The Whitsun Weddings
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The Whitsun Weddings is a celebrated poetry collection by Philip Larkin that captures postwar English life through observant, often melancholic reflections on ordinary experiences and relationships.
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| The Whitsun Weddings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317206 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Whitsun Weddings Context triple: [Philip Larkin, notableWork, The Whitsun Weddings]
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Garden Party
"Garden Party" is a 1972 country rock song by Ricky Nelson reflecting on his experience of being booed at a Madison Square Garden concert for playing new material instead of his early hits.
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Garden Party
"Garden Party" is a live album by British rock band Marillion, featuring performances of their early neo-progressive rock material.
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C.
Women in Love
Women in Love is a 1920 novel by D. H. Lawrence that explores complex emotional, sexual, and philosophical relationships between two sisters and their lovers in early 20th-century England.
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D.
The Wedding-Knell
"The Wedding-Knell" is a short Gothic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of death, aging, and the macabre intrusion of the grave into a belated marriage ceremony.
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The Wedding
"The Wedding" is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtship, marriage, and social manners.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Whitsun Weddings Target entity description: The Whitsun Weddings is a celebrated poetry collection by Philip Larkin that captures postwar English life through observant, often melancholic reflections on ordinary experiences and relationships.
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A.
Garden Party
"Garden Party" is a 1972 country rock song by Ricky Nelson reflecting on his experience of being booed at a Madison Square Garden concert for playing new material instead of his early hits.
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B.
Garden Party
"Garden Party" is a live album by British rock band Marillion, featuring performances of their early neo-progressive rock material.
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C.
Women in Love
Women in Love is a 1920 novel by D. H. Lawrence that explores complex emotional, sexual, and philosophical relationships between two sisters and their lovers in early 20th-century England.
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D.
The Wedding-Knell
"The Wedding-Knell" is a short Gothic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of death, aging, and the macabre intrusion of the grave into a belated marriage ceremony.
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E.
The Wedding
"The Wedding" is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtship, marriage, and social manners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | Philip Larkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | highly acclaimed ⓘ |
| firstEditionPublicationYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| follows | The Less Deceived NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0571097107 ⓘ |
| hasPoem |
A Study of Reading Habits
NERFINISHED
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Afternoons NERFINISHED ⓘ Ambulances NERFINISHED ⓘ An Arundel Tomb NERFINISHED ⓘ Broadcast NERFINISHED ⓘ Days ⓘ Dockery and Son NERFINISHED ⓘ Here NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Songs in Age NERFINISHED ⓘ MCMXIV NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr Bleaney NERFINISHED ⓘ Nothing to be Said NERFINISHED ⓘ Reference Back ⓘ Self's the Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Take One Home for the Kiddies NERFINISHED ⓘ Talking in Bed NERFINISHED ⓘ The Whitsun Weddings (poem) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | Philip Larkin's major works ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postwar British poetry ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of postwar English life
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detailed social observation ⓘ exploration of ordinary experiences ⓘ |
| period | post–Second World War ⓘ |
| precedes | High Windows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| publisher | Faber and Faber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | postwar England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
class and society
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marriage ⓘ memory ⓘ ordinary life ⓘ social change ⓘ time and transience ⓘ |
| titlePoem | The Whitsun Weddings (poem) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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melancholic ⓘ observant ⓘ |
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