Edward Hirsch
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Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic renowned for his accessible, emotionally resonant verse and his influential prose work "How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry."
All labels observed (1)
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| Edward Hirsch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592344 — 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: Edward Hirsch Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Edward Hirsch]
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A.
Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn was an American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner known for his accessible, reflective verse exploring everyday life and human relationships.
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B.
Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart is an acclaimed American poet known for his psychologically intense, formally inventive work that has earned him major literary honors, including the National Book Award for Poetry.
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C.
Doug Mahon
Doug Mahon is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the data storage company Seagate Technology.
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D.
Mark Strand
Mark Strand was a Pulitzer Prize–winning Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator known for his spare, meditative verse and for serving as U.S. Poet Laureate.
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E.
Donald Hall
Donald Hall was a prominent American poet, essayist, and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for his reflective, rural-themed verse and influential contributions to contemporary poetry.
- 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: Edward Hirsch Target entity description: Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic renowned for his accessible, emotionally resonant verse and his influential prose work "How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry."
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A.
Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn was an American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner known for his accessible, reflective verse exploring everyday life and human relationships.
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B.
Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart is an acclaimed American poet known for his psychologically intense, formally inventive work that has earned him major literary honors, including the National Book Award for Poetry.
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C.
Doug Mahon
Doug Mahon is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the data storage company Seagate Technology.
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D.
Mark Strand
Mark Strand was a Pulitzer Prize–winning Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator known for his spare, meditative verse and for serving as U.S. Poet Laureate.
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E.
Donald Hall
Donald Hall was a prominent American poet, essayist, and former U.S. Poet Laureate known for his reflective, rural-themed verse and influential contributions to contemporary poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educator
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essayist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
B.A. in English
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Ph.D. in folklore ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
NERFINISHED
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Guggenheim Fellowship ⓘ MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-01-20 ⓘ |
| education |
Grinnell College
NERFINISHED
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University of Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Houston
NERFINISHED
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Wayne State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hirsch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literary criticism
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poetry ⓘ |
| genre |
literary criticism
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nonfiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Emily Dickinson
NERFINISHED
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Robert Lowell NERFINISHED ⓘ W.H. Auden NERFINISHED ⓘ Walt Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Letters
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| name | Edward Hirsch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Earthly Measures
NERFINISHED
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Gabriel: A Poem NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ Lay Back the Darkness NERFINISHED ⓘ On Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Special Orders NERFINISHED ⓘ The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night Parade NERFINISHED ⓘ Wild Gratitude NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
critic
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poet ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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professor of English ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
accessible
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emotionally resonant ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Edward Hirsch Description of subject: Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic renowned for his accessible, emotionally resonant verse and his influential prose work "How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.