The Violent Land
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The Violent Land is a classic Brazilian novel by Jorge Amado that portrays the brutal struggles over land and power in the cacao-growing region of Bahia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Violent Land canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10486963 — 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 Violent Land Context triple: [Jorge Amado, notableWork, The Violent Land]
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A.
A Savage Place
A Savage Place is a crime novel in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series, featuring the Boston private investigator tackling corruption and danger in Hollywood.
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B.
The Cursing of the Land
The Cursing of the Land is a seminal work by Iranian writer Jalal Al-e-Ahmad that critiques the social and cultural consequences of modernization and Western influence in Iran.
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C.
Valley of Blood
Valley of Blood is the literal meaning of the name "Khunjerab," a high mountain pass on the border between Pakistan and China known for its dramatic terrain and historical peril.
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D.
The Violent Ones
The Violent Ones is a crime novel by E. Howard Hunt that reflects his hardboiled, politically tinged storytelling style.
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E.
This Hard Land
"This Hard Land" is a Bruce Springsteen song, originally recorded in the early 1980s and later released on his "Greatest Hits" compilation, known for its themes of resilience and the American working-class experience.
- 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 Violent Land Target entity description: The Violent Land is a classic Brazilian novel by Jorge Amado that portrays the brutal struggles over land and power in the cacao-growing region of Bahia.
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A.
A Savage Place
A Savage Place is a crime novel in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series, featuring the Boston private investigator tackling corruption and danger in Hollywood.
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B.
The Cursing of the Land
The Cursing of the Land is a seminal work by Iranian writer Jalal Al-e-Ahmad that critiques the social and cultural consequences of modernization and Western influence in Iran.
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C.
Valley of Blood
Valley of Blood is the literal meaning of the name "Khunjerab," a high mountain pass on the border between Pakistan and China known for its dramatic terrain and historical peril.
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D.
The Violent Ones
The Violent Ones is a crime novel by E. Howard Hunt that reflects his hardboiled, politically tinged storytelling style.
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E.
This Hard Land
"This Hard Land" is a Bruce Springsteen song, originally recorded in the early 1980s and later released on his "Greatest Hits" compilation, known for its themes of resilience and the American working-class experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literaryWork
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Jorge Amado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Brazil ⓘ |
| depicts | cacao-growing region of Bahia ⓘ |
| explores |
lawlessness in frontier regions
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political corruption ⓘ social inequality in rural Brazil ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cacao planters
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landowners ⓘ workers in cacao plantations ⓘ |
| genre |
novel
ⓘ
regionalist novel ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Jorge Amado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| hasNotableElement |
depiction of violent land disputes
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portrayal of power struggles among cacao colonels ⓘ |
| hasSettingTime | early 20th century ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Portuguese ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Brazilian modernism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Brazilian regionalist literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
cacao industry
ⓘ
economic exploitation ⓘ land conflict ⓘ struggle for power ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| portrays | brutal struggles over land and power ⓘ |
| setInRegion | cacao-growing region of Bahia ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Bahia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workOrigin | Brazilian literature ⓘ |
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 Violent Land Description of subject: The Violent Land is a classic Brazilian novel by Jorge Amado that portrays the brutal struggles over land and power in the cacao-growing region of Bahia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.