The Learning Tree
E265849
The Learning Tree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gordon Parks that portrays an African American boy’s coming-of-age in 1920s Kansas amid racism and moral conflict.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Learning Tree canonical | 4 |
| The Learning Tree (1969 film) | 2 |
| The Learning Tree (1963 novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2425443 — 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 Learning Tree Context triple: [Gordon Parks, notableWork, The Learning Tree]
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A.
The Curious Savage
The Curious Savage is a comedic stage play by John Patrick that follows an eccentric widow who is committed to a sanatorium by her greedy stepchildren, exploring themes of sanity, kindness, and the value of nonconformity.
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B.
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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C.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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D.
L’Enfant
"L’Enfant" is a contemplative instrumental track by Greek composer Vangelis, featured on his 1979 electronic album *Opera Sauvage* and later known for its use in film and television.
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E.
Teach Your Children
"Teach Your Children" is a folk-rock song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young known for its gentle harmonies and reflective lyrics about intergenerational understanding and guidance.
- 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 Learning Tree Target entity description: The Learning Tree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gordon Parks that portrays an African American boy’s coming-of-age in 1920s Kansas amid racism and moral conflict.
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A.
The Curious Savage
The Curious Savage is a comedic stage play by John Patrick that follows an eccentric widow who is committed to a sanatorium by her greedy stepchildren, exploring themes of sanity, kindness, and the value of nonconformity.
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B.
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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C.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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D.
L’Enfant
"L’Enfant" is a contemplative instrumental track by Greek composer Vangelis, featured on his 1979 electronic album *Opera Sauvage* and later known for its use in film and television.
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E.
Teach Your Children
"Teach Your Children" is a folk-rock song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young known for its gentle harmonies and reflective lyrics about intergenerational understanding and guidance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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semi-autobiographical novel ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector | Gordon Parks ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| author | Gordon Parks ⓘ |
| basedOn | Gordon Parks' childhood experiences ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts | African American life in early 20th-century Kansas ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical fiction
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coming-of-age novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Learning Tree (1969 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Learning Tree
|
| literaryMovement | African-American literature ⓘ |
| literaryTheme |
coming of age
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family ⓘ identity ⓘ moral conflict ⓘ poverty ⓘ racial injustice ⓘ racism ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Newt Winger ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Gordon Parks' first novel
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portrayal of systemic racism in the American Midwest ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| publisher | Harper & Row ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Kansas ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1920s ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | metaphor for life lessons learned through experience ⓘ |
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 Learning Tree Description of subject: The Learning Tree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gordon Parks that portrays an African American boy’s coming-of-age in 1920s Kansas amid racism and moral conflict.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
linked to: The Learning Tree
subject linked to:
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
linked to: The Learning Tree
linked to: The Learning Tree