Oklahoma (fictional setting)

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fictional setting literary location rural setting

Oklahoma (fictional setting) is the Dust Bowl–era rural American backdrop depicted in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath," characterized by poverty, drought, and the displacement of farming families.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Oklahoma (fictional setting) canonical	2
Oklahoma (Dust Bowl era)	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fictional setting ⓘ literary location ⓘ rural setting ⓘ
associatedWithFictionalGroup	Joad family ⓘ
countryInFiction	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
depictedIn	The Grapes of Wrath ⓘ
depictedInWorkBy	John Steinbeck ⓘ
depictsEventType	bank repossessions ⓘ dust storms ⓘ eviction of tenant farmers ⓘ foreclosure of farms ⓘ
economicContextInFiction	agrarian crisis ⓘ
firstPublicationContext	The Grapes of Wrath ⓘ surface form: The Grapes of Wrath (1939 novel)
hasCharacteristic	agricultural ⓘ drought ⓘ economic hardship ⓘ environmental degradation ⓘ poverty ⓘ rural ⓘ
hasTheme	displacement of farming families ⓘ loss of land ⓘ migration ⓘ social injustice ⓘ tenant farming ⓘ
influencesPerceptionOf	Dust Bowl migrants ⓘ surface form: Dust Bowl migration Okie migrants in popular culture ⓘ
languageOfWorkDepicting	English ⓘ
literaryMovementContext	Realism ⓘ surface form: American realism proletarian literature ⓘ
locatedInFictional	Oklahoma ⓘ
medium	novel ⓘ
narrativeFunction	contrast to California setting ⓘ origin of migrant families ⓘ symbol of hardship ⓘ
represents	Dust Bowl conditions ⓘ collapse of small-scale farming ⓘ impact of environmental disaster on rural communities ⓘ powerlessness of tenant farmers ⓘ
socialContextInFiction	breakdown of rural communities ⓘ class conflict ⓘ
startingPointOfJourneyFor	Joad family ⓘ
timePeriodInFiction	Dust Bowl era ⓘ Great Depression ⓘ
usedFor	critique of economic systems ⓘ social realism ⓘ

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: Oklahoma (fictional setting)
Description of subject: Oklahoma (fictional setting) is the Dust Bowl–era rural American backdrop depicted in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Grapes of Wrath," characterized by poverty, drought, and the displacement of farming families.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rose of Sharon Joad → originatesFrom → Oklahoma (fictional setting) ⓘ

Noah Joad → basedIn → Oklahoma (fictional setting) ⓘ

Granma Joad → settingOfActivity → Oklahoma (fictional setting) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Oklahoma (Dust Bowl era)