The Land of Nod
E1040397
"The Land of Nod" is a classic Robert Louis Stevenson poem that imagines a dreamy, fantastical place children visit in their sleep.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Land of Nod | 1 |
| The Land of Nod canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13437516 — 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 Land of Nod Context triple: [A Child’s Garden of Verses, hasPoem, The Land of Nod]
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A.
The Ancient Child
The Ancient Child is a novel by N. Scott Momaday that blends Native American mythology with a contemporary coming-of-age story about identity, memory, and transformation.
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B.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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C.
The Land of Dreams
The Land of Dreams is a fantastical realm in Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree stories where visitors experience vivid, often whimsical dreams and adventures.
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D.
The Golden Bed
The Golden Bed is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, known for its opulent production design and melodramatic story of love, decadence, and downfall.
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E.
Book of the Sleeping
Book of the Sleeping is the English rendering of the title of the Sauptika Parva, a section of the Indian epic Mahabharata that narrates the night-time massacre of sleeping warriors.
- 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 Land of Nod Target entity description: "The Land of Nod" is a classic Robert Louis Stevenson poem that imagines a dreamy, fantastical place children visit in their sleep.
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A.
The Ancient Child
The Ancient Child is a novel by N. Scott Momaday that blends Native American mythology with a contemporary coming-of-age story about identity, memory, and transformation.
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B.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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C.
The Land of Dreams
The Land of Dreams is a fantastical realm in Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree stories where visitors experience vivid, often whimsical dreams and adventures.
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D.
The Golden Bed
The Golden Bed is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, known for its opulent production design and melodramatic story of love, decadence, and downfall.
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E.
Book of the Sleeping
Book of the Sleeping is the English rendering of the title of the Sauptika Parva, a section of the Indian epic Mahabharata that narrates the night-time massacre of sleeping warriors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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poem ⓘ |
| alludesTo | Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| author | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts | imaginary land visited in sleep ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1885 ⓘ |
| genre | children's poetry ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | child narrator ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | classic bedtime poem ⓘ |
| hasForm | lyric poem ⓘ |
| hasIllustratedEditions | yes ⓘ |
| hasPublicDomainStatus | public domain in many countries ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | biblical phrase "Land of Nod" ⓘ |
| includedIn | children's literature anthologies ⓘ |
| influenced | later children's bedtime poetry ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Robert Louis Stevenson bibliography ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | English literature courses ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| meter | accentual-syllabic verse ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originalCollection |
A Child's Garden of Verses
ⓘ
linked to:
A Child’s Garden of Verses
|
| primaryTheme |
childhood imagination
ⓘ
dreams ⓘ journey ⓘ sleep ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | regular rhyme scheme ⓘ |
| setting | dream world ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | sleep and dreaming in childhood ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| tone |
dreamy
ⓘ
whimsical ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Land of Nod Description of subject: "The Land of Nod" is a classic Robert Louis Stevenson poem that imagines a dreamy, fantastical place children visit in their sleep.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Land of Nod