A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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American literature book nonfiction work travel narrative

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is Henry David Thoreau’s reflective travel narrative that blends natural observation, philosophy, and personal memoir based on a boating trip he took with his brother.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers canonical	4

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American literature ⓘ book ⓘ nonfiction work ⓘ travel narrative ⓘ
author	Henry David Thoreau ⓘ
authorNationality	American ⓘ
authorOccupation	essayist ⓘ naturalist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ
basedOn	boating trip with John Thoreau Jr. ⓘ
contains	autobiographical elements ⓘ descriptions of New England rivers ⓘ historical reflections ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ philosophical digressions ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
featuresCharacter	Henry David Thoreau ⓘ surface form: John Thoreau Jr.
form	prose ⓘ
genre	memoir ⓘ nature writing ⓘ philosophical literature ⓘ travel literature ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	American nature writing ⓘ environmental literature ⓘ
hasPart	Friday ⓘ Monday ⓘ Saturday ⓘ Sunday ⓘ Thursday ⓘ Tuesday ⓘ Wednesday ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryMovement	Transcendentalism ⓘ
mainCharacter	Henry David Thoreau ⓘ
relatedWork	Walden; or, Life in the Woods ⓘ surface form: Walden
setting	Concord River ⓘ Merrimack River ⓘ
structure	seven-day narrative ⓘ
subject	New England geography ⓘ boating journey ⓘ personal reflection ⓘ
theme	American landscape ⓘ friendship ⓘ memory ⓘ nature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ spiritual reflection ⓘ
title	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers self-link ⓘ

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: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Description of subject: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is Henry David Thoreau’s reflective travel narrative that blends natural observation, philosophy, and personal memoir based on a boating trip he took with his brother.

Referenced by (4)

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

Henry David Thoreau → notableWork → A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ⓘ

Henry David Thoreau → wrote → A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ⓘ

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers → title → A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers self-link ⓘ

The Maine Woods → relatedWork → A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ⓘ