The Emigrants
E441816
The Emigrants is a classic Swedish novel by Vilhelm Moberg that portrays the hardships and hopes of 19th-century Swedish farmers who emigrate to the United States.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Emigrants canonical | 4 |
| The Emigrants (1971 film) | 2 |
| The Emigrants (2015 film) | 2 |
| Invandrarna | 1 |
| The Emigrants (novel) | 1 |
| The Emigrants novel series | 1 |
| The Emigrants series | 1 |
| Utvandrarna | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4478354 — 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: The Emigrants Context triple: [Vilhelm Moberg, notableWork, The Emigrants]
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A.
We Were All Uprooted
"We Were All Uprooted" is an atmospheric, synthesizer-driven instrumental track by Vangelis, featured on his 1973 album "Earth."
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B.
A Long Petal of the Sea
A Long Petal of the Sea is a historical novel by Isabel Allende that follows Spanish Civil War refugees exiled to Chile, exploring themes of displacement, love, and political upheaval across decades.
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C.
The Immigrant
The Immigrant is a 2013 period drama film directed by James Gray, following a Polish immigrant in 1920s New York who becomes entangled with a charismatic but exploitative man while trying to save her ill sister.
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D.
The Immigrant
The Immigrant is a 1917 silent comedy short film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character, depicting his humorous and poignant experiences as an immigrant arriving in America.
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E.
Exit West
Exit West is a critically acclaimed 2017 novel by Mohsin Hamid that blends magical realism and refugee narratives to explore migration, love, and displacement through mysterious doors that transport people across borders.
- 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: The Emigrants Target entity description: The Emigrants is a classic Swedish novel by Vilhelm Moberg that portrays the hardships and hopes of 19th-century Swedish farmers who emigrate to the United States.
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A.
We Were All Uprooted
"We Were All Uprooted" is an atmospheric, synthesizer-driven instrumental track by Vangelis, featured on his 1973 album "Earth."
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B.
A Long Petal of the Sea
A Long Petal of the Sea is a historical novel by Isabel Allende that follows Spanish Civil War refugees exiled to Chile, exploring themes of displacement, love, and political upheaval across decades.
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C.
The Immigrant
The Immigrant is a 2013 period drama film directed by James Gray, following a Polish immigrant in 1920s New York who becomes entangled with a charismatic but exploitative man while trying to save her ill sister.
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D.
The Immigrant
The Immigrant is a 1917 silent comedy short film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character, depicting his humorous and poignant experiences as an immigrant arriving in America.
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E.
Exit West
Exit West is a critically acclaimed 2017 novel by Mohsin Hamid that blends magical realism and refugee narratives to explore migration, love, and displacement through mysterious doors that transport people across borders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | film ⓘ |
| author | Vilhelm Moberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| depictsMigrationFrom | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictsMigrationTo | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Arvid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Karl Oskar Nilsson NERFINISHED ⓘ Kristina Nilsson NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Nilsson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Jan Troell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn | Swedish farmers ⓘ |
| followedBy | Unto a Good Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
historical novel
ⓘ
realist novel ⓘ |
| hasFilmAdaptationTitle | The Emigrants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
The Last Letter Home
NERFINISHED
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The Settlers NERFINISHED ⓘ Unto a Good Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | mass Swedish emigration to North America ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Swedish realism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | considered a classic of Swedish literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
emigration
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hope ⓘ poverty ⓘ religious oppression ⓘ search for a better life ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of peasant life
ⓘ
influence on Swedish national identity ⓘ portrayal of Swedish-American immigrant experience ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Swedish ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Emigrants series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
Atlantic crossing to America
ⓘ
hardships of rural life in Sweden ⓘ settlement in the United States ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Last Letter Home
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Settlers NERFINISHED ⓘ Unto a Good Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
Småland, Sweden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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: The Emigrants Description of subject: The Emigrants is a classic Swedish novel by Vilhelm Moberg that portrays the hardships and hopes of 19th-century Swedish farmers who emigrate to the United States.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Emigrants series
this entity surface form:
The Emigrants (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Emigrants (1971 film)
this entity surface form:
The Emigrants (2015 film)
this entity surface form:
The Emigrants (2015 film)
this entity surface form:
The Emigrants novel series
this entity surface form:
Utvandrarna
this entity surface form:
Invandrarna
this entity surface form:
The Emigrants (1971 film)