A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4
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A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4 is a mid-19th-century travel narrative by landscape architect and writer Frederick Law Olmsted, documenting his observations of the American South and its social conditions shortly before the Civil War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Journey in the Back Country | 1 |
| A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T843138 — 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: A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4 Context triple: [Frederick Law Olmsted, wrote, A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4]
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A.
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
"Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl" is a narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier that nostalgically depicts a New England farm family snowed in during a winter storm, reflecting on memory, faith, and rural life.
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B.
My First Summer in the Sierra
My First Summer in the Sierra is a classic nature memoir by John Muir recounting his transformative 1869 experiences in California’s Sierra Nevada and helping inspire the American conservation movement.
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C.
The Maine Woods
The Maine Woods is a posthumously published collection of Henry David Thoreau’s essays recounting his mid-19th-century journeys into the forests of Maine, blending natural history, travel narrative, and philosophical reflection on wilderness.
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D.
Tales of a Traveller
Tales of a Traveller is a collection of short stories by Washington Irving that blends romanticism, humor, and the supernatural in a series of travel-themed tales.
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E.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
- 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: A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4 Target entity description: A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4 is a mid-19th-century travel narrative by landscape architect and writer Frederick Law Olmsted, documenting his observations of the American South and its social conditions shortly before the Civil War.
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A.
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
"Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl" is a narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier that nostalgically depicts a New England farm family snowed in during a winter storm, reflecting on memory, faith, and rural life.
-
B.
My First Summer in the Sierra
My First Summer in the Sierra is a classic nature memoir by John Muir recounting his transformative 1869 experiences in California’s Sierra Nevada and helping inspire the American conservation movement.
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C.
The Maine Woods
The Maine Woods is a posthumously published collection of Henry David Thoreau’s essays recounting his mid-19th-century journeys into the forests of Maine, blending natural history, travel narrative, and philosophical reflection on wilderness.
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D.
Tales of a Traveller
Tales of a Traveller is a collection of short stories by Washington Irving that blends romanticism, humor, and the supernatural in a series of travel-themed tales.
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E.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American literature
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non-fiction book ⓘ travel narrative ⓘ |
| author | Frederick Law Olmsted ⓘ |
| contributor | Frederick Law Olmsted ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
conditions of enslaved people
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plantation life ⓘ rural Southern society ⓘ |
| describes |
daily life in backcountry regions
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economic structure of the slave South ⓘ race relations in the antebellum South ⓘ |
| field |
American history
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Southern studies ⓘ cultural geography ⓘ |
| genre |
social commentary
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travel writing ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation |
journalist
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landscape architect ⓘ social critic ⓘ |
| historicalContext | period shortly before the American Civil War ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | mid-19th century ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
antebellum social conditions ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ |
| perspective | Northern observer ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
A Journey Through Texas
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States ⓘ |
| setting | Southern United States ⓘ |
| timeOfNarrative | winter 1853–1854 ⓘ |
| usedAsSourceFor |
historical research on the antebellum South
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studies of slavery in the United States ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4 Description of subject: A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4 is a mid-19th-century travel narrative by landscape architect and writer Frederick Law Olmsted, documenting his observations of the American South and its social conditions shortly before the Civil War.
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linked to: A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4