Ulysses
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"Ulysses" is a dramatic monologue poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that reflects on aging, heroism, and the restless desire for continued adventure and purpose.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ulysses canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2605057 — 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: Ulysses Context triple: [Alfred, Lord Tennyson, notableWork, Ulysses]
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A.
Ulysses
Ulysses is a small town in Tompkins County, New York, known for its rural character and proximity to Cayuga Lake and the Finger Lakes region.
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B.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is James Joyce’s experimental modernist novel renowned for its dense, multilingual wordplay and radically unconventional narrative style.
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C.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a modernist novel tracing the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus, widely regarded as James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age work.
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D.
James Joyce's Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.
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E.
Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of short stories by James Joyce that portrays the everyday lives and moral paralysis of Dublin’s middle and lower classes in the early 20th century.
- 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: Ulysses Target entity description: "Ulysses" is a dramatic monologue poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that reflects on aging, heroism, and the restless desire for continued adventure and purpose.
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A.
Ulysses
Ulysses is a small town in Tompkins County, New York, known for its rural character and proximity to Cayuga Lake and the Finger Lakes region.
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B.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is James Joyce’s experimental modernist novel renowned for its dense, multilingual wordplay and radically unconventional narrative style.
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C.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a modernist novel tracing the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus, widely regarded as James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age work.
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D.
James Joyce's Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.
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E.
Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of short stories by James Joyce that portrays the everyday lives and moral paralysis of Dublin’s middle and lower classes in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatic monologue
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poem ⓘ |
| addressee |
the mariners
ⓘ
the reader ⓘ |
| author | Alfred, Lord Tennyson ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterFrom |
Homeric epic tradition
ⓘ
Homer's Odyssey ⓘ
surface form:
The Odyssey
|
| centralThemes |
aging
ⓘ
conflict between duty and desire ⓘ desire for adventure ⓘ heroism ⓘ identity ⓘ leadership ⓘ mortality ⓘ restlessness ⓘ search for purpose ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1842 ⓘ |
| form | dramatic monologue ⓘ |
| genre |
Victorian literature
ⓘ
surface form:
Victorian poetry
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| inCanonOf | major works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson ⓘ |
| influence | modern reflections on aging and heroism ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | classical mythology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevices |
allusion
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enjambment ⓘ imagery ⓘ irony ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| mentionsCharacter |
Penelope
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Telemachus ⓘ |
| meter | blank verse ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first-person ⓘ |
| notableLine | To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ⓘ |
| oftenAnthologized | yes ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcerns |
meaning of life in old age
ⓘ
persistence of the heroic spirit ⓘ |
| poet | Alfred, Lord Tennyson ⓘ |
| publishedInCollection | Poems (1842) ⓘ |
| setting | Ithaca ⓘ |
| speaker |
Odysseus
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Ulysses self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| structure | single continuous speech ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | the later life of Ulysses after his return to Ithaca ⓘ |
| tone |
defiant
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melancholic ⓘ reflective ⓘ |
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Subject: Ulysses Description of subject: "Ulysses" is a dramatic monologue poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that reflects on aging, heroism, and the restless desire for continued adventure and purpose.
Referenced by (4)
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subject surface form:
Alfred Tennyson