Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
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"Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me" is a Civil War–themed poem by Walt Whitman that reflects on the turmoil and emotional upheaval of wartime America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5539106 — 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: Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me Context triple: [Drum-Taps, hasPart, Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me]
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A.
It Could Happen to You
It Could Happen to You is a 1994 romantic comedy-drama film best known for its story about a New York cop who shares his lottery winnings with a waitress instead of leaving her a tip.
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B.
It Could Happen to You
"It Could Happen to You" is a popular jazz and pop standard from the Great American Songbook, composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke and widely recorded by numerous artists.
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C.
I Was There
"I Was There" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
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D.
I Was There
"I Was There" is the memoir of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, offering an insider’s account of high-level Allied strategy and decision-making during World War II.
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E.
The Earthquake
The Earthquake is the English title of Surah Az-Zalzalah, a short Quranic chapter describing the cataclysmic shaking of the earth and the final judgment of human deeds.
- 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: Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me Target entity description: "Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me" is a Civil War–themed poem by Walt Whitman that reflects on the turmoil and emotional upheaval of wartime America.
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A.
It Could Happen to You
It Could Happen to You is a 1994 romantic comedy-drama film best known for its story about a New York cop who shares his lottery winnings with a waitress instead of leaving her a tip.
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B.
It Could Happen to You
"It Could Happen to You" is a popular jazz and pop standard from the Great American Songbook, composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke and widely recorded by numerous artists.
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C.
I Was There
"I Was There" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
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D.
I Was There
"I Was There" is the memoir of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, offering an insider’s account of high-level Allied strategy and decision-making during World War II.
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E.
The Earthquake
The Earthquake is the English title of Surah Az-Zalzalah, a short Quranic chapter describing the cataclysmic shaking of the earth and the final judgment of human deeds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lyric poem
ⓘ
poem ⓘ |
| author | Walt Whitman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Walt Whitman ⓘ |
| genre | war poetry ⓘ |
| influencedBy | events of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American Romanticism
ⓘ
Transcendentalism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
free verse
ⓘ
imagery ⓘ repetition ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| partOf |
Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry
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linked to:
Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry corpus
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| periodDepicted | American Civil War ⓘ |
| setting | United States during the Civil War ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
collective trauma of wartime America
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impact of war on individual consciousness ⓘ recollection of a pivotal year of war ⓘ |
| theme |
American Civil War
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emotional upheaval ⓘ historical reflection ⓘ loss ⓘ memory ⓘ national turmoil ⓘ suffering ⓘ war ⓘ |
| tone |
mournful
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reflective ⓘ somber ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me Description of subject: "Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me" is a Civil War–themed poem by Walt Whitman that reflects on the turmoil and emotional upheaval of wartime America.
Referenced by (1)
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