When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
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"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" is Walt Whitman’s elegiac poem mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, renowned for its lyrical meditation on grief, nature, and national loss.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d canonical | 3 |
| Sequel to Drum-Taps | 1 |
| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549511 — 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: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d Context triple: [Leaves of Grass, notablePoem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d]
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The Rains Came
The Rains Came is a 1939 American drama film set in India that is renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
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B.
Green Grow the Lilacs
Green Grow the Lilacs is a 1931 stage play by Lynn Riggs, a folk drama set in Indian Territory that later served as the basis for the musical Oklahoma!.
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C.
After the Dance
"After the Dance" is a 1939 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan that explores the disillusionment and emotional fallout among the hedonistic "bright young things" of interwar London.
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D.
Strange Interlude
Strange Interlude is a landmark experimental play by Eugene O’Neill, renowned for its use of interior monologues to explore the psychological lives and moral conflicts of its characters.
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E.
The Bells
"The Bells" is a lyrical poem by Edgar Allan Poe that uses musical repetition and onomatopoeia to evoke the changing moods and stages of life through the sounds of different bells.
- 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: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d Target entity description: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" is Walt Whitman’s elegiac poem mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, renowned for its lyrical meditation on grief, nature, and national loss.
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A.
The Rains Came
The Rains Came is a 1939 American drama film set in India that is renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
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B.
Green Grow the Lilacs
Green Grow the Lilacs is a 1931 stage play by Lynn Riggs, a folk drama set in Indian Territory that later served as the basis for the musical Oklahoma!.
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C.
After the Dance
"After the Dance" is a 1939 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan that explores the disillusionment and emotional fallout among the hedonistic "bright young things" of interwar London.
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D.
Strange Interlude
Strange Interlude is a landmark experimental play by Eugene O’Neill, renowned for its use of interior monologues to explore the psychological lives and moral conflicts of its characters.
-
E.
The Bells
"The Bells" is a lyrical poem by Edgar Allan Poe that uses musical repetition and onomatopoeia to evoke the changing moods and stages of life through the sounds of different bells.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
elegy
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poem ⓘ |
| addressee | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| author | Walt Whitman ⓘ |
| collection |
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
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surface form:
Sequel to Drum-Taps
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPublicationYear |
1865
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1866 ⓘ |
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre |
elegy
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lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasTone |
contemplative
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mournful ⓘ |
| historicalContext | end of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| influenced | American elegiac tradition ⓘ |
| influencedBy | American Civil War ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th century American literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
American Civil War
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assassination of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ death ⓘ grief ⓘ mourning ⓘ national loss ⓘ nature ⓘ |
| meter | free verse ⓘ |
| movement |
American Romanticism
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Transcendentalism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative free verse form
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lyrical meditation on grief ⓘ public elegy for a national leader ⓘ use of nature imagery ⓘ |
| partOf | Leaves of Grass ⓘ |
| setting |
American landscape
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rural dooryard ⓘ |
| symbol |
coffin
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lilac ⓘ spring ⓘ thrush ⓘ western star ⓘ |
| theme |
memory
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national trauma ⓘ public and private mourning ⓘ reconciliation with death ⓘ relationship between nature and death ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Walt Whitman ⓘ |
| writtenInResponseTo | assassination of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d Description of subject: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" is Walt Whitman’s elegiac poem mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, renowned for its lyrical meditation on grief, nature, and national loss.
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this entity surface form:
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
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this entity surface form:
Sequel to Drum-Taps