Elizabeth Alexander
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Elizabeth Alexander is an American poet, scholar, and former inaugural poet known for her work exploring race, history, and memory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elizabeth Alexander canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14649417 — 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: Elizabeth Alexander Context triple: [Faces of America, hasParticipant, Elizabeth Alexander]
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A.
Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander was the wife of American portrait and mural painter John White Alexander, associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century art world.
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B.
Rita Dove
Rita Dove is an acclaimed American poet and essayist who served as U.S. Poet Laureate and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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C.
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for exploring themes of memory, race, and the American South.
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D.
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is an acclaimed American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate whose work explores history, identity, and the cosmos.
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E.
Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson is an acclaimed American poet, translator, and educator known for her historically engaged, formally adept verse and numerous honors recognizing her contributions to contemporary poetry.
- 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: Elizabeth Alexander Target entity description: Elizabeth Alexander is an American poet, scholar, and former inaugural poet known for her work exploring race, history, and memory.
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A.
Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander was the wife of American portrait and mural painter John White Alexander, associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century art world.
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B.
Rita Dove
Rita Dove is an acclaimed American poet and essayist who served as U.S. Poet Laureate and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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C.
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for exploring themes of memory, race, and the American South.
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D.
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is an acclaimed American poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate whose work explores history, identity, and the cosmos.
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E.
Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson is an acclaimed American poet, translator, and educator known for her historically engaged, formally adept verse and numerous honors recognizing her contributions to contemporary poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.