Foreign Lands
E1040398
"Foreign Lands" is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that captures a child's imaginative longing to explore distant, unseen places beyond their immediate world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Foreign Lands canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13437517 — 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: Foreign Lands Context triple: [A Child’s Garden of Verses, hasPoem, Foreign Lands]
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A.
Foreign Land
Foreign Land is a 1995 Brazilian-Portuguese drama film directed by Walter Salles that explores themes of exile, identity, and displacement against the backdrop of political and economic turmoil.
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B.
Foreign Land
Foreign Land is a novel by British travel writer and novelist Jonathan Raban that explores themes of displacement, identity, and belonging through the story of a middle-aged man returning to his homeland.
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C.
In Another Land
"In Another Land" is a psychedelic rock song by the Rolling Stones, written and sung by bassist Bill Wyman and featured on their 1967 album *Their Satanic Majesties Request*.
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D.
Unassigned Lands
Unassigned Lands were a central region in present-day Oklahoma that, unlike surrounding areas reserved for specific tribes, was opened to non-Native settlement in the late 19th century, notably through the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889.
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E.
Skyland
Skyland is a mountain resort area in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, known for its scenic vistas along Skyline Drive.
- 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: Foreign Lands Target entity description: "Foreign Lands" is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that captures a child's imaginative longing to explore distant, unseen places beyond their immediate world.
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A.
Foreign Land
Foreign Land is a 1995 Brazilian-Portuguese drama film directed by Walter Salles that explores themes of exile, identity, and displacement against the backdrop of political and economic turmoil.
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B.
Foreign Land
Foreign Land is a novel by British travel writer and novelist Jonathan Raban that explores themes of displacement, identity, and belonging through the story of a middle-aged man returning to his homeland.
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C.
In Another Land
"In Another Land" is a psychedelic rock song by the Rolling Stones, written and sung by bassist Bill Wyman and featured on their 1967 album *Their Satanic Majesties Request*.
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D.
Unassigned Lands
Unassigned Lands were a central region in present-day Oklahoma that, unlike surrounding areas reserved for specific tribes, was opened to non-Native settlement in the late 19th century, notably through the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889.
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E.
Skyland
Skyland is a mountain resort area in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, known for its scenic vistas along Skyline Drive.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Robert Louis Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
distant hills
ⓘ
imagined countries ⓘ looking into the distance ⓘ rivers ⓘ roads ⓘ tree-climbing ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
desire for travel
ⓘ
limits of perception ⓘ |
| genre | children's poetry ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
frequently memorized in schools
ⓘ
often quoted in discussions of childhood imagination ⓘ |
| hasForm | lyric poem ⓘ |
| includedIn | children's literature anthologies ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | children ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
imagery
ⓘ
metaphor ⓘ personification ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Victorian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | regular accentual-syllabic meter ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | child ⓘ |
| originallyPublishedIn | A Child's Garden of Verses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Robert Louis Stevenson's poetic works ⓘ |
| publicationType | poetry collection contribution ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | regular rhyme scheme ⓘ |
| setting |
countryside
ⓘ
garden ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
a child's view from a tree
ⓘ
vision of lands beyond home ⓘ |
| theme |
childhood
ⓘ
curiosity ⓘ distance and the unknown ⓘ imagination ⓘ longing for exploration ⓘ |
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: Foreign Lands Description of subject: "Foreign Lands" is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that captures a child's imaginative longing to explore distant, unseen places beyond their immediate world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.