Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume
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Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume is the 1786 first published collection of Robert Burns’s poetry, issued in Kilmarnock and crucial in establishing his reputation as Scotland’s national poet.
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| Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume canonical | 1 |
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7246613 — 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: Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume Context triple: [Address to the Deil, partOf, Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume]
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A.
Scottish Book
The Scottish Book is a famous collection of unsolved mathematical problems compiled by members of the Lwów School of Mathematics in the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
The Bannatyne Manuscript
The Bannatyne Manuscript is a 16th-century Scottish anthology of poetry that preserves a major collection of medieval and early Renaissance Scots literature.
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C.
The Epistle to John Rankine
"The Epistle to John Rankine" is a humorous and satirical verse epistle by Scottish poet Robert Burns, written in Scots dialect and addressed to his friend John Rankine.
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D.
The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish Poem
The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish Poem is a scholarly edition and study of the early medieval Welsh heroic poem Y Gododdin, presenting it as a foundational work of Scottish literary and historical tradition.
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E.
Forbes of Pitsligo
Forbes of Pitsligo is a notable cadet branch of the Scottish Clan Forbes historically associated with the Pitsligo estate and its lairds.
- 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: Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume Target entity description: Burns’s early Kilmarnock volume is the 1786 first published collection of Robert Burns’s poetry, issued in Kilmarnock and crucial in establishing his reputation as Scotland’s national poet.
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A.
Scottish Book
The Scottish Book is a famous collection of unsolved mathematical problems compiled by members of the Lwów School of Mathematics in the 1930s and 1940s.
-
B.
The Bannatyne Manuscript
The Bannatyne Manuscript is a 16th-century Scottish anthology of poetry that preserves a major collection of medieval and early Renaissance Scots literature.
-
C.
The Epistle to John Rankine
"The Epistle to John Rankine" is a humorous and satirical verse epistle by Scottish poet Robert Burns, written in Scots dialect and addressed to his friend John Rankine.
-
D.
The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish Poem
The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish Poem is a scholarly edition and study of the early medieval Welsh heroic poem Y Gododdin, presenting it as a foundational work of Scottish literary and historical tradition.
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E.
Forbes of Pitsligo
Forbes of Pitsligo is a notable cadet branch of the Scottish Clan Forbes historically associated with the Pitsligo estate and its lairds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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poetry collection ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Kilmarnock Edition
NERFINISHED
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Kilmarnock volume NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Scottish Enlightenment cultural milieu ⓘ |
| author | Robert Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectorValue | highly prized by book collectors ⓘ |
| containsWork |
A Bard’s Epitaph
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Address to the Deil NERFINISHED ⓘ Despondency: An Ode NERFINISHED ⓘ Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet NERFINISHED ⓘ Epistle to a Young Friend NERFINISHED ⓘ Halloween NERFINISHED ⓘ Man was made to Mourn NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotch Drink NERFINISHED ⓘ The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cotter’s Saturday Night NERFINISHED ⓘ The Holy Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ The Holy Tulzie NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lament NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ordination NERFINISHED ⓘ The Twa Dogs NERFINISHED ⓘ To a Mountain Daisy NERFINISHED ⓘ To a Mouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Edinburgh edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect ⓘ |
| format | octavo ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| influenced |
Romantic poetry
ⓘ
Scottish literature ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Robert Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Kilmarnock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| printingMethod | subscription ⓘ |
| printRun | 612 copies ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1786 ⓘ |
| publisher | John Wilson of Kilmarnock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rarity | survives in relatively few copies ⓘ |
| significance |
first published collection of Robert Burns’s poetry
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helped establish Robert Burns’s reputation as Scotland’s national poet ⓘ |
| subject |
love and relationships
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religion and church politics ⓘ rural Scottish life ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| title | Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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