By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
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"By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame" is a lyric poem by Walt Whitman that evokes the reflective, somber mood of soldiers encamped during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5539102 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame Context triple: [Drum-Taps, hasPart, By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame]
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A.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
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B.
The Fire Raisers
The Fire Raisers is an English title for Max Frisch’s darkly comic play about complacency and the rise of fascism, in which a seemingly respectable citizen naively harbors arsonists in his home.
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C.
The Night Fire
The Night Fire is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detectives Harry Bosch and Renée Ballard as they investigate a long-unsolved murder linked to Bosch’s late mentor.
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D.
The Silken Tent
"The Silken Tent" is a contemplative lyric poem by Robert Frost that uses the image of a tent in a summer breeze to explore themes of freedom, restraint, and the complexities of human relationships.
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E.
On a Darkling Plain
"On a Darkling Plain" is a novel by American author Clifford Irving, best known for its dark, psychologically driven storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame Target entity description: "By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame" is a lyric poem by Walt Whitman that evokes the reflective, somber mood of soldiers encamped during the American Civil War.
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A.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
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B.
The Fire Raisers
The Fire Raisers is an English title for Max Frisch’s darkly comic play about complacency and the rise of fascism, in which a seemingly respectable citizen naively harbors arsonists in his home.
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C.
The Night Fire
The Night Fire is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detectives Harry Bosch and Renée Ballard as they investigate a long-unsolved murder linked to Bosch’s late mentor.
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D.
The Silken Tent
"The Silken Tent" is a contemplative lyric poem by Robert Frost that uses the image of a tent in a summer breeze to explore themes of freedom, restraint, and the complexities of human relationships.
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E.
On a Darkling Plain
"On a Darkling Plain" is a novel by American author Clifford Irving, best known for its dark, psychologically driven storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lyric poem
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poem ⓘ |
| author | Walt Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
catalog-like listing of images
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long, flowing lines ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
inner visions of war and home
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interplay of light and shadow ⓘ night encampment of soldiers ⓘ |
| focusesOn | psychological impact of war on the individual soldier ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
ⓘ
war poetry ⓘ |
| imagerySource |
campfire light
ⓘ
marching columns ⓘ shifting shadows ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
alliteration
ⓘ
imagery ⓘ repetition ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American Romanticism
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Transcendentalism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | free verse ⓘ |
| mood |
reflective
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somber ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| partOf | Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Come Up from the Fields Father
NERFINISHED
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Drum-Taps NERFINISHED ⓘ When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | Whitmanesque free verse ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
soldiers encamped at night
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visions and thoughts of a soldier by a campfire ⓘ |
| symbol |
bivouac’s flame
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marching army ⓘ shadows ⓘ |
| theme |
death
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memory ⓘ nature and the battlefield ⓘ reflection ⓘ soldier’s experience ⓘ war ⓘ |
| tone |
haunting
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meditative ⓘ |
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Subject: By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame Description of subject: "By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame" is a lyric poem by Walt Whitman that evokes the reflective, somber mood of soldiers encamped during the American Civil War.
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