negative capability
E233711
Negative capability is a literary and philosophical concept describing the capacity to remain in uncertainty, doubt, and ambiguity without the compulsive need for logical resolution or factual certainty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| negative capability canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2103229 — 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: negative capability Context triple: [John Keats, coinage, negative capability]
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.no
.no is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Norway for use in its internet addresses.
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nan
nan is the ISO 639-3 language code assigned to the Teochew (Chaoshan) Chinese language variety spoken primarily in eastern Guangdong, China, and among overseas Chinese communities.
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C.
negative feedback amplifier
A negative feedback amplifier is an electronic amplifier design that feeds a portion of its output back to its input in opposition to reduce distortion, stabilize gain, and improve overall performance.
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NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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NE
NE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Niger.
- 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: negative capability Target entity description: Negative capability is a literary and philosophical concept describing the capacity to remain in uncertainty, doubt, and ambiguity without the compulsive need for logical resolution or factual certainty.
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A.
.no
.no is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Norway for use in its internet addresses.
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B.
nan
nan is the ISO 639-3 language code assigned to the Teochew (Chaoshan) Chinese language variety spoken primarily in eastern Guangdong, China, and among overseas Chinese communities.
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C.
negative feedback amplifier
A negative feedback amplifier is an electronic amplifier design that feeds a portion of its output back to its input in opposition to reduce distortion, stabilize gain, and improve overall performance.
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D.
NE
NE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Niger.
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E.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aesthetic concept
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literary concept ⓘ philosophical concept ⓘ |
| appliedIn |
aesthetic judgment
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creative writing pedagogy ⓘ fiction writing ⓘ philosophy of knowledge ⓘ poetry interpretation ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
aesthetic receptivity
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epistemic humility ⓘ imaginative openness ⓘ negative theology ⓘ poetic creativity ⓘ romanticism ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
acceptance of uncertainty
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openness to multiple meanings ⓘ resistance to premature intellectual closure ⓘ suspension of the demand for logical resolution ⓘ tolerance of ambiguity ⓘ |
| coinedBy | John Keats ⓘ |
| coinedIn | 1817 ⓘ |
| contextOfOrigin | English Romantic poetry ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
didacticism in literature
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dogmatic certainty ⓘ rationalism ⓘ systematic philosophy ⓘ |
| definedAs | capacity to remain in uncertainty, doubt, and ambiguity without seeking immediate resolution ⓘ |
| developedInResponseTo | perceived limitations of Enlightenment rationality ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
experience over explanation
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intuition over rigid logic ⓘ process over conclusion ⓘ |
| firstDescribedIn | a letter from John Keats to his brothers George and Tom Keats ⓘ |
| hasNotableExpositor |
Paul de Man
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Walter Jackson Bate ⓘ |
| influenced |
certain strands of psychoanalytic literary criticism
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literary modernism ⓘ reader-response criticism ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
aesthetic theory
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existential philosophy ⓘ postmodern literary criticism ⓘ psychoanalytic theory ⓘ romantic literary theory ⓘ |
| requires |
capacity to hold conflicting ideas
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comfort with incomplete understanding ⓘ suspension of disbelief ⓘ |
| supports |
metaphorical thinking
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non-linear thinking ⓘ open-ended interpretation ⓘ |
| viewedAs |
counter to the desire for totalizing systems
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virtue in poetic composition ⓘ |
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: negative capability Description of subject: Negative capability is a literary and philosophical concept describing the capacity to remain in uncertainty, doubt, and ambiguity without the compulsive need for logical resolution or factual certainty.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.