Erika Kohut
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Erika Kohut is a repressed, emotionally tormented Vienna piano teacher whose sadomasochistic desires and destructive relationship with her mother drive the psychological drama of Elfriede Jelinek’s novel "The Piano Teacher."
All labels observed (1)
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| Erika Kohut canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19755654 — 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: Erika Kohut Context triple: [The Piano Teacher, protagonist, Erika Kohut]
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A.
Alexander Kohut
Alexander Kohut was a 19th-century Hungarian-American rabbi and scholar renowned for his monumental Talmudic lexicon and leadership in modern Jewish scholarship.
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Bruno Bettelheim
Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American psychologist and writer known for his work on child psychology, autism, and the psychological impact of extreme trauma, including his own experiences in Nazi concentration camps.
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C.
Isaak Spielrein
Isaak Spielrein was the brother of Russian-Jewish psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein, belonging to the same intellectual family background in early 20th-century Russia.
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D.
Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein was an influential Austrian-British psychoanalyst known for pioneering child analysis and developing object relations theory within psychoanalysis.
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E.
Otto Rank
Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst and close collaborator of Sigmund Freud who became known for his innovative theories on creativity, the will, and the psychological impact of birth trauma.
- 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: Erika Kohut Target entity description: Erika Kohut is a repressed, emotionally tormented Vienna piano teacher whose sadomasochistic desires and destructive relationship with her mother drive the psychological drama of Elfriede Jelinek’s novel "The Piano Teacher."
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A.
Alexander Kohut
Alexander Kohut was a 19th-century Hungarian-American rabbi and scholar renowned for his monumental Talmudic lexicon and leadership in modern Jewish scholarship.
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B.
Bruno Bettelheim
Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American psychologist and writer known for his work on child psychology, autism, and the psychological impact of extreme trauma, including his own experiences in Nazi concentration camps.
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C.
Isaak Spielrein
Isaak Spielrein was the brother of Russian-Jewish psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein, belonging to the same intellectual family background in early 20th-century Russia.
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D.
Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein was an influential Austrian-British psychoanalyst known for pioneering child analysis and developing object relations theory within psychoanalysis.
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E.
Otto Rank
Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst and close collaborator of Sigmund Freud who became known for his innovative theories on creativity, the will, and the psychological impact of birth trauma.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.