the City is a theological and sociological study by Jacques Ellul that explores the city as a symbol of human rebellion against God and a central locus of modern alienation and idolatry.
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E.
The City
The City is an American daytime soap opera that aired on ABC in the mid-1990s as a spin-off of Loving, focusing on the lives and dramas of residents in a New York City apartment building.
- 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 Cities Target entity description: The Cities is a poetry collection by American poet Paul Blackburn that reflects his innovative, urban-centered verse and engagement with modernist and Black Mountain influences.
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A.
This City
"This City" is a song by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, released as one of the tracks on his debut album "Lycanthropy."
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B.
Cities on a Hill
Cities on a Hill is a nonfiction book by Frances FitzGerald that examines several American utopian and experimental communities to explore the ideals and contradictions of U.S. culture.
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C.
Outer City
The Outer City was the extensive outer urban area surrounding the central core of Dadu, the Yuan dynasty capital later known as Beijing.
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D.
The Meaning of the City
The Meaning of the City is a theological and sociological study by Jacques Ellul that explores the city as a symbol of human rebellion against God and a central locus of modern alienation and idolatry.
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E.
The City
The City is an American daytime soap opera that aired on ABC in the mid-1990s as a spin-off of Loving, focusing on the lives and dramas of residents in a New York City apartment building.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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poetry collection ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Paul Blackburn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Paul Blackburn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasAuthorStyle | experimental verse ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | postwar American urban culture ⓘ |
| hasForm | free verse ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryInfluence | Black Mountain College poetics ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | first-person observational voice ⓘ |
| hasPoeticTechnique |
colloquial diction
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enjambment ⓘ imagistic detail ⓘ open-field composition ⓘ |
| hasSetting | modern cities ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Black Mountain poets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
cityscapes
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modern urban experience ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| notableFor |
engagement with Black Mountain influences
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engagement with modernist poetics ⓘ innovative urban-centered verse ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
The Journals (Paul Blackburn)
NERFINISHED
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The Nets (Paul Blackburn) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | literary criticism on urban modernist poetry ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Cities Description of subject: The Cities is a poetry collection by American poet Paul Blackburn that reflects his innovative, urban-centered verse and engagement with modernist and Black Mountain influences.
Referenced by (1)
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