The Soldier’s Art
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The Soldier’s Art is a novel in Anthony Powell’s multi-volume sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time," exploring postwar British society through his characteristic wit and social observation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Soldier’s Art canonical | 3 |
| The Soldier's Art | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5711531 — 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: The Soldier’s Art Context triple: [Anthony Powell, notableWork, The Soldier’s Art]
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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 Artilleryman’s Vision
"The Artilleryman’s Vision" is a Civil War–themed poem by Walt Whitman that vividly portrays a veteran’s haunting nighttime recollections of battle.
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C.
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.
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D.
The Arts of War
The Arts of War is a pair of monumental equestrian bronze sculptures by Leo Friedlander that symbolize martial valor and sacrifice, installed at the Washington, D.C. entrance to Arlington Memorial Bridge.
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E.
A Soldier’s Declaration
A Soldier’s Declaration is a famous 1917 statement by British war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon condemning the continuation of World War I as unjust and needlessly destructive.
- 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: The Soldier’s Art Target entity description: The Soldier’s Art is a novel in Anthony Powell’s multi-volume sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time," exploring postwar British society through his characteristic wit and social observation.
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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 Artilleryman’s Vision
"The Artilleryman’s Vision" is a Civil War–themed poem by Walt Whitman that vividly portrays a veteran’s haunting nighttime recollections of battle.
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C.
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.
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D.
The Arts of War
The Arts of War is a pair of monumental equestrian bronze sculptures by Leo Friedlander that symbolize martial valor and sacrifice, installed at the Washington, D.C. entrance to Arlington Memorial Bridge.
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E.
A Soldier’s Declaration
A Soldier’s Declaration is a famous 1917 statement by British war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon condemning the continuation of World War I as unjust and needlessly destructive.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Anthony Powell ⓘ |
| character |
Charles Stringham
ⓘ
Hugh Moreland ⓘ Kenneth Widmerpool ⓘ Odo Stevens ⓘ
linked to:
Edmund Breon
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Military Philosophers ⓘ |
| follows | Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
novel of manners ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
military hierarchy
ⓘ
personal relationships in wartime ⓘ postwar British society ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postwar British literature ⓘ |
| literarySeriesNumber | eighth volume of A Dance to the Music of Time ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nicholas Jenkins ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrator | Nicholas Jenkins ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | A Dance to the Music of Time ⓘ |
| publisher |
Heinemann
ⓘ
linked to:
Heinemann publishing group
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| settingCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Second World War
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linked to:
World War II
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| theme |
British army life during World War II
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friendship and memory ⓘ social class in Britain ⓘ war and bureaucracy ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: The Soldier’s Art Description of subject: The Soldier’s Art is a novel in Anthony Powell’s multi-volume sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time," exploring postwar British society through his characteristic wit and social observation.
Referenced by (4)
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linked to: The Soldier’s Art