The Assault
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The Assault is a 1982 novel by Dutch author Harry Mulisch, later adapted into an Oscar-winning film, that explores the lasting psychological and moral impact of a traumatic event during World War II on a Dutch man’s life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Assault canonical | 9 |
| The Assault (novel) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7503789 — 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: The Assault Context triple: [Fons Rademakers, notableWork, The Assault]
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A.
L’Assaut
L’Assaut is a French film best known for featuring actress Rachida Brakni in a prominent role.
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B.
The Just Assassins
The Just Assassins is a 1949 play by Albert Camus that dramatizes the moral and political dilemmas of Russian revolutionaries debating the ethics of political violence.
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C.
Guardia de Asalto
The Guardia de Asalto was a Spanish Republican-era urban police and paramilitary force known for its role in maintaining public order and later fighting on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.
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D.
The Pillage
The Pillage is the 1998 debut solo studio album by Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Cappadonna, known for its gritty East Coast hip-hop sound and strong ties to the Wu-Tang collective.
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E.
Die by the Sword
Die by the Sword is a 1998 fantasy action-adventure video game known for its innovative, physics-based sword-fighting system that allowed precise control of weapon movements.
- 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: The Assault Target entity description: The Assault is a 1982 novel by Dutch author Harry Mulisch, later adapted into an Oscar-winning film, that explores the lasting psychological and moral impact of a traumatic event during World War II on a Dutch man’s life.
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A.
L’Assaut
L’Assaut is a French film best known for featuring actress Rachida Brakni in a prominent role.
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B.
The Just Assassins
The Just Assassins is a 1949 play by Albert Camus that dramatizes the moral and political dilemmas of Russian revolutionaries debating the ethics of political violence.
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C.
Guardia de Asalto
The Guardia de Asalto was a Spanish Republican-era urban police and paramilitary force known for its role in maintaining public order and later fighting on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.
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D.
The Pillage
The Pillage is the 1998 debut solo studio album by Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Cappadonna, known for its gritty East Coast hip-hop sound and strong ties to the Wu-Tang collective.
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E.
Die by the Sword
Die by the Sword is a 1998 fantasy action-adventure video game known for its innovative, physics-based sword-fighting system that allowed precise control of weapon movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptationAward | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ⓘ |
| adaptationAwardYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| adaptationCountryOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector | Fons Rademakers ⓘ |
| adaptationLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Assault (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Assault (1986 film)
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| author | Harry Mulisch ⓘ |
| awarded |
Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize
ⓘ
linked to:
F. Bordewijk-prijs
|
| countryOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| EnglishTitle | The Assault ⓘ |
| genre |
historical novel
ⓘ
psychological novel ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postwar Dutch literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Anton Steenwijk ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | lasting effects of a wartime incident on a Dutch man ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of the long-term effects of a single violent event
ⓘ
exploration of Dutch wartime guilt ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| publisher | De Bezige Bij ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Netherlands ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| settingCity | Haarlem ⓘ |
| structure | told in multiple postwar episodes ⓘ |
| theme |
guilt
ⓘ
memory ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ psychological impact of war ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| timeSpanCovered | from 1945 into the late 20th century ⓘ |
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: The Assault Description of subject: The Assault is a 1982 novel by Dutch author Harry Mulisch, later adapted into an Oscar-winning film, that explores the lasting psychological and moral impact of a traumatic event during World War II on a Dutch man’s life.
Referenced by (11)
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