The Old Ways
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The Old Ways is an essay by Gary Snyder that explores traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous lifeways, and humanity’s deep relationship with the natural world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Old Ways canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13035474 — 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: The Old Ways Context triple: [The Practice of the Wild, hasPart, The Old Ways]
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A.
Woven Stone
Woven Stone is a poetry and prose collection by Acoma Pueblo writer Simon J. Ortiz that explores Native American identity, history, and resistance.
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B.
The Old Ceremony
The Old Ceremony is an American indie rock band known for its literate songwriting, lush arrangements, and genre-blending chamber-pop sound.
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C.
Shepherds of the Trees
Shepherds of the Trees is another name for the Ents, the ancient, tree-like guardians of the forests in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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D.
Third Stone from the Sun
"Third Stone from the Sun" is an experimental, psychedelic instrumental track by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, noted for its spacey guitar work and innovative studio effects.
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E.
The Old New Land
The Old New Land is a 1902 utopian novel by Theodor Herzl that envisions a future Jewish state in Palestine built on ideals of social justice, technological progress, and peaceful coexistence.
- 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: The Old Ways Target entity description: The Old Ways is an essay by Gary Snyder that explores traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous lifeways, and humanity’s deep relationship with the natural world.
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A.
Woven Stone
Woven Stone is a poetry and prose collection by Acoma Pueblo writer Simon J. Ortiz that explores Native American identity, history, and resistance.
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B.
The Old Ceremony
The Old Ceremony is an American indie rock band known for its literate songwriting, lush arrangements, and genre-blending chamber-pop sound.
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C.
Shepherds of the Trees
Shepherds of the Trees is another name for the Ents, the ancient, tree-like guardians of the forests in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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D.
Third Stone from the Sun
"Third Stone from the Sun" is an experimental, psychedelic instrumental track by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, noted for its spacey guitar work and innovative studio effects.
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E.
The Old New Land
The Old New Land is a 1902 utopian novel by Theodor Herzl that envisions a future Jewish state in Palestine built on ideals of social justice, technological progress, and peaceful coexistence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | essay ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
connect culture and nature
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encourage ecological awareness ⓘ revalue indigenous ecological knowledge ⓘ |
| author | Gary Snyder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discusses |
human embeddedness in ecosystems
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indigenous knowledge systems ⓘ land-based cultures ⓘ place-based identity ⓘ spiritual dimensions of ecology ⓘ sustainable lifeways ⓘ |
| genre |
environmental writing
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nature writing ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
bioregionalism
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critique of industrial civilization ⓘ deep ecology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
cultural continuity
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ecological consciousness ⓘ human relationship with the natural world ⓘ indigenous lifeways ⓘ respect for nonhuman life ⓘ traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Old Ways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workOf | Gary Snyder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Old Ways Description of subject: The Old Ways is an essay by Gary Snyder that explores traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous lifeways, and humanity’s deep relationship with the natural world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.