Adieu to a Soldier
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"Adieu to a Soldier" is a poem by Walt Whitman, included in his Civil War-themed collection Drum-Taps, reflecting on the experiences and farewell of a departing soldier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Adieu to a Soldier canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5539116 — 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: Adieu to a Soldier Context triple: [Drum-Taps, hasPart, Adieu to a Soldier]
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A.
The Soldier
The Soldier is a famous World War I sonnet by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealistically reflects on patriotism, sacrifice, and the notion of an English soldier’s death abroad.
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B.
The American Soldier
The American Soldier is a symbolic collective representing U.S. military personnel, recognized for their service and impact, including being honored as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
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C.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is a classic war-time romance novel by Ernest Hemingway that follows an American ambulance driver in World War I and explores themes of love, loss, and the brutality of conflict.
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D.
After the War
After the War is a 1989 Australian drama film set in post–World War II Melbourne, exploring the lives of European immigrants and their families as they adjust to a new country and lingering wartime trauma.
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E.
The Face of War
The Face of War is a collection of Martha Gellhorn’s vivid, first-hand war reportage spanning multiple conflicts in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Adieu to a Soldier Target entity description: "Adieu to a Soldier" is a poem by Walt Whitman, included in his Civil War-themed collection Drum-Taps, reflecting on the experiences and farewell of a departing soldier.
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A.
The Soldier
The Soldier is a famous World War I sonnet by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealistically reflects on patriotism, sacrifice, and the notion of an English soldier’s death abroad.
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B.
The American Soldier
The American Soldier is a symbolic collective representing U.S. military personnel, recognized for their service and impact, including being honored as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
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C.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is a classic war-time romance novel by Ernest Hemingway that follows an American ambulance driver in World War I and explores themes of love, loss, and the brutality of conflict.
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D.
After the War
After the War is a 1989 Australian drama film set in post–World War II Melbourne, exploring the lives of European immigrants and their families as they adjust to a new country and lingering wartime trauma.
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E.
The Face of War
The Face of War is a collection of Martha Gellhorn’s vivid, first-hand war reportage spanning multiple conflicts in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Adieu to a Soldier Description of subject: "Adieu to a Soldier" is a poem by Walt Whitman, included in his Civil War-themed collection Drum-Taps, reflecting on the experiences and farewell of a departing soldier.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.