The Appointment
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"The Appointment" is a bleak, introspective novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Herta Müller that portrays life under Romania’s communist dictatorship through the eyes of a woman repeatedly summoned by the secret police.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Appointment canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7908122 — 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 Appointment Context triple: [Herta Müller, notableWork, The Appointment]
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A.
The Assistant
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B.
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C.
The Old Lady
The Old Lady is a recurring comic character from Fontaine Fox’s early 20th-century newspaper strip "Toonerville Folks," known for embodying the quaint, humorous charm of small-town life.
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D.
The Night Clerk
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E.
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
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- 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 Appointment Target entity description: "The Appointment" is a bleak, introspective novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Herta Müller that portrays life under Romania’s communist dictatorship through the eyes of a woman repeatedly summoned by the secret police.
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A.
The Assistant
The Assistant is a 1957 novel by Bernard Malamud that explores themes of guilt, redemption, and immigrant life in mid-20th-century America through the relationship between a Jewish shopkeeper and his troubled assistant.
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B.
The Proposal
The Proposal is a 2009 romantic comedy film starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds about a demanding book editor who forces her assistant into a fake engagement to avoid deportation.
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C.
The Old Lady
The Old Lady is a recurring comic character from Fontaine Fox’s early 20th-century newspaper strip "Toonerville Folks," known for embodying the quaint, humorous charm of small-town life.
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D.
The Night Clerk
The Night Clerk is a 2020 crime drama thriller film about a socially awkward hotel clerk who becomes entangled in a murder investigation after secretly recording guests.
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E.
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell is a 1968 American-Italian comedy film about a woman in an Italian village who has convinced three former World War II soldiers that each is the father of her daughter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Herta Müller ⓘ |
| awardedAuthor | Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
fear and paranoia
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individual vs. totalitarian state ⓘ oppression under dictatorship ⓘ political repression ⓘ state surveillance ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1997 ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
novel ⓘ political fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
alienation
ⓘ
bureaucratic violence ⓘ memory and recollection ⓘ repeated summons ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeMode | stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistGender | female ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
everyday life in totalitarian regimes
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life under communist dictatorship ⓘ secret police interrogations ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
gender and power
ⓘ
loss of autonomy ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ surveillance society ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
bleak
ⓘ
introspective ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | unnamed female narrator ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet ⓘ |
| plotElement | woman repeatedly summoned by secret police ⓘ |
| publisher | Rowohlt Verlag ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
The Hunger Angel
ⓘ
The Land of Green Plums ⓘ |
| setting | Romania ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Communist era in Romania
ⓘ
linked to:
Romanian People’s Republic
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| translatedTitle | The Appointment ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Appointment Description of subject: "The Appointment" is a bleak, introspective novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Herta Müller that portrays life under Romania’s communist dictatorship through the eyes of a woman repeatedly summoned by the secret police.
Referenced by (5)
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