The Magic Faraway Tree
E31018
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.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Magic Faraway Tree canonical | 18 |
| The Faraway Tree series | 7 |
| The Faraway Tree | 4 |
| Up the Faraway Tree | 2 |
| the Faraway Tree | 2 |
| The Magic Faraway Tree series | 1 |
| The lands at the top of the Faraway Tree | 1 |
| the Magic Faraway Tree | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T242265 — 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 Magic Faraway Tree Context triple: [Enid Mary Blyton, notableWork, The Magic Faraway Tree]
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A.
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.
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B.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a classic 1908 children’s novel by Kenneth Grahame that follows the adventures and friendships of anthropomorphic animals along an English riverbank.
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C.
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Tales of a Wayside Inn is a narrative poetry collection structured as a series of stories told by different characters gathered at a New England inn.
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D.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a fantasy novel by Salman Rushdie that follows a boy’s quest to restore his storyteller father’s lost gift of storytelling in a richly allegorical, imaginative world.
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E.
Buckthorne and His Friends
Buckthorne and His Friends is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection Tales of a Traveller, featuring interconnected tales centered on the character Buckthorne and his social circle.
- 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 Magic Faraway Tree Target entity description: 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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A.
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.
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B.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a classic 1908 children’s novel by Kenneth Grahame that follows the adventures and friendships of anthropomorphic animals along an English riverbank.
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C.
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Tales of a Wayside Inn is a narrative poetry collection structured as a series of stories told by different characters gathered at a New England inn.
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D.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a fantasy novel by Salman Rushdie that follows a boy’s quest to restore his storyteller father’s lost gift of storytelling in a richly allegorical, imaginative world.
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E.
Buckthorne and His Friends
Buckthorne and His Friends is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection Tales of a Traveller, featuring interconnected tales centered on the character Buckthorne and his social circle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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children's fantasy novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author |
Blyton
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surface form:
Enid Blyton
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| containsCharacterType |
fairies
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magical beings ⓘ talking animals ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| feature | ever-changing lands at the top of the tree ⓘ |
| fictionalLocation |
The Land of Birthdays
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The Land of Take-What-You-Want ⓘ
surface form:
The Land of Do-As-You-Please
The Land of Dreams ⓘ The Land of Take-What-You-Want ⓘ The Land of Topsy-Turvy ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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fantasy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
radio adaptations
ⓘ
stage adaptations ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
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print ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations | yes ⓘ |
| hasMotiveForCharacters | exploration of magical lands ⓘ |
| hasObjectInPlot | enchanted tree leading to other lands ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adventure
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friendship ⓘ imagination ⓘ magic ⓘ |
| intendedUse | children's reading for pleasure ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | simple prose ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Bessie
ⓘ
Fanny ⓘ Jo ⓘ Moon-Face ⓘ Silky the Fairy ⓘ The Saucepan Man ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOf | British children's classics ⓘ |
| prequel | The Enchanted Wood ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| sequel | The Folk of the Faraway Tree ⓘ |
| series |
The Magic Faraway Tree
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Faraway Tree series
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| setting |
The Magic Faraway Tree
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Faraway Tree
|
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | contemporary to time of writing ⓘ |
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 Magic Faraway Tree Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Enid Mary Blyton (née Enid Mary Pollock, pen name Mary Pollock, sometimes used surname Gay in early life)
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notableWork
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The Magic Faraway Tree
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Enid Mary Blyton
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Enid Blyton
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The Faraway Tree series
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The Faraway Tree
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the Faraway Tree
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The Magic Faraway Tree series
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the Faraway Tree
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The Faraway Tree series
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Up the Faraway Tree
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the Magic Faraway Tree
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The Faraway Tree series
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The Faraway Tree series
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The Faraway Tree
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The Faraway Tree
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The Faraway Tree series
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The Faraway Tree series
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The lands at the top of the Faraway Tree
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The Faraway Tree series
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The Faraway Tree