Leaves of Grass

E11806

book poetry collection

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s groundbreaking poetry collection that celebrates the individual, democracy, and the American experience in a free-verse style.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Leaves of Grass canonical	25
Song of Myself	2
1881–1882 edition of Leaves of Grass	1
Leaves of Grass (1855 edition)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110796 — 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: Leaves of Grass
Context triple: [American literature, hasNotableWork, Leaves of Grass]

A. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Walden; or, Life in the Woods is Henry David Thoreau’s seminal 1854 work of philosophical memoir and nature writing, reflecting on simple living, self-reliance, and spiritual contemplation during his experiment in solitude at Walden Pond.
B. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is Henry David Thoreau’s reflective travel narrative that blends natural observation, philosophy, and personal memoir based on a boating trip he took with his brother.
C. Hymn to Liberty
"Hymn to Liberty" is a 19th-century Greek patriotic poem by Dionysios Solomos, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, that celebrates the Greek War of Independence and serves as Greece’s national anthem.
D. To Anacreon in Heaven
"To Anacreon in Heaven" is an 18th-century English drinking song that later provided the melody for the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
E. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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: Leaves of Grass
Target entity description: Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s groundbreaking poetry collection that celebrates the individual, democracy, and the American experience in a free-verse style.

A. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Walden; or, Life in the Woods is Henry David Thoreau’s seminal 1854 work of philosophical memoir and nature writing, reflecting on simple living, self-reliance, and spiritual contemplation during his experiment in solitude at Walden Pond.
B. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is Henry David Thoreau’s reflective travel narrative that blends natural observation, philosophy, and personal memoir based on a boating trip he took with his brother.
C. Hymn to Liberty
"Hymn to Liberty" is a 19th-century Greek patriotic poem by Dionysios Solomos, set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, that celebrates the Greek War of Independence and serves as Greece’s national anthem.
D. To Anacreon in Heaven
"To Anacreon in Heaven" is an 18th-century English drinking song that later provided the melody for the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
E. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (69)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ poetry collection ⓘ
author	Walt Whitman ⓘ
controversialFor	departure from traditional poetic forms ⓘ frank treatment of sexuality ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dedicatedTo	Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ surface form: Ralph Waldo Emerson (implicitly honored)
describedAs	groundbreaking American poetry collection ⓘ
firstPublicationDate	1855 ⓘ
focusesOn	celebration of democracy ⓘ celebration of the American people ⓘ celebration of the self ⓘ
form	free verse ⓘ
genre	poetry ⓘ
hasEdition	1855 edition of Leaves of Grass ⓘ 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass ⓘ 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass ⓘ 1871–1872 edition of Leaves of Grass ⓘ Leaves of Grass self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 1881–1882 edition of Leaves of Grass 1891–1892 "deathbed" edition of Leaves of Grass ⓘ
hasIllustration	engraved portrait of Walt Whitman in first edition ⓘ
hasSubject	Abraham Lincoln (in elegiac poems) ⓘ United States politics ⓘ surface form: American democracy American Civil War ⓘ surface form: Civil War (in later poems)
influenced	Allen Ginsberg ⓘ American literature ⓘ Beat Generation ⓘ free verse tradition ⓘ modernist poetry ⓘ
influencedBy	American democracy ⓘ Biblical poetry ⓘ Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryMovement	Realism ⓘ Transcendentalism ⓘ
narrativeVoice	first-person lyrical speaker ⓘ
notablePoem	Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ⓘ I Sing the Body Electric ⓘ O Captain! My Captain! ⓘ Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ⓘ Leaves of Grass self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Song of Myself The Sleepers ⓘ There Was a Child Went Forth ⓘ When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ⓘ
numberOfMajorRevisions	multiple over Whitman’s lifetime ⓘ
numberOfPoemsInFirstEdition	12 ⓘ
originalFormat	self-published volume ⓘ
placeOfPublication	Brooklyn ⓘ New York City ⓘ
printedBy	Brooklyn printer ⓘ
publisher	Walt Whitman ⓘ
recognizedAs	foundational work of American poetry ⓘ masterpiece of American literature ⓘ
revisedBy	Walt Whitman ⓘ
styleCharacteristic	catalogues and lists ⓘ colloquial diction ⓘ long lines ⓘ repetition and parallelism ⓘ
subjectOf	literary criticism ⓘ
theme	American experience ⓘ body and soul unity ⓘ democracy ⓘ equality ⓘ individualism ⓘ labor and the working class ⓘ nature ⓘ sexuality ⓘ spirituality ⓘ urban life ⓘ

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Referenced by (29)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

American literature → hasNotableWork → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

American Renaissance → associatedWork → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

this entity surface form: Song of Myself

Leaves of Grass → notablePoem → Leaves of Grass self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Song of Myself

Leaves of Grass → hasEdition → Leaves of Grass self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: 1881–1882 edition of Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman → notableWork → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Walt Whitman → wrote → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Walt Whitman → subjectOf → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking → collection → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

O Captain! My Captain! → collection → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

There Was a Child Went Forth → relatedWorkOfAuthor → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry → collection → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry → firstPublishedIn → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d → partOf → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

I Sing the Body Electric → firstPublication → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

I Sing the Body Electric → partOf → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

The Sleepers → laterIncludedIn → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

The Sleepers → relatedWork → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Democratic Vistas → relatedWork → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Song of Myself → partOf → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Song of Myself → firstPublishedIn → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

this entity surface form: Leaves of Grass (1855 edition)

Song of Myself → centralWorkOf → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Specimen Days → influencedBy → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony → basedOn → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

subject surface form: A Sea Symphony

Tim Blake Nelson → notableWork → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Margo Roth Spiegelman → associatedWork → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Studies in Classic American Literature → notableWorkDiscussed → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

A Child’s Reminiscence → partOf → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

Whitman’s sea-drift poems → partOf → Leaves of Grass ⓘ

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Referenced by (29)

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