Oskar Matzerath
E621532
Oskar Matzerath is the unnervingly precocious, self-willed dwarf who narrates Günter Grass’s novel *The Tin Drum*, famous for his refusal to grow and his piercing scream that shatters glass.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oskar Matzerath canonical | 4 |
| Agnes Matzerath | 1 |
| Alfred Matzerath | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6827214 — 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: Oskar Matzerath Context triple: [The Tin Drum, mainCharacter, Oskar Matzerath]
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A.
Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger is a novella by Thomas Mann that explores the inner conflict of an artist torn between bourgeois respectability and bohemian creativity.
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B.
Oskar
Oskar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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C.
Hanns Sachs
Hanns Sachs was an Austrian psychoanalyst and close early follower of Sigmund Freud, known for his contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice.
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D.
Kurt Schlegel
Kurt Schlegel is a musician best known for his past role in the instrumental heavy metal band The Fucking Champs.
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E.
Helmut
Helmut is a masculine given name of German origin, historically common in German-speaking countries.
- 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: Oskar Matzerath Target entity description: Oskar Matzerath is the unnervingly precocious, self-willed dwarf who narrates Günter Grass’s novel *The Tin Drum*, famous for his refusal to grow and his piercing scream that shatters glass.
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A.
Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger is a novella by Thomas Mann that explores the inner conflict of an artist torn between bourgeois respectability and bohemian creativity.
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B.
Oskar
Oskar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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C.
Hanns Sachs
Hanns Sachs was an Austrian psychoanalyst and close early follower of Sigmund Freud, known for his contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice.
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D.
Kurt Schlegel
Kurt Schlegel is a musician best known for his past role in the instrumental heavy metal band The Fucking Champs.
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E.
Helmut
Helmut is a masculine given name of German origin, historically common in German-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ novel protagonist ⓘ |
| ageAtDecision | three years old ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Tin Drum ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm |
The Tin Drum (1979 film adaptation)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Tin Drum
|
| associatedWithObject | tin drum ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
childhood and adulthood boundary
ⓘ
memory and guilt ⓘ political responsibility ⓘ |
| birthplace |
Danzig
ⓘ
linked to:
Gdańsk
|
| createdBy | Günter Grass ⓘ |
| decision | stops growing at age three ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Danzig Trilogy
ⓘ
linked to:
Danzig Trilogy
|
| firstAppearance | The Tin Drum ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
emits piercing scream
ⓘ
shatters glass with scream ⓘ |
| hasBehavior | refuses to grow ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
dwarf
ⓘ
precocious ⓘ self-willed ⓘ unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| hasParent |
Agnes Matzerath
ⓘ
Alfred Matzerath ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
egocentric
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ironical ⓘ manipulative ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | German ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
magic realism
ⓘ
linked to:
magical realism
postmodern literature ⓘ |
| narratesFrom | mental institution ⓘ |
| narrativePerson | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| narratorOf | The Tin Drum ⓘ |
| nationality | German (fictional) ⓘ |
| obsessedWith | tin drum ⓘ |
| physicalCharacteristic | stunted growth ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | David Bennent ⓘ |
| possibleFather | Jan Bronski ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
German society under Nazism
ⓘ
moral complicity ⓘ refusal to conform ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
World War II
ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ postwar period ⓘ |
| usesObject | tin drum ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Oskar Matzerath Description of subject: Oskar Matzerath is the unnervingly precocious, self-willed dwarf who narrates Günter Grass’s novel *The Tin Drum*, famous for his refusal to grow and his piercing scream that shatters glass.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.