La viuda Ching, pirata
E622071
"La viuda Ching, pirata" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that fictionalizes the legendary Chinese pirate Ching Shih, blending historical anecdote with Borges’s characteristic ironic and fantastical style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La viuda Ching, pirata canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6827713 — 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: La viuda Ching, pirata Context triple: [Historia universal de la infamia, hasPart, La viuda Ching, pirata]
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A.
The Pirate Queen
The Pirate Queen is a stage musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg that dramatizes the life of 16th-century Irish chieftain and pirate Grace O’Malley.
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B.
Ching
Ching is the surname of Brian Ching, a retired American soccer player best known as a forward for the Houston Dynamo and the U.S. national team.
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C.
Pirate Jenny
Pirate Jenny is a vengeful maid and one of the most famous and haunting characters from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s musical drama *The Threepenny Opera*.
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D.
Lady Chen
Lady Chen was the mother of the Hongwu Emperor, founder of China’s Ming dynasty, and is remembered primarily for her role as the imperial matriarch of that ruling house.
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E.
The Black Pirate
The Black Pirate is a 1926 silent swashbuckler film starring Douglas Fairbanks, renowned for its pioneering use of early two-color Technicolor and acrobatic action sequences.
- 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: La viuda Ching, pirata Target entity description: "La viuda Ching, pirata" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that fictionalizes the legendary Chinese pirate Ching Shih, blending historical anecdote with Borges’s characteristic ironic and fantastical style.
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A.
The Pirate Queen
The Pirate Queen is a stage musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg that dramatizes the life of 16th-century Irish chieftain and pirate Grace O’Malley.
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B.
Ching
Ching is the surname of Brian Ching, a retired American soccer player best known as a forward for the Houston Dynamo and the U.S. national team.
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C.
Pirate Jenny
Pirate Jenny is a vengeful maid and one of the most famous and haunting characters from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s musical drama *The Threepenny Opera*.
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D.
Lady Chen
Lady Chen was the mother of the Hongwu Emperor, founder of China’s Ming dynasty, and is remembered primarily for her role as the imperial matriarch of that ruling house.
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E.
The Black Pirate
The Black Pirate is a 1926 silent swashbuckler film starring Douglas Fairbanks, renowned for its pioneering use of early two-color Technicolor and acrobatic action sequences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | Jorge Luis Borges ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ching Shih ⓘ |
| blends | historical anecdote and fantasy ⓘ |
| characterType | historical figure fictionalized ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Argentina ⓘ |
| features | Chinese maritime setting ⓘ |
| fictionalizes | life of Ching Shih ⓘ |
| genre |
fantastical fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fate
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legend versus history ⓘ myth-making ⓘ power ⓘ |
| hasTitleInEnglish | Widow Ching, Pirate ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | legend of Ching Shih ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Latin American literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
fantastical
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ironic ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Ching Shih ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | third-person narration ⓘ |
| portrays | a legendary female pirate ⓘ |
| settingLocation | China ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| subject |
Chinese pirates
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piracy ⓘ |
| usesDevice |
interplay of fact and fiction
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irony ⓘ |
| workLanguageVariant | Rioplatense Spanish ⓘ |
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Subject: La viuda Ching, pirata Description of subject: "La viuda Ching, pirata" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that fictionalizes the legendary Chinese pirate Ching Shih, blending historical anecdote with Borges’s characteristic ironic and fantastical style.
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