Fordlandia
E169370
Fordlandia is a historical non-fiction book by Greg Grandin that examines Henry Ford’s failed attempt to build a rubber-producing utopian company town in the Brazilian Amazon.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fordlandia canonical | 1 |
| Fordlândia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1481800 — 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: Fordlandia Context triple: [Greg Grandin, notableWork, Fordlandia]
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A.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is a nonfiction book by David Grann that chronicles British explorer Percy Fawcett’s ill-fated quest for a fabled ancient civilization in the Amazon rainforest and the modern investigation into his disappearance.
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B.
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is a 2016 biographical adventure film about British explorer Percy Fawcett’s obsessive search for a fabled ancient civilization in the Amazon rainforest.
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C.
Eldorado
Eldorado is a casino and hospitality brand associated with Caesars Entertainment, known for its gaming resorts and entertainment properties.
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D.
Terra Nova
Terra Nova is a major offshore oil field and production facility located on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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E.
Land of Giants
Land of Giants is a folk music album by The New Christy Minstrels that showcases the group’s signature 1960s choral folk style and storytelling songs.
- 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: Fordlandia Target entity description: Fordlandia is a historical non-fiction book by Greg Grandin that examines Henry Ford’s failed attempt to build a rubber-producing utopian company town in the Brazilian Amazon.
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A.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is a nonfiction book by David Grann that chronicles British explorer Percy Fawcett’s ill-fated quest for a fabled ancient civilization in the Amazon rainforest and the modern investigation into his disappearance.
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B.
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is a 2016 biographical adventure film about British explorer Percy Fawcett’s obsessive search for a fabled ancient civilization in the Amazon rainforest.
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C.
Eldorado
Eldorado is a casino and hospitality brand associated with Caesars Entertainment, known for its gaming resorts and entertainment properties.
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D.
Terra Nova
Terra Nova is a major offshore oil field and production facility located on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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E.
Land of Giants
Land of Giants is a folk music album by The New Christy Minstrels that showcases the group’s signature 1960s choral folk style and storytelling songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Greg Grandin ⓘ |
| awarded |
National Book Award for Nonfiction
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surface form:
National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist
Pulitzer Prize for History finalist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOn |
Henry Ford’s attempt to secure rubber supply
ⓘ
cultural clash between American managers and Brazilian workers ⓘ environmental impact of Ford’s project ⓘ failure of Ford’s Amazon project ⓘ industrialization of the Amazon ⓘ labor relations in Fordlândia ⓘ |
| genre |
history
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasDeweyDecimalClassification | 338.7 ⓘ |
| hasForm |
case study
ⓘ
historical narrative ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780805079510 ⓘ |
| hasLibraryOfCongressClassification | HD9725.F553 ⓘ |
| hasSubjectHeading |
Amazon River Region—History
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Brazil—Foreign economic relations—United States ⓘ Company towns—Brazil—History ⓘ Ford Motor Company—History ⓘ Henry Ford ⓘ
surface form:
Henry Ford—Biography
Rubber industry and trade—Brazil—History ⓘ Brazil–United States relations ⓘ
surface form:
United States—Foreign economic relations—Brazil
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Amazon rainforest
ⓘ
surface form:
Brazilian Amazon
Ford Motor Company ⓘ Fordlândia (company town) ⓘ Henry Ford ⓘ Brazil–United States relations ⓘ
surface form:
United States–Brazil relations
company towns ⓘ rubber industry ⓘ utopian communities ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of American industrial utopianism abroad
ⓘ
detailed account of Ford’s Amazon experiment ⓘ |
| pageCount | ~400 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| publisher | Metropolitan Books ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1920s
ⓘ
1930s ⓘ |
| setting |
Amazon rainforest
ⓘ
Pará ⓘ
surface form:
Pará, Brazil
|
| timeSpanDescribed |
early 20th century
ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Fordlandia Description of subject: Fordlandia is a historical non-fiction book by Greg Grandin that examines Henry Ford’s failed attempt to build a rubber-producing utopian company town in the Brazilian Amazon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fordlândia