Lilacs
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"Lilacs" is a notable work by American composer George Walker, recognized for its poignant musical setting of Walt Whitman’s elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lilacs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10174060 — 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: Lilacs Context triple: [George Walker, notableWork, Lilacs]
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A.
Lilacs
"Lilacs" is a short story by Kate Chopin, included in her 1897 collection *A Night in Acadie*, that reflects her characteristic focus on intimate emotional experiences and Creole life.
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B.
Phlox
Phlox is the Denobulan chief medical officer aboard the starship Enterprise in the television series "Star Trek: Enterprise."
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C.
Bellflower
Bellflower is a suburban city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to major urban centers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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D.
Violets
Violets are the athletic teams representing New York University in intercollegiate sports.
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E.
Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle is a waterfront precinct in Newcastle, New South Wales, known for its dining, entertainment, and proximity to the city’s light rail network.
- 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: Lilacs Target entity description: "Lilacs" is a notable work by American composer George Walker, recognized for its poignant musical setting of Walt Whitman’s elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
Lilacs
"Lilacs" is a short story by Kate Chopin, included in her 1897 collection *A Night in Acadie*, that reflects her characteristic focus on intimate emotional experiences and Creole life.
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B.
Phlox
Phlox is the Denobulan chief medical officer aboard the starship Enterprise in the television series "Star Trek: Enterprise."
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C.
Bellflower
Bellflower is a suburban city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to major urban centers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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D.
Violets
Violets are the athletic teams representing New York University in intercollegiate sports.
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E.
Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle is a waterfront precinct in Newcastle, New South Wales, known for its dining, entertainment, and proximity to the city’s light rail network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | musical composition ⓘ |
| basedOn | When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | George Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composerNationality | American ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dedicatedTo | memory of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| genre |
classical music
ⓘ
vocal-orchestral work ⓘ |
| hasInfluence | American concert repertoire ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation | voice and orchestra ⓘ |
| hasLiterarySourceAuthor | Walt Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chorus
ⓘ
orchestra ⓘ soprano solo ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
American Civil War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
mourning ⓘ remembrance ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasVocalForces |
chorus
ⓘ
soprano ⓘ |
| languageOfText | English ⓘ |
| movementType | continuous ⓘ |
| notableFor | poignant musical setting of Walt Whitman’s elegy on Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| partOfTradition | American art music ⓘ |
| subject | death of Abraham Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| textAuthor | Walt Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| textType | elegy ⓘ |
| usesPoem | When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Lilacs Description of subject: "Lilacs" is a notable work by American composer George Walker, recognized for its poignant musical setting of Walt Whitman’s elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.