Mother Courage and Her Children
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Mother Courage and Her Children is a landmark anti-war play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a canteen woman profiting from and ultimately devastated by the Thirty Years' War.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1347999 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mother Courage and Her Children Context triple: [Bertolt Brecht, notableWork, Mother Courage and Her Children]
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A.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front is a 2022 German anti-war film, adapted from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, that portrays the harrowing experiences of German soldiers during World War I.
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B.
Hunger Winter
The Hunger Winter was a severe famine that struck the occupied Netherlands during the final months of World War II, causing widespread starvation and hardship among the civilian population.
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C.
The Seamstress
The Seamstress is a painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Édouard Vuillard, known for its intimate domestic interior and subtle, decorative use of color and pattern.
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D.
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann that chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family across several generations and helped establish him as a major figure in modern literature.
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E.
War Horse
War Horse is a 2011 war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows the journey of a horse and his young owner through the hardships of World War I.
- 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: Mother Courage and Her Children Target entity description: Mother Courage and Her Children is a landmark anti-war play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a canteen woman profiting from and ultimately devastated by the Thirty Years' War.
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A.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front is a 2022 German anti-war film, adapted from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, that portrays the harrowing experiences of German soldiers during World War I.
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B.
Hunger Winter
The Hunger Winter was a severe famine that struck the occupied Netherlands during the final months of World War II, causing widespread starvation and hardship among the civilian population.
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C.
The Seamstress
The Seamstress is a painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Édouard Vuillard, known for its intimate domestic interior and subtle, decorative use of color and pattern.
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D.
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann that chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family across several generations and helped establish him as a major figure in modern literature.
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E.
War Horse
War Horse is a 2011 war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows the journey of a horse and his young owner through the hardships of World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epic theatre work
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play ⓘ |
| author | Bertolt Brecht ⓘ |
| countryOfFirstPerformance | Switzerland ⓘ |
| criticalReputation |
landmark of 20th-century theatre
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one of Brecht's most important plays ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | chronicle play ⓘ |
| dramaticTechnique |
Verfremdungseffekt
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episodic structure ⓘ projected titles ⓘ songs ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1941-01-19 ⓘ |
| firstPerformancePlace |
Zurich
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surface form:
Zürich
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| firstPerformanceTheatre | Schauspielhaus Zürich ⓘ |
| genre |
anti-war play
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epic theatre ⓘ |
| historicalContext | written during the rise of fascism in Europe ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
World War II
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surface form:
Second World War
Thirty Years' War ⓘ |
| languageFeature | use of songs as commentary ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Chaplain
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Cook ⓘ Eilif ⓘ Kattrin ⓘ Mother Courage and Her Children self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mother Courage
Swiss Cheese ⓘ |
| notableActorInRoleOfMotherCourage | Helene Weigel ⓘ |
| notableDirector | Bertolt Brecht ⓘ |
| notableProduction | 1949 Berliner Ensemble production ⓘ |
| numberOfActs | 12 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Mother Courage and Her Children
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
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| partOf | Brecht's epic theatre canon ⓘ |
| placeOfWriting |
Finland
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Sweden ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Thirty Years' War ⓘ |
| structureFeature | each scene can stand alone ⓘ |
| subject |
family
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morality in wartime ⓘ survival ⓘ war ⓘ |
| subtitle | A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War ⓘ |
| theme |
capitalism and conflict
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critique of war profiteering ⓘ maternal sacrifice ⓘ the cost of war on civilians ⓘ |
| writtenInExile | true ⓘ |
| yearOfCompletion | 1939 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mother Courage and Her Children Description of subject: Mother Courage and Her Children is a landmark anti-war play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a canteen woman profiting from and ultimately devastated by the Thirty Years' War.
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Translation of Mother Courage and Her Children
Mother Courage and Her Children
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Mother Courage and Her Children
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Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
Mother Courage and Her Children
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Mother Courage and Her Children
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Mother Courage
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Mother Courage and Her Children (productions)
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Mother Courage and Her Children (stage role)
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Mother Courage
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Mother Courage in "Mother Courage and Her Children"
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"Mother Courage and Her Children"