Shall We Gather at the River
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"Shall We Gather at the River" is a celebrated poem by American poet James Wright, known for its lyrical meditation on memory, loss, and the Midwestern landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shall We Gather at the River canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7425414 — 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: Shall We Gather at the River Context triple: [James Wright, notableWork, Shall We Gather at the River]
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A.
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is a famous 18th-century Christian Christmas carol, widely sung during the holiday season for its celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
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B.
Holy Willie's Prayer
"Holy Willie's Prayer" is a satirical Scots-language poem by Robert Burns that mocks religious hypocrisy and self-righteous Calvinism through the dramatic monologue of a sanctimonious church elder.
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C.
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
"Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" is a famous 18th-century Christian Easter hymn celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, widely sung in churches across the English-speaking world.
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D.
O Gladsome Light (Phos Hilaron)
O Gladsome Light (Phos Hilaron) is an ancient Christian evening hymn, traditionally sung at Vespers to honor Christ as the Light of the world.
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E.
Nearer, My God
"Nearer, My God" is a reflective spiritual and autobiographical book by conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. that explores his Catholic faith and personal beliefs.
- 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: Shall We Gather at the River Target entity description: "Shall We Gather at the River" is a celebrated poem by American poet James Wright, known for its lyrical meditation on memory, loss, and the Midwestern landscape.
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A.
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is a famous 18th-century Christian Christmas carol, widely sung during the holiday season for its celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
-
B.
Holy Willie's Prayer
"Holy Willie's Prayer" is a satirical Scots-language poem by Robert Burns that mocks religious hypocrisy and self-righteous Calvinism through the dramatic monologue of a sanctimonious church elder.
-
C.
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
"Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" is a famous 18th-century Christian Easter hymn celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, widely sung in churches across the English-speaking world.
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D.
O Gladsome Light (Phos Hilaron)
O Gladsome Light (Phos Hilaron) is an ancient Christian evening hymn, traditionally sung at Vespers to honor Christ as the Light of the world.
-
E.
Nearer, My God
"Nearer, My God" is a reflective spiritual and autobiographical book by conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. that explores his Catholic faith and personal beliefs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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poem ⓘ |
| author | James Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | James Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts | Midwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| explores |
emotional loss
ⓘ
personal memory ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasLyricalStyle | true ⓘ |
| hasSetting | American Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Shall We Gather at the River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American poetry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
evocative imagery
ⓘ
meditative tone ⓘ |
| subject |
grief
ⓘ
human experience of time ⓘ remembrance ⓘ |
| theme |
Midwestern landscape
ⓘ
loss ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| writtenBy | James Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Shall We Gather at the River Description of subject: "Shall We Gather at the River" is a celebrated poem by American poet James Wright, known for its lyrical meditation on memory, loss, and the Midwestern landscape.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James Wright