About the House
E121563
"About the House" is a 1965 poetry collection by W. H. Auden that reflects on domestic life, memory, and the passage of time through the organizing metaphor of a house.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| About the House canonical | 2 |
| About the House (title sequence) | 1 |
| The Geography of the House | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1016350 — 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: About the House Context triple: [W. H. Auden, notableWork, About the House]
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A.
The Old House
The Old House is a painting by British artist L. S. Lowry, known for his distinctive depictions of urban and industrial scenes in mid-20th-century northern England.
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B.
The Bedroom
The Bedroom is a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his simple, brightly colored bedroom in Arles, celebrated for its bold color, distorted perspective, and emotional intensity characteristic of Post-Impressionism.
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C.
The City of Homes
The City of Homes is a nickname for Springfield, Massachusetts, highlighting its historic residential architecture and notable stock of well-preserved houses.
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D.
The Hedges
The Hedges is a historic Adirondack Great Camp on Blue Mountain Lake in New York, known for its rustic architecture and role as a classic North Country wilderness retreat.
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E.
The Hill
The Hill is a famous public vantage point overlooking Epsom Downs Racecourse, known for offering free, expansive views of major horse racing events like The Derby.
- 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: About the House Target entity description: "About the House" is a 1965 poetry collection by W. H. Auden that reflects on domestic life, memory, and the passage of time through the organizing metaphor of a house.
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A.
The Old House
The Old House is a painting by British artist L. S. Lowry, known for his distinctive depictions of urban and industrial scenes in mid-20th-century northern England.
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B.
The Bedroom
The Bedroom is a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his simple, brightly colored bedroom in Arles, celebrated for its bold color, distorted perspective, and emotional intensity characteristic of Post-Impressionism.
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C.
The City of Homes
The City of Homes is a nickname for Springfield, Massachusetts, highlighting its historic residential architecture and notable stock of well-preserved houses.
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D.
The Hedges
The Hedges is a historic Adirondack Great Camp on Blue Mountain Lake in New York, known for its rustic architecture and role as a classic North Country wilderness retreat.
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E.
The Hill
The Hill is a famous public vantage point overlooking Epsom Downs Racecourse, known for offering free, expansive views of major horse racing events like The Derby.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | W. H. Auden ⓘ |
| centralMetaphor | house ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| firstEditionPublisher | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| followedBy | City Without Walls and Other Poems ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm | sequence of interrelated poems ⓘ |
| hasPoem |
A Bad Night
ⓘ
A New Year Greeting ⓘ About the House self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
About the House (title sequence)
Thanksgiving for a Habitat ⓘ The Aliens ⓘ The Cave of Making ⓘ The Common Life ⓘ About the House self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Geography of the House
Horatii brothers ⓘ
surface form:
The Horatians
The Sabbath ⓘ The Song of the Master and Boatswain ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
aging
ⓘ
art and creativity ⓘ domestic space ⓘ ethics ⓘ everyday life ⓘ friendship ⓘ literary memory ⓘ personal history ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Auden’s life in Austria
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Auden’s reflections on aging and mortality ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernist poetry ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| notableFor |
late style of W. H. Auden
ⓘ
use of a house as an organizing metaphor ⓘ |
| partOf | late works of W. H. Auden ⓘ |
| poet | W. H. Auden ⓘ |
| precededBy | Homage to Clio ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| publisher | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| setting | Auden’s house in Kirchstetten, Austria ⓘ |
| structure | organized around rooms and spaces of a house ⓘ |
| subjectOf | literary criticism on Auden’s late poetry ⓘ |
| theme |
domestic life
ⓘ
memory ⓘ passage of time ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: About the House Description of subject: "About the House" is a 1965 poetry collection by W. H. Auden that reflects on domestic life, memory, and the passage of time through the organizing metaphor of a house.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
About the House (title sequence)
this entity surface form:
The Geography of the House