Phelps farm
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Phelps farm is the rural Mississippi plantation owned by the Phelps family in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," where key events near the novel’s end take place.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phelps farm canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1770673 — 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: Phelps farm Context triple: [Aunt Sally Phelps, residence, Phelps farm]
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A.
Wagner Farm
Wagner Farm is a historic working farm and educational attraction in Glenview, Illinois, where visitors can learn about and experience traditional Midwestern farm life.
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B.
Brawner Farm
Brawner Farm is a historic Civil War site within Manassas National Battlefield Park, known as the location of intense fighting during the Second Battle of Bull Run.
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C.
Kolb Farm
Kolb Farm is a historic Civil War-era farmstead in Georgia that served as a key site during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
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D.
Heritage Farm
Heritage Farm is an educational working farm within Snug Harbor that showcases historic agricultural practices, livestock, and sustainable food production.
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E.
Lookout Farm
Lookout Farm is the English meaning of “Finca Vigía,” the Cuban hillside estate where Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote several of his major works.
- 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: Phelps farm Target entity description: Phelps farm is the rural Mississippi plantation owned by the Phelps family in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," where key events near the novel’s end take place.
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A.
Wagner Farm
Wagner Farm is a historic working farm and educational attraction in Glenview, Illinois, where visitors can learn about and experience traditional Midwestern farm life.
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B.
Brawner Farm
Brawner Farm is a historic Civil War site within Manassas National Battlefield Park, known as the location of intense fighting during the Second Battle of Bull Run.
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C.
Kolb Farm
Kolb Farm is a historic Civil War-era farmstead in Georgia that served as a key site during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
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D.
Heritage Farm
Heritage Farm is an educational working farm within Snug Harbor that showcases historic agricultural practices, livestock, and sustainable food production.
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E.
Lookout Farm
Lookout Farm is the English meaning of “Finca Vigía,” the Cuban hillside estate where Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote several of his major works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
farm
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fictional location ⓘ plantation ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Phelps plantation ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter | the final chapters of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ⓘ |
| associatedCharacter |
Aunt Polly
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Huckleberry Finn ⓘ Jim ⓘ Sally Phelps ⓘ Silas Phelps ⓘ Tom Sawyer ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Mark Twain ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1884 ⓘ |
| functionInStory | contrast between domestic respectability and the injustice of slavery ⓘ |
| genreContext |
American realist literature
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picaresque novel ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | site of the controversial ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | Mississippi ⓘ |
| locatedInWork | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
location of Jim’s imprisonment
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location where Huck Finn is mistaken for Tom Sawyer ⓘ location where Tom Sawyer devises an elaborate escape plan ⓘ setting of the novel’s climax ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Phelps family
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Sally Phelps ⓘ Silas Phelps ⓘ |
| partOf | the lower Mississippi River region (fictionalized) ⓘ |
| plotEvent |
Huck decides to help free Jim
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Jim is held as a captive slave on the farm ⓘ Jim’s legal freedom is revealed ⓘ Tom Sawyer constructs an unnecessarily complicated escape scheme ⓘ Tom is wounded during Jim’s escape ⓘ |
| theme |
freedom
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moral growth ⓘ satire of romantic adventure ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | pre–American Civil War era ⓘ |
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Subject: Phelps farm Description of subject: Phelps farm is the rural Mississippi plantation owned by the Phelps family in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," where key events near the novel’s end take place.
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