The Dumb Soldier
E1040403
"The Dumb Soldier" is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that appears in his classic children's poetry collection *A Child’s Garden of Verses*, depicting a child's imaginative play with a toy soldier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Dumb Soldier canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13437523 — 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 Dumb Soldier Context triple: [A Child’s Garden of Verses, hasPoem, The Dumb Soldier]
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A.
Soldier Boy
Soldier Boy is a superpowered, morally ambiguous parody of patriotic comic-book heroes in the television series "The Boys."
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B.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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C.
The Smiling Lieutenant
The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its sophisticated humor, romantic entanglements, and early use of the “Lubitsch Touch.”
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D.
An Accidental Soldier
An Accidental Soldier is a war drama novel by Sue Smith that follows an unlikely recruit whose life is transformed by the brutal realities of conflict.
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E.
El Sargento
El Sargento is a small coastal village in Baja California Sur, Mexico, known for its beaches, kiteboarding, and proximity to La Ventana on the Sea of Cortez.
- 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 Dumb Soldier Target entity description: "The Dumb Soldier" is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that appears in his classic children's poetry collection *A Child’s Garden of Verses*, depicting a child's imaginative play with a toy soldier.
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A.
Soldier Boy
Soldier Boy is a superpowered, morally ambiguous parody of patriotic comic-book heroes in the television series "The Boys."
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B.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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C.
The Smiling Lieutenant
The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its sophisticated humor, romantic entanglements, and early use of the “Lubitsch Touch.”
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D.
An Accidental Soldier
An Accidental Soldier is a war drama novel by Sue Smith that follows an unlikely recruit whose life is transformed by the brutal realities of conflict.
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E.
El Sargento
El Sargento is a small coastal village in Baja California Sur, Mexico, known for its beaches, kiteboarding, and proximity to La Ventana on the Sea of Cortez.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
poem ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Child's Garden of Verses
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linked to:
A Child’s Garden of Verses
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| author | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| collection |
A Child's Garden of Verses
ⓘ
linked to:
A Child’s Garden of Verses
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| collectionPublicationYear | 1885 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| depicts | child's imaginative play ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | toy soldier ⓘ |
| form | rhymed verse ⓘ |
| genre |
children's poetry
ⓘ
lyric poem ⓘ |
| hasFictionalElement | animated toy soldier in child's mind ⓘ |
| hasImagery |
battlefield play with toy soldier
ⓘ
domestic childhood setting ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Dumb Soldier ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | children ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Victorian children's literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| meter | regular meter ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| partOf | English children's literature canon ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection |
Longmans, Green & Co.
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linked to:
Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
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| subject | relationship between child and toy ⓘ |
| theme |
childhood
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companionship ⓘ imagination ⓘ personification of toys ⓘ play ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Dumb Soldier Description of subject: "The Dumb Soldier" is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that appears in his classic children's poetry collection *A Child’s Garden of Verses*, depicting a child's imaginative play with a toy soldier.
Referenced by (3)
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