La vida es sueño
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La vida es sueño is a seminal 17th-century Spanish Golden Age play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca that explores free will, reality, and illusion through the story of a prince imprisoned from birth.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La vida es sueño canonical | 2 |
| Life Is a Dream | 1 |
| Que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1563297 — 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: La vida es sueño Context triple: [Spanish Renaissance, notableWork, La vida es sueño]
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A.
The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy is a seminal late 16th-century revenge tragedy by Thomas Kyd that profoundly influenced Elizabethan drama and paved the way for plays like Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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B.
The Tempest
The Tempest is a late Shakespearean play that blends shipwreck-driven adventure with themes of magic, power, and reconciliation on a remote island.
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C.
Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is a dark comedic play by William Shakespeare that explores themes of justice, morality, and hypocrisy in a corrupt Vienna.
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D.
Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Lost is a comedic play by William Shakespeare that satirizes courtly love and intellectual pretension through witty wordplay and romantic misadventures.
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E.
The Jew of Malta
The Jew of Malta is a darkly comic Elizabethan play by Christopher Marlowe that explores religious hypocrisy, greed, and revenge through the story of the wealthy Jewish merchant Barabas in Malta.
- 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: La vida es sueño Target entity description: La vida es sueño is a seminal 17th-century Spanish Golden Age play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca that explores free will, reality, and illusion through the story of a prince imprisoned from birth.
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A.
The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy is a seminal late 16th-century revenge tragedy by Thomas Kyd that profoundly influenced Elizabethan drama and paved the way for plays like Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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B.
The Tempest
The Tempest is a late Shakespearean play that blends shipwreck-driven adventure with themes of magic, power, and reconciliation on a remote island.
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C.
Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is a dark comedic play by William Shakespeare that explores themes of justice, morality, and hypocrisy in a corrupt Vienna.
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D.
Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Lost is a comedic play by William Shakespeare that satirizes courtly love and intellectual pretension through witty wordplay and romantic misadventures.
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E.
The Jew of Malta
The Jew of Malta is a darkly comic Elizabethan play by Christopher Marlowe that explores religious hypocrisy, greed, and revenge through the story of the wealthy Jewish merchant Barabas in Malta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spanish Golden Age play
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philosophical drama ⓘ play ⓘ |
| antagonist | Basilio ⓘ |
| author | Pedro Calderón de la Barca ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus |
key work of the Spanish Golden Age
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major work of Spanish literature ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| famousLine |
La vida es sueño
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son.
¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí. ¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión, una sombra, una ficción. ⓘ |
| firstPerformance | circa 1635 ⓘ |
| genre |
allegorical play
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drama ⓘ philosophical drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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opera adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ theatrical reinterpretations ⓘ |
| influenced |
European Baroque drama
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modern philosophical literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Baroque philosophy
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Catholic theology ⓘ |
| literaryForm | verse ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Baroque ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Astolfo
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Basilio ⓘ Clarín ⓘ Clotaldo ⓘ Estrella ⓘ Rosaura ⓘ Segismundo ⓘ |
| meter | Spanish Golden Age polymetric verse ⓘ |
| movement | Spanish Golden Age ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| plotSummary |
A prince, Segismundo, imprisoned from birth because of a prophecy, is tested by being brought to court in a drugged state to see how he will rule.
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After behaving tyrannically when briefly freed, Segismundo is returned to his prison and led to believe his experience was only a dream. ⓘ Rebels later free Segismundo, who chooses mercy and self‑control, accepting that life itself may be a dream. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Segismundo ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1635 ⓘ |
| setting |
Poland
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surface form:
Polonia
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| structure | three acts ⓘ |
| studiedIn | Hispanic literature curricula worldwide ⓘ |
| theme |
dream versus reality
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free will ⓘ honor ⓘ human nature ⓘ power and tyranny ⓘ predestination ⓘ reality and illusion ⓘ |
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Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son.
this entity surface form:
Life Is a Dream