Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte
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Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte is a classic German novella about a man who sells his shadow to the Devil, exploring themes of identity, alienation, and the cost of worldly gain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T72562 — 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: Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte Context triple: [Adelbert von Chamisso, notableWork, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte]
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A.
The Thief of Bagdad
The Thief of Bagdad is a landmark 1924 silent fantasy adventure film starring Douglas Fairbanks, celebrated for its lavish special effects, grand set design, and influential swashbuckling style.
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B.
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper is a historical novel by Mark Twain that tells the story of two boys—one a prince and the other a poor commoner—who swap identities in 16th-century England to explore themes of class and social justice.
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C.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
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D.
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso was a 19th-century German poet and naturalist best known for his literary works and botanical studies conducted during scientific expeditions.
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E.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an 1820 short story by Washington Irving that tells the eerie tale of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the legendary Headless Horseman in a haunted New York valley.
- 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: Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte Target entity description: Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte is a classic German novella about a man who sells his shadow to the Devil, exploring themes of identity, alienation, and the cost of worldly gain.
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A.
The Jewish Bride
The Jewish Bride is a renowned 17th-century oil painting by Rembrandt, celebrated for its intimate portrayal of a couple and its rich, expressive use of color and light.
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B.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a satirical novel that transports a 19th-century American engineer back to King Arthur’s Britain, where he uses modern knowledge to challenge medieval society and romanticized chivalry.
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C.
The Thief of Bagdad
The Thief of Bagdad is a landmark 1924 silent fantasy adventure film starring Douglas Fairbanks, celebrated for its lavish special effects, grand set design, and influential swashbuckling style.
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D.
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper is a historical novel by Mark Twain that tells the story of two boys—one a prince and the other a poor commoner—who swap identities in 16th-century England to explore themes of class and social justice.
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E.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ |
| author | Adelbert von Chamisso ⓘ |
| centralMotif |
pact with the Devil
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sale of a shadow ⓘ |
| character |
Peter Schlemihl
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the Devil ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| genre |
fantastic literature
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novella ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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opera adaptations ⓘ stage adaptations ⓘ |
| influenced | later fantastic literature about identity ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general readership ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | classic of German literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Peter Schlemihl ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | frame narrative as a letter ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
allegorical treatment of social status
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motif of a man without a shadow ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| setting |
19th-century Europe
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urban environments ⓘ |
| symbol |
Devil as tempter
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seven-league boots ⓘ shadow ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
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cost of worldly gain ⓘ identity ⓘ individual versus society ⓘ materialism ⓘ social exclusion ⓘ |
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: Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte Description of subject: Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte is a classic German novella about a man who sells his shadow to the Devil, exploring themes of identity, alienation, and the cost of worldly gain.
Referenced by (3)
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