Brook Farm
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Brook Farm was a 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community in Massachusetts that sought to combine intellectual pursuits with cooperative agricultural labor.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brook Farm canonical | 5 |
| Brook Farm community | 4 |
| Brook Farm Historic Site | 1 |
| Brook Farm historic site | 1 |
| Brook Farm utopian community | 1 |
| Brook Farm, Massachusetts | 1 |
| Fruitlands | 1 |
| the utopian community of Blithedale | 1 |
| utopian community of Blithedale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2021439 — 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.
Target entity: Brook Farm Context triple: [The Blithedale Romance, inspiredBy, Brook Farm]
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Easter Island Commune
Easter Island Commune is the local administrative municipality that governs Easter Island, a remote Chilean territory in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
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Saybrook Colony
Saybrook Colony was an early 17th-century English settlement in what is now Connecticut, later absorbed into the Connecticut Colony and notable for its role in regional conflicts with Native American tribes.
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Hull House
Hull House was a pioneering settlement house in Chicago that became a major center for social reform, education, and community services for immigrants and the urban poor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Village of Walden, New York
The Village of Walden is a small Hudson Valley community in Orange County, New York, known historically for its knife manufacturing industry and location along the Wallkill River.
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Harvard Cooperative Society
The Harvard Cooperative Society is a long-standing cooperative campus store and bookstore serving the Harvard University community with textbooks, merchandise, and related services.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Brook Farm Target entity description: Brook Farm was a 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community in Massachusetts that sought to combine intellectual pursuits with cooperative agricultural labor.
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A.
Easter Island Commune
Easter Island Commune is the local administrative municipality that governs Easter Island, a remote Chilean territory in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
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B.
Saybrook Colony
Saybrook Colony was an early 17th-century English settlement in what is now Connecticut, later absorbed into the Connecticut Colony and notable for its role in regional conflicts with Native American tribes.
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C.
Hull House
Hull House was a pioneering settlement house in Chicago that became a major center for social reform, education, and community services for immigrants and the urban poor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Village of Walden, New York
The Village of Walden is a small Hudson Valley community in Orange County, New York, known historically for its knife manufacturing industry and location along the Wallkill River.
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E.
Harvard Cooperative Society
The Harvard Cooperative Society is a long-standing cooperative campus store and bookstore serving the Harvard University community with textbooks, merchandise, and related services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former populated place
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intentional community ⓘ transcendentalist community ⓘ utopian community ⓘ |
| adoptedModel | Fourierist phalanx ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| economicBasis |
communal ownership of productive property
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cooperative agriculture ⓘ shared labor ⓘ |
| educationPolicy |
emphasized liberal education
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offered co-educational schooling ⓘ |
| endDate | 1847 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
George Ripley
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Sophia Ripley ⓘ |
| genderPolicy | promoted greater equality for women ⓘ |
| hadActivity |
farming
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lectures ⓘ literary discussions ⓘ teaching ⓘ |
| hadResident |
Charles A. Dana
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George Ripley ⓘ Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ Sophia Ripley ⓘ |
| hadVisitor |
Margaret Fuller
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Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to combine intellectual pursuits with manual labor
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to create a more equitable social organization ⓘ to provide a community for transcendentalist thinkers ⓘ |
| heritageStatus |
designated a National Historic Site area
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listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Charles Fourier
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Transcendentalism ⓘ utopian socialism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with American transcendentalists
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experiment in communal living ⓘ progressive education practices ⓘ |
| literaryInfluence | inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The Blithedale Romance" ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Massachusetts
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New England ⓘ Norfolk County, Massachusetts ⓘ West Roxbury ⓘ
surface form:
West Roxbury, Massachusetts
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| organizationalForm | joint-stock company ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century American utopian movement ⓘ |
| reasonForDecline |
financial difficulties
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fire at the main building in 1846 ⓘ |
| religiousOrientation | Unitarian background ⓘ |
| socialOrientation |
egalitarian
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reformist ⓘ |
| startDate | 1841 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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Subject: Brook Farm Description of subject: Brook Farm was a 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community in Massachusetts that sought to combine intellectual pursuits with cooperative agricultural labor.
Referenced by (16)
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