Faust (opera)

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Faust (opera) is Charles Gounod’s 1859 French grand opera, based on Goethe’s drama, that centers on the scholar Faust’s pact with the devil Méphistophélès and his tragic love for Marguerite.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Faust (opera) canonical	2
Faust (Charles Gounod)	1
Faust (opera production)	1
Faust in Gounod's Faust	1
Faust is a tenor role	1
Gounod's Faust	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18519163 — 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: Faust (opera)
Context triple: [Mephistopheles (Gounod's Faust), appearsIn, Faust (opera)]

A. Doctor Faustus (opera)
Doctor Faustus (opera) is a 20th-century operatic adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s tragic play about the scholar who sells his soul to the devil.
B. Faust, Part One
Faust, Part One is the first part of Goethe’s dramatic masterpiece that retells the Faust legend, exploring themes of ambition, desire, and the quest for meaning through a pact with the devil.
C. Faust
Faust is a pioneering German krautrock band formed in the early 1970s, known for their experimental sound collages and influential role in avant-garde rock music.
D. Faust
Faust is the ambitious scholar who makes a pact with the devil in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s landmark dramatic poem, embodying the human struggle for knowledge, pleasure, and redemption.
E. Faust, Part Two
Faust, Part Two is the second part of Goethe’s monumental dramatic poem that deepens and concludes the story of Faust through expansive philosophical, political, and metaphysical themes.
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: Faust (opera)
Target entity description: Faust (opera) is Charles Gounod’s 1859 French grand opera, based on Goethe’s drama, that centers on the scholar Faust’s pact with the devil Méphistophélès and his tragic love for Marguerite.

A. Doctor Faustus (opera)
Doctor Faustus (opera) is a 20th-century operatic adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s tragic play about the scholar who sells his soul to the devil.
B. Faust, Part One
Faust, Part One is the first part of Goethe’s dramatic masterpiece that retells the Faust legend, exploring themes of ambition, desire, and the quest for meaning through a pact with the devil.
C. Faust
Faust is the ambitious scholar who makes a pact with the devil in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s landmark dramatic poem, embodying the human struggle for knowledge, pleasure, and redemption.
D. Faust
Faust is a pioneering German krautrock band formed in the early 1970s, known for their experimental sound collages and influential role in avant-garde rock music.
E. Faust, Part Two
Faust, Part Two is the second part of Goethe’s monumental dramatic poem that deepens and concludes the story of Faust through expansive philosophical, political, and metaphysical themes.
F. None of above. chosen