Record #1016 is a superseded duplicate mint for the Walt Whitman canon provenance node.
Unlike the contaminated Ginsberg records, the current body is a Whitman node and matches the named figure. It records Whitman’s internal New Human canon status, textual ground, Archive relations, Wikidata identifier, and relation to the Good Gray Poet mantle.
The duplicate was superseded because it was minted before the registry-of-record workflow was completed. The authoritative surviving record is #806, corresponding to the DOI named in this record’s title.
The current registry’s supersession explanation incorrectly repeats a Sappho wrong-object caveat. That caveat does not match the bytes at the frozen commit and should be corrected. The record remains superseded for version and authority reasons, not because its present body depicts the wrong poet.
Whitman’s canon and mantle relations are internal Archive structures. They do not establish external literary succession or ownership of Whitman’s historical legacy.