Crabwalk
E157050
Crabwalk is a 2002 novella by Nobel laureate Günter Grass that explores German wartime guilt and memory through the fictionalized aftermath of the 1945 sinking of the refugee ship Wilhelm Gustloff.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crabwalk canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1369046 — 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: Crabwalk Context triple: [Günter Grass, notableWork, Crabwalk]
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A.
The Shag
The Shag is a swing-style partner dance that originated in the Carolina beach communities and is closely associated with beach music culture.
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B.
River Suck
River Suck is a major river in western Ireland that flows through counties such as Roscommon and Galway before joining the River Shannon.
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C.
Achin’ to Be
"Achin’ to Be" is a punk rock song by the American band Pinhead Gunpowder, known for its melodic hooks and association with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
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D.
Waterfoot
Waterfoot is a small town in the Rossendale Valley of Lancashire, England, known historically for its textile industry and scenic Pennine surroundings.
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E.
The Tub
The Tub is an 1886 pastel and mixed-media artwork by Edgar Degas depicting a woman bathing, celebrated for its unusual overhead perspective and intimate, everyday subject.
- 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: Crabwalk Target entity description: Crabwalk is a 2002 novella by Nobel laureate Günter Grass that explores German wartime guilt and memory through the fictionalized aftermath of the 1945 sinking of the refugee ship Wilhelm Gustloff.
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A.
The Shag
The Shag is a swing-style partner dance that originated in the Carolina beach communities and is closely associated with beach music culture.
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B.
River Suck
River Suck is a major river in western Ireland that flows through counties such as Roscommon and Galway before joining the River Shannon.
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C.
Achin’ to Be
"Achin’ to Be" is a punk rock song by the American band Pinhead Gunpowder, known for its melodic hooks and association with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
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D.
Waterfoot
Waterfoot is a small town in the Rossendale Valley of Lancashire, England, known historically for its textile industry and scenic Pennine surroundings.
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E.
The Tub
The Tub is an 1886 pastel and mixed-media artwork by Edgar Degas depicting a woman bathing, celebrated for its unusual overhead perspective and intimate, everyday subject.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novella ⓘ |
| author | Günter Grass ⓘ |
| awardsContext | written after Günter Grass received the Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ |
| basedOn | sinking of the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff ⓘ |
| character |
David Frankfurter
ⓘ
Konrad Pokriefke ⓘ Paul Pokriefke ⓘ Tulla Pokriefke ⓘ Wilhelm Gustloff ⓘ
linked to:
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
|
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| criticalReception |
considered an important late work of Günter Grass
ⓘ
widely discussed in Germany ⓘ |
| EnglishTitle | Crabwalk ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 2002-02-01 ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
war fiction ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | English ⓘ |
| ISBN | 978-3-88243-800-6 ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postwar German literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
German wartime guilt
ⓘ
collective memory ⓘ historical responsibility ⓘ intergenerational trauma ⓘ neo-Nazism ⓘ refugees ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| motif | crab-like backward movement through history ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
ⓘ
linked to:
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
|
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Paul Pokriefke ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Im Krebsgang ⓘ |
| pageCount | about 234 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Steidl
ⓘ
linked to:
Steidl Verlag
|
| settingPeriod |
Second World War
ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
post-war Germany ⓘ
linked to:
Allied occupation of Germany
|
| structure | non-linear narrative ⓘ |
| style | blend of reportage and fiction ⓘ |
| subjectOf | literary criticism on memory and history in German literature ⓘ |
| titleMetaphor | nonlinear, sideways approach to the past ⓘ |
| topic |
East Prussian refugees
ⓘ
German civilian suffering in World War II ⓘ use of history by extremist groups ⓘ |
| translatorToEnglish | Krishna Winston ⓘ |
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Referenced by (12)
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