The Opening of the Field
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The Opening of the Field is a landmark 1960 poetry collection by Robert Duncan that helped define the innovative, myth-infused poetics of the San Francisco Renaissance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Opening of the Field canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2902652 — 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: The Opening of the Field Context triple: [San Francisco Renaissance, hasNotableWork, The Opening of the Field]
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A.
The Opening
The Opening is the English title of Surah Al-Fatiha, the first chapter of the Qur’an that serves as a fundamental prayer in Islamic worship.
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B.
Across the Field
"Across the Field" is a traditional fight song of The Ohio State University, prominently played at athletic events to rally support for the Buckeyes.
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C.
A Stricken Field
A Stricken Field is a 1940 novel by war correspondent Martha Gellhorn that portrays the turmoil and human cost of Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia.
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D.
The Cornfield
The Cornfield is a historically significant field at Antietam where some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the American Civil War occurred.
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E.
The Tilled Field
The Tilled Field is a seminal 1923–24 surrealist painting by Joan Miró that marks his transition from detailed realism to a highly personal, symbolic, and abstract visual language.
- 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: The Opening of the Field Target entity description: The Opening of the Field is a landmark 1960 poetry collection by Robert Duncan that helped define the innovative, myth-infused poetics of the San Francisco Renaissance.
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A.
The Opening
The Opening is the English title of Surah Al-Fatiha, the first chapter of the Qur’an that serves as a fundamental prayer in Islamic worship.
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B.
Across the Field
"Across the Field" is a traditional fight song of The Ohio State University, prominently played at athletic events to rally support for the Buckeyes.
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C.
A Stricken Field
A Stricken Field is a 1940 novel by war correspondent Martha Gellhorn that portrays the turmoil and human cost of Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia.
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D.
The Cornfield
The Cornfield is a historically significant field at Antietam where some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the American Civil War occurred.
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E.
The Tilled Field
The Tilled Field is a seminal 1923–24 surrealist painting by Joan Miró that marks his transition from detailed realism to a highly personal, symbolic, and abstract visual language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
poetry collection ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Black Mountain–influenced poetics
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projective verse tradition ⓘ |
| author | Robert Duncan ⓘ |
| contributedTo | recognition of Robert Duncan as a major American poet ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReputation |
landmark work of the San Francisco Renaissance
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major work of 20th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Bending the Bow
ⓘ
Roots and Branches ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm |
free verse
ⓘ
open-field composition ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
Language poets
ⓘ
New American Poetry ⓘ
surface form:
New American Poetry tradition
later experimental and avant-garde poets in the United States ⓘ |
| hasPoeticStyle |
innovative poetics
ⓘ
myth-infused poetics ⓘ |
| influenced | postwar American poetry ⓘ |
| isConsidered | a central text in Robert Duncan’s oeuvre ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | San Francisco Renaissance ⓘ |
| notablePoem | Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow ⓘ |
| partOf | Robert Duncan’s later-life trilogy of major collections ⓘ |
| periodOfComposition | 1950s ⓘ |
| poeticTechnique |
long-lined verse
ⓘ
lyric sequences ⓘ serial composition ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| publisher | Grove Press ⓘ |
| setting | largely interior and visionary landscapes ⓘ |
| theme |
cosmology
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history ⓘ love ⓘ myth ⓘ the imagination ⓘ |
| usesIntertextualityWith |
literary predecessors such as Ezra Pound
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literary predecessors such as H.D. ⓘ mythological sources ⓘ occult and esoteric traditions ⓘ |
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