William Blake
E124519
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker of the Romantic era, renowned for his visionary works that combined mystical themes with innovative illustrated poetry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Blake canonical | 33 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1045918 — 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: William Blake Context triple: [Ted Hughes, influencedBy, William Blake]
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher best known for works such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."
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B.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major English Romantic poet known for his radical political views, lyrical style, and works such as "Ozymandias" and "Prometheus Unbound."
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C.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet renowned for his nature-inspired verse and for helping launch the Romantic Age in English literature.
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D.
William Morris
William Morris was a British designer, writer, and socialist activist who became a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement and a key influence on decorative arts and design in the late 19th century.
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E.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a 19th-century English poet, painter, and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, known for his richly symbolic, medieval-inspired artworks and verse.
- 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: William Blake Target entity description: William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker of the Romantic era, renowned for his visionary works that combined mystical themes with innovative illustrated poetry.
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A.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher best known for works such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."
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B.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major English Romantic poet known for his radical political views, lyrical style, and works such as "Ozymandias" and "Prometheus Unbound."
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C.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet renowned for his nature-inspired verse and for helping launch the Romantic Age in English literature.
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D.
William Morris
William Morris was a British designer, writer, and socialist activist who became a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement and a key influence on decorative arts and design in the late 19th century.
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E.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a 19th-century English poet, painter, and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, known for his richly symbolic, medieval-inspired artworks and verse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: William Blake Description of subject: William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker of the Romantic era, renowned for his visionary works that combined mystical themes with innovative illustrated poetry.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Milton