The Red Wheelbarrow
E610612
The Red Wheelbarrow is a brief, imagist poem by William Carlos Williams that emphasizes the beauty and significance of ordinary objects through vivid, minimalist imagery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Red Wheelbarrow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6697488 — 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 Red Wheelbarrow Context triple: [William Carlos Williams, notableWork, The Red Wheelbarrow]
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A.
Birches
"Birches" is a celebrated poem by Robert Frost that reflects on youth, nature, and the desire to escape reality through the image of a boy swinging on birch trees.
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B.
The Snow-Image
The Snow-Image is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that blends fantasy and moral reflection in the tale of two children who create a living figure from snow.
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C.
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass" is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that vividly personifies a snake encountered in nature, exploring themes of fear, fascination, and the uncanny in the natural world.
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D.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough" is a famous opening line from Edward FitzGerald’s English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, evoking an ideal of simple, contemplative pleasure in nature.
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E.
Spring and Fall
"Spring and Fall" is a lyric poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that meditates on innocence, mortality, and the inevitable sorrow that comes with human awareness of death.
- 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 Red Wheelbarrow Target entity description: The Red Wheelbarrow is a brief, imagist poem by William Carlos Williams that emphasizes the beauty and significance of ordinary objects through vivid, minimalist imagery.
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A.
Birches
"Birches" is a celebrated poem by Robert Frost that reflects on youth, nature, and the desire to escape reality through the image of a boy swinging on birch trees.
-
B.
The Snow-Image
The Snow-Image is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that blends fantasy and moral reflection in the tale of two children who create a living figure from snow.
-
C.
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass" is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that vividly personifies a snake encountered in nature, exploring themes of fear, fascination, and the uncanny in the natural world.
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D.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough" is a famous opening line from Edward FitzGerald’s English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, evoking an ideal of simple, contemplative pleasure in nature.
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E.
Spring and Fall
"Spring and Fall" is a lyric poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that meditates on innocence, mortality, and the inevitable sorrow that comes with human awareness of death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorWork | objectivist tendencies of William Carlos Williams ⓘ |
| author | William Carlos Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfComposition | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | highly influential in modern American poetry ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
the beauty of ordinary objects
ⓘ
the significance of the commonplace ⓘ |
| firstLine | so much depends ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1923 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Spring and All NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
concrete imagery
ⓘ
visual detail ⓘ |
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasFamousOpening | so much depends upon ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Imagist principles ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lineCount | 16 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Imagism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Modernism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | unmetered ⓘ |
| notableImage |
rainwater
ⓘ
red wheelbarrow NERFINISHED ⓘ white chickens ⓘ |
| oftenAnthologized | yes ⓘ |
| poeticTechnique |
economy of language
ⓘ
enjambment ⓘ line breaks to shape perception ⓘ |
| publication | Spring and All NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationType | book of poetry and prose ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | none ⓘ |
| setting | rural or semi-rural scene ⓘ |
| stanzaCount | 4 ⓘ |
| stanzaForm | two-line stanzas ⓘ |
| style |
imagistic
ⓘ
minimalist ⓘ |
| taughtIn |
American literature courses
ⓘ
poetry courses ⓘ |
| theme |
everyday life
ⓘ
importance of ordinary objects ⓘ minimalism in art ⓘ perception and attention ⓘ |
| usesCapitalization | no ⓘ |
| usesPunctuation | no ⓘ |
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: The Red Wheelbarrow Description of subject: The Red Wheelbarrow is a brief, imagist poem by William Carlos Williams that emphasizes the beauty and significance of ordinary objects through vivid, minimalist imagery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.