Cecil Day-Lewis
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Cecil Day-Lewis was a prominent 20th-century Anglo-Irish poet and novelist who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cecil Day-Lewis canonical | 7 |
| Cecil Day Lewis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105703 — 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: Cecil Day-Lewis Context triple: [Daniel Day-Lewis, father, Cecil Day-Lewis]
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A.
Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice was a 20th-century Irish-born British poet and playwright associated with the Auden Group, known for his lyrical, socially aware verse and radio dramas.
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B.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot was a seminal 20th-century poet, critic, and playwright, best known for works such as "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets," which profoundly influenced modernist literature.
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William Greenleaf Eliot
William Greenleaf Eliot was a 19th-century American Unitarian minister, educator, and civic leader in St. Louis who played a key role in the city’s cultural and educational development.
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D.
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright best known for his series of novels collectively titled "The Forsyte Saga," which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
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W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden was a major 20th-century Anglo-American poet known for his technical virtuosity, moral and political engagement, and wide-ranging influence on modern 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: Cecil Day-Lewis Target entity description: Cecil Day-Lewis was a prominent 20th-century Anglo-Irish poet and novelist who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
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A.
Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice was a 20th-century Irish-born British poet and playwright associated with the Auden Group, known for his lyrical, socially aware verse and radio dramas.
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B.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot was a seminal 20th-century poet, critic, and playwright, best known for works such as "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets," which profoundly influenced modernist literature.
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C.
William Greenleaf Eliot
William Greenleaf Eliot was a 19th-century American Unitarian minister, educator, and civic leader in St. Louis who played a key role in the city’s cultural and educational development.
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D.
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright best known for his series of novels collectively titled "The Forsyte Saga," which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
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E.
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden was a major 20th-century Anglo-American poet known for his technical virtuosity, moral and political engagement, and wide-ranging influence on modern poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Cecil Day-Lewis Description of subject: Cecil Day-Lewis was a prominent 20th-century Anglo-Irish poet and novelist who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cecil Day Lewis