The Folk of the Faraway Tree
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The Folk of the Faraway Tree is a classic children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton that continues the adventures of children exploring a magical tree whose top leads to ever-changing enchanted lands.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Folk of the Faraway Tree canonical | 10 |
| The Faraway Tree series | 3 |
| The Faraway Tree books | 1 |
| The Folk of the Far-Away Tree | 1 |
| Up the Faraway Tree | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1438729 — 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 Folk of the Faraway Tree Context triple: [The Magic Faraway Tree, sequel, The Folk of the Faraway Tree]
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A.
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Magic Faraway Tree is a classic children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton about a group of children who discover an enchanted tree whose top leads to a series of magical, ever-changing lands.
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B.
The Enchanted Forest
The Enchanted Forest is a fairy tale–themed amusement park in New York that later expanded into the Enchanted Forest Water Safari.
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C.
The Enchanted Wood
The Enchanted Wood is a children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton that introduces a magical forest filled with talking trees, strange folk, and a towering tree leading to ever-changing magical lands.
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D.
The Land
The Land is an EPCOT pavilion focused on agriculture and the natural environment, featuring attractions and exhibits about sustainable farming, ecosystems, and human interaction with the Earth.
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E.
Life in the Undergrowth
Life in the Undergrowth is a BBC nature documentary series exploring the hidden world and remarkable behaviors of invertebrates, presented and narrated by David Attenborough.
- 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 Folk of the Faraway Tree Target entity description: The Folk of the Faraway Tree is a classic children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton that continues the adventures of children exploring a magical tree whose top leads to ever-changing enchanted lands.
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A.
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Magic Faraway Tree is a classic children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton about a group of children who discover an enchanted tree whose top leads to a series of magical, ever-changing lands.
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B.
The Enchanted Forest
The Enchanted Forest is a fairy tale–themed amusement park in New York that later expanded into the Enchanted Forest Water Safari.
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C.
The Enchanted Wood
The Enchanted Wood is a children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton that introduces a magical forest filled with talking trees, strange folk, and a towering tree leading to ever-changing magical lands.
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D.
The Land
The Land is an EPCOT pavilion focused on agriculture and the natural environment, featuring attractions and exhibits about sustainable farming, ecosystems, and human interaction with the Earth.
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E.
Life in the Undergrowth
Life in the Undergrowth is a BBC nature documentary series exploring the hidden world and remarkable behaviors of invertebrates, presented and narrated by David Attenborough.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British children's literature work
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children's novel ⓘ fantasy novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author |
Blyton
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surface form:
Enid Blyton
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| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| feature |
ever-changing magical lands
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portal-like tree top leading to other lands ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dame Washalot
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Moon-Face ⓘ Mr. Watzisname ⓘ Silky the Fairy ⓘ The Saucepan Man ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterArc | Connie learns to be less selfish and more considerate ⓘ |
| featuresLocation | Lands at the top of the Faraway Tree ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverseElement | magical tree connecting to multiple lands ⓘ |
| follows | The Magic Faraway Tree ⓘ |
| genre |
children's fantasy
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fantasy ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling |
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Folk of the Far-Away Tree
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| hasFormat |
audiobook
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hardcover ⓘ paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations | yes ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adventure
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consequences of selfishness ⓘ family relationships ⓘ friendship ⓘ imagination ⓘ moral lessons ⓘ |
| intendedUse | leisure reading for children ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century children's literature ⓘ |
| mainSetting |
The Enchanted Wood
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The Magic Faraway Tree ⓘ
surface form:
The Faraway Tree
|
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf |
Faraway Tree universe
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surface form:
The Enchanted Wood universe
|
| precedes |
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Up the Faraway Tree
|
| protagonist |
Bessie
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Connie ⓘ Fanny ⓘ Jo ⓘ |
| series |
The Magic Faraway Tree
ⓘ
surface form:
The Faraway Tree series
|
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPublication | mid-20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Folk of the Faraway Tree Description of subject: The Folk of the Faraway Tree is a classic children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton that continues the adventures of children exploring a magical tree whose top leads to ever-changing enchanted lands.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Faraway Tree series
this entity surface form:
The Faraway Tree series
this entity surface form:
The Faraway Tree books
this entity surface form:
Up the Faraway Tree
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
→
hasAlternativeSpelling
→
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
The Folk of the Far-Away Tree
this entity surface form:
The Faraway Tree series