Dom Casmurro
E515086
Dom Casmurro is a classic Brazilian realist novel by Machado de Assis that explores themes of jealousy, memory, and unreliable narration through the story of Bento Santiago and his suspicions about his wife Capitu.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dom Casmurro canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5385083 — 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: Dom Casmurro Context triple: [Machado de Assis, notableWork, Dom Casmurro]
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A.
El Viejo
El Viejo is a municipality in northwestern Nicaragua known for its colonial architecture and religious traditions, particularly the veneration of the Virgin of El Viejo.
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El Viejo
El Viejo is a nickname for San Cristóbal, a city in the Dominican Republic known for its historical significance and proximity to the capital, Santo Domingo.
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C.
El Loco
El Loco is the famous nickname of Argentine football manager Marcelo Bielsa, known for his intense, unorthodox tactics and obsessive attention to detail.
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D.
Bobadilla
Bobadilla is a Spanish surname associated with various historical figures, places, and families of Iberian origin.
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E.
Cansino
Cansino is the original family surname of Hollywood actress and dancer Rita Hayworth, reflecting her Spanish heritage.
- 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: Dom Casmurro Target entity description: Dom Casmurro is a classic Brazilian realist novel by Machado de Assis that explores themes of jealousy, memory, and unreliable narration through the story of Bento Santiago and his suspicions about his wife Capitu.
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A.
El Viejo
El Viejo is a municipality in northwestern Nicaragua known for its colonial architecture and religious traditions, particularly the veneration of the Virgin of El Viejo.
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B.
El Viejo
El Viejo is a nickname for San Cristóbal, a city in the Dominican Republic known for its historical significance and proximity to the capital, Santo Domingo.
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C.
El Loco
El Loco is the famous nickname of Argentine football manager Marcelo Bielsa, known for his intense, unorthodox tactics and obsessive attention to detail.
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D.
Bobadilla
Bobadilla is a Spanish surname associated with various historical figures, places, and families of Iberian origin.
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E.
Cansino
Cansino is the original family surname of Hollywood actress and dancer Rita Hayworth, reflecting her Spanish heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
television series
ⓘ
theater play ⓘ |
| author | Machado de Assis ⓘ |
| centralConflict | Bento Santiago's suspicion of Capitu's infidelity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Brazil ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | serial ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | newspaper ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological fiction
ⓘ
realism ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Dona Glória
ⓘ
Escobar ⓘ José Dias ⓘ Prudêncio ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
appearance versus reality
ⓘ
doubt ⓘ memory reconstruction ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | Capitu's "oblique and dissimulated" eyes ⓘ |
| influenced | Brazilian literature ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Realism in Brazil ⓘ |
| literaryStatus |
canonical work in Portuguese-language literature
ⓘ
classic of Brazilian literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Bento Santiago
ⓘ
Capitu ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Bento Santiago ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambiguous ending
ⓘ
psychological depth ⓘ unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| partOf | Machado de Assis's realist phase ⓘ |
| protagonist | Bento Santiago ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1899 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstBookEdition | Livraria Garnier ⓘ |
| setting | Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| structure | retrospective narrative ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal
ⓘ
jealousy ⓘ marriage ⓘ memory ⓘ social class ⓘ subjectivity of truth ⓘ unreliable narration ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| titleCharacterNicknameMeaning | "Dom Casmurro" means "Lord Taciturn" or "Lord Sullen" in Portuguese ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Dom Casmurro Description of subject: Dom Casmurro is a classic Brazilian realist novel by Machado de Assis that explores themes of jealousy, memory, and unreliable narration through the story of Bento Santiago and his suspicions about his wife Capitu.
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