La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader
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La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader is a novel by Jorge Semprún that imaginatively revisits the life and psychological fate of Leon Trotsky’s assassin within the broader context of 20th-century totalitarianism.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader canonical | 3 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader Context triple: [Jorge Semprún, notableWork, La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader]
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader Target entity description: La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader is a novel by Jorge Semprún that imaginatively revisits the life and psychological fate of Leon Trotsky’s assassin within the broader context of 20th-century totalitarianism.
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A.
The Paquete Habana
The Paquete Habana is a landmark 1900 U.S. Supreme Court case that established that customary international law is part of U.S. law, holding that small coastal fishing vessels are exempt from capture as prizes of war.
-
B.
El Calabozo massacre
The El Calabozo massacre was a 1982 atrocity during the Salvadoran Civil War in which the U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion killed hundreds of civilians, becoming one of the conflict’s most infamous human rights abuses.
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C.
Patria o Muerte
Patria o Muerte is a famous Cuban revolutionary slogan meaning "Homeland or Death," closely associated with Fidel Castro and the post-1959 Cuban state.
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D.
Domingo de Salazar
Domingo de Salazar was a Spanish Dominican friar who became the first bishop of Manila and played a key role in establishing the Catholic Church in the Philippines in the late 16th century.
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E.
The Executioners
The Executioners is a 1957 crime thriller novel by John D. MacDonald that tells the story of a lawyer and his family terrorized by a vengeful ex-convict, later famously adapted into the film Cape Fear.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| about |
20th-century politics
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Leon Trotsky ⓘ Ramón Mercader ⓘ Soviet secret services ⓘ Spanish Civil War legacy ⓘ Stalinism ⓘ assassination of Leon Trotsky ⓘ guilt ⓘ identity ⓘ memory ⓘ political violence ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ |
| author | Jorge Semprún ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ramón Mercader ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Jorge Semprún ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
exile
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historical responsibility ⓘ ideological fanaticism ⓘ individual under totalitarian regimes ⓘ political commitment ⓘ |
| genre |
historical novel
ⓘ
political novel ⓘ psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasFictionalizedElements | true ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Leon Trotsky’s assassination
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Soviet communism ⓘ Spanish communists in exile ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postwar European literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Ramón Mercader ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| workInAuthorCorpus | Jorge Semprún bibliography ⓘ |
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Subject: La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader Description of subject: La deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader is a novel by Jorge Semprún that imaginatively revisits the life and psychological fate of Leon Trotsky’s assassin within the broader context of 20th-century totalitarianism.
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