Growth of the Soil
E140436
Growth of the Soil is a 1917 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun that portrays the life of a simple farmer and celebrates a back-to-the-land, agrarian ideal.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Growth of the Soil canonical | 4 |
| Growth of the Soil (1921 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1229728 — 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: Growth of the Soil Context triple: [Knut Hamsun, notableWork, Growth of the Soil]
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A.
Burnt Norton
Burnt Norton is the first of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, a meditative poem reflecting on time, memory, and spiritual insight.
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B.
The Sower
The Sower is a famous mid-19th-century painting by Jean-François Millet that powerfully depicts a peasant farmer sowing seeds, symbolizing rural labor and social realism.
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C.
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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D.
The Blue and Brown Books
The Blue and Brown Books are posthumously published sets of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s lecture notes that mark his transition from the ideas of the Tractatus to the later philosophy of language developed in Philosophical Investigations.
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E.
How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film set in a Welsh mining community, renowned for its poignant depiction of family life and social change and for winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- 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: Growth of the Soil Target entity description: Growth of the Soil is a 1917 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun that portrays the life of a simple farmer and celebrates a back-to-the-land, agrarian ideal.
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A.
Burnt Norton
Burnt Norton is the first of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, a meditative poem reflecting on time, memory, and spiritual insight.
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B.
The Sower
The Sower is a famous mid-19th-century painting by Jean-François Millet that powerfully depicts a peasant farmer sowing seeds, symbolizing rural labor and social realism.
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C.
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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D.
The Blue and Brown Books
The Blue and Brown Books are posthumously published sets of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s lecture notes that mark his transition from the ideas of the Tractatus to the later philosophy of language developed in Philosophical Investigations.
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E.
How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film set in a Welsh mining community, renowned for its poignant depiction of family life and social change and for winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Growth of the Soil
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Growth of the Soil (1921 film)
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| author | Knut Hamsun ⓘ |
| awarded |
Nobel Prize in Literature
ⓘ
surface form:
Nobel Prize in Literature (to its author)
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| contributedTo | Knut Hamsun receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Norway ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Gunnar Sommerfeldt ⓘ |
| firstEditionYear | 1917 ⓘ |
| genre |
novel
ⓘ
pastoral fiction ⓘ rural novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Barbro
ⓘ
Eleseus ⓘ Geissler ⓘ Inger ⓘ Sivert ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Book One
ⓘ
Book Two ⓘ |
| influenced | 20th-century rural literature ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Norwegian ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
celebration of agrarian ideals
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critique of urbanization and industrialization ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Isak ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
Norwegian language
ⓘ
surface form:
Norwegian
|
| placeInCanon | major work of Norwegian literature ⓘ |
| portrays |
life of a simple farmer
ⓘ
settlement and cultivation of wilderness land ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1917 ⓘ |
| publisher | Gyldendal ⓘ |
| setting | rural Norway ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
family life on a farm
ⓘ
homesteading ⓘ subsistence farming ⓘ |
| theme |
agrarianism
ⓘ
back-to-the-land ideal ⓘ modernity versus tradition ⓘ relationship between humans and nature ⓘ rural life ⓘ work and productivity ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 19th century to early 20th century ⓘ |
| titleInNorwegian | Markens Grøde ⓘ |
| translatedInto |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ many other languages ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Growth of the Soil Description of subject: Growth of the Soil is a 1917 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun that portrays the life of a simple farmer and celebrates a back-to-the-land, agrarian ideal.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Growth of the Soil (1921 film)