Beat! Beat! Drums!

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poem

"Beat! Beat! Drums!" is a Civil War–era poem by Walt Whitman that vividly portrays the disruptive, all-consuming impact of war on everyday life.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Beat! Beat! Drums! canonical	3

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5539098 — 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: Beat! Beat! Drums!
Context triple: [Drum-Taps, hasPart, Beat! Beat! Drums!]

A. The Sound of Drums
"The Sound of Drums" is a 2007 Doctor Who television episode that reintroduces the Master as a central villain and sets up the series three finale.
B. She Bangs the Drums
"She Bangs the Drums" is a seminal indie rock song by The Stone Roses, celebrated as one of the defining tracks of the late-1980s Madchester scene.
C. Eat to the Beat
Eat to the Beat is Blondie’s 1979 new wave album that blends punk, pop, and disco influences and includes tracks like “Dreaming” and “Atomic.”
D. Rockin to the Beat
"Rockin to the Beat" is a track by the Black Eyed Peas featured on their 2009 electro-pop and dance-oriented album *The E.N.D.*
E. Nothing but the Beat
Nothing but the Beat is a 2011 electronic dance music album by French DJ and producer David Guetta that features numerous collaborations with prominent pop and hip-hop artists.
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: Beat! Beat! Drums!
Target entity description: "Beat! Beat! Drums!" is a Civil War–era poem by Walt Whitman that vividly portrays the disruptive, all-consuming impact of war on everyday life.

A. The Sound of Drums
"The Sound of Drums" is a 2007 Doctor Who television episode that reintroduces the Master as a central villain and sets up the series three finale.
B. She Bangs the Drums
"She Bangs the Drums" is a seminal indie rock song by The Stone Roses, celebrated as one of the defining tracks of the late-1980s Madchester scene.
C. Eat to the Beat
Eat to the Beat is Blondie’s 1979 new wave album that blends punk, pop, and disco influences and includes tracks like “Dreaming” and “Atomic.”
D. Rockin to the Beat
"Rockin to the Beat" is a track by the Black Eyed Peas featured on their 2009 electro-pop and dance-oriented album *The E.N.D.*
E. Nothing but the Beat
Nothing but the Beat is a 2011 electronic dance music album by French DJ and producer David Guetta that features numerous collaborations with prominent pop and hip-hop artists.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (33)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	poem ⓘ
author	Walt Whitman ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
depicts	indifference of war to individual concerns ⓘ war overwhelming all aspects of life ⓘ
form	three-stanza poem ⓘ
genre	lyric poetry ⓘ war poetry ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	interpretations of the psychological impact of war in American poetry ⓘ
imagery	interruption of work, worship, and study ⓘ invasion of public and private spaces ⓘ martial music ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryDevice	alliteration ⓘ anaphora ⓘ imperative mood ⓘ onomatopoeia ⓘ
literaryMovement	American Romanticism ⓘ Transcendentalism-adjacent ⓘ
literaryPeriod	American Civil War era ⓘ
meter	free verse ⓘ
narrativePerspective	impersonal speaker addressing drums and bugles ⓘ
partOf	Walt Whitman’s Civil War writings ⓘ
refrain	Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow! ⓘ
subjectOf	literary criticism on Whitman’s war poetry ⓘ
theme	all-consuming nature of war ⓘ disruption of everyday life ⓘ impact of war on civilian life ⓘ loss of peace ⓘ militarism ⓘ
tone	disruptive ⓘ insistent ⓘ urgent ⓘ