Goethe's late works

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literary work corpus phase of an author's oeuvre

Goethe's late works comprise the mature literary creations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s final decades, marked by philosophical depth, formal experimentation, and a reflective engagement with art, nature, and human destiny.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Goethe's late works canonical	2
Goethe’s late lyrical work	1
late works of Goethe	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6907844 — 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: Goethe's late works
Context triple: [Elective Affinities, partOf, Goethe's late works]

A. The Life of Goethe
The Life of Goethe is a biographical study by George Henry Lewes that examines the life, works, and intellectual development of the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
B. Goethe; or, the Writer
"Goethe; or, the Writer" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an exemplary literary figure and explores his significance as a model of the modern writer.
C. Nouvelles conversations de Goethe avec Eckermann
Nouvelles conversations de Goethe avec Eckermann is a French work by Léon Blum in which he reflects on and reinterprets Johann Peter Eckermann’s famous conversations with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
D. Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust is a large-scale choral-orchestral work by Robert Schumann that sets key episodes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s dramatic poem "Faust" to music.
E. Hoffmann und Campe
Hoffmann und Campe is a historic German publishing house, best known for issuing major 19th-century literary works, including those of Heinrich Heine.
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: Goethe's late works
Target entity description: Goethe's late works comprise the mature literary creations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s final decades, marked by philosophical depth, formal experimentation, and a reflective engagement with art, nature, and human destiny.

A. The Life of Goethe
The Life of Goethe is a biographical study by George Henry Lewes that examines the life, works, and intellectual development of the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
B. Goethe; or, the Writer
"Goethe; or, the Writer" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an exemplary literary figure and explores his significance as a model of the modern writer.
C. Nouvelles conversations de Goethe avec Eckermann
Nouvelles conversations de Goethe avec Eckermann is a French work by Léon Blum in which he reflects on and reinterprets Johann Peter Eckermann’s famous conversations with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
D. Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust is a large-scale choral-orchestral work by Robert Schumann that sets key episodes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s dramatic poem "Faust" to music.
E. Hoffmann und Campe
Hoffmann und Campe is a historic German publishing house, best known for issuing major 19th-century literary works, including those of Heinrich Heine.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literary work corpus ⓘ phase of an author's oeuvre ⓘ
associatedWith	German literature ⓘ Romanticism ⓘ Weimar Classicism ⓘ
characteristic	formal experimentation ⓘ philosophical depth ⓘ reflective engagement with art ⓘ reflective engagement with human destiny ⓘ reflective engagement with nature ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Germany ⓘ
creator	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ⓘ
genre	aphorism ⓘ autobiography ⓘ drama ⓘ essay ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ novel ⓘ scientific treatise ⓘ
hasPart	Elective Affinities ⓘ Faust, Part Two ⓘ Italian Journey (revised editions and late shaping) ⓘ linked to: Italian Journey Maxims and Reflections (late aphorisms) ⓘ Poetry and Truth (later volumes) ⓘ linked to: "Poetry and Truth" Theory of Colours (late elaborations and polemics) ⓘ linked to: Theory of Colours West–östlicher Divan ⓘ Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years ⓘ late autobiographical fragments ⓘ late botanical writings ⓘ late essays on art and literature ⓘ late geological writings ⓘ late letters with literary character ⓘ late lyric poetry ⓘ late morphological writings ⓘ late scientific writings ⓘ
influenced	European modernism ⓘ comparative literature studies ⓘ literary modernist drama ⓘ modern German literature ⓘ
influencedBy	Christian and biblical traditions ⓘ Enlightenment thought ⓘ Islamic and Persian poetry ⓘ classical antiquity ⓘ scientific observation of nature ⓘ
language	German ⓘ
mainTheme	art as a mode of knowledge ⓘ fate and freedom ⓘ human relationship to nature ⓘ individual and world history ⓘ religious and intercultural dialogue ⓘ self-cultivation (Bildung) ⓘ
timePeriod	Goethe's final decades ⓘ early 19th century ⓘ

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Elective Affinities → partOf → Goethe's late works ⓘ

West–östlicher Divan → partOf → Goethe's late works ⓘ

Die Wahlverwandtschaften → partOfAuthorOeuvre → late works of Goethe ⓘ

linked to: Goethe's late works

Suleika → partOf → Goethe’s late lyrical work ⓘ