Slaughterhouse-Five
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Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut’s darkly comic, anti-war science fiction novel that follows Billy Pilgrim’s disjointed experiences of World War II and time travel, widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century American literature.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Slaughterhouse-Five canonical | 3 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five (1972 film) | 1 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2569303 — 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: Slaughterhouse-Five Context triple: [Time 100 best English-language novels list, hasWork, Slaughterhouse-Five]
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A.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow is a dense, postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon that intertwines World War II-era espionage, science, and paranoia in a sprawling, experimental narrative.
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B.
Playing for Time
"Playing for Time" is a reflective, piano-driven song by Peter Gabriel that explores themes of aging, memory, and the passage of time.
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C.
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 satirical comedy-drama film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, featuring Lukas Haas among its ensemble cast.
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D.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" is the fourth comedic science fiction novel in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, following Arthur Dent's return to a mysteriously restored Earth and his romance with the enigmatic Fenchurch.
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E.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 is a short postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon that follows Oedipa Maas as she uncovers a possibly conspiratorial underground postal system, exploring themes of communication, entropy, and paranoia.
- 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: Slaughterhouse-Five Target entity description: Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut’s darkly comic, anti-war science fiction novel that follows Billy Pilgrim’s disjointed experiences of World War II and time travel, widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century American literature.
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A.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow is a dense, postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon that intertwines World War II-era espionage, science, and paranoia in a sprawling, experimental narrative.
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B.
Playing for Time
"Playing for Time" is a reflective, piano-driven song by Peter Gabriel that explores themes of aging, memory, and the passage of time.
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C.
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 satirical comedy-drama film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, featuring Lukas Haas among its ensemble cast.
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D.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" is the fourth comedic science fiction novel in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, following Arthur Dent's return to a mysteriously restored Earth and his romance with the enigmatic Fenchurch.
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E.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 is a short postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon that follows Oedipa Maas as she uncovers a possibly conspiratorial underground postal system, exploring themes of communication, entropy, and paranoia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti-war novel
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novel ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
Slaughterhouse-Five
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972 film)
Slaughterhouse-Five (stage adaptations) ⓘ |
| author | Kurt Vonnegut ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | frequently challenged book in the United States ⓘ |
| character |
Billy Pilgrim
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Edgar Derby ⓘ Kilgore Trout ⓘ Montana Wildhack ⓘ Roland Weary ⓘ Tralfamadorians ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| famousLine | So it goes. ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | George Roy Hill ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| genre |
metafiction
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postmodern literature ⓘ science fiction ⓘ war fiction ⓘ |
| hasAutobiographicalElements | true ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Kurt Vonnegut’s experience as a POW in Dresden ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | classic of 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective |
first-person frame narrator
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third-person limited ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
nonlinear narrative
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time travel ⓘ |
| notableEventDepicted |
bombing of Dresden
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surface form:
Bombing of Dresden in World War II
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| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Slaughterhouse-Five
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
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| placeInAuthorOeuvre | one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous works ⓘ |
| protagonist | Billy Pilgrim ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| publisher | Delacorte Press ⓘ |
| setting |
Dresden
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Germany ⓘ Ilion, New York ⓘ
surface form:
Ilium, New York
World War II ⓘ |
| structure | 10 chapters ⓘ |
| theme |
absurdity of war
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death ⓘ fatalism ⓘ free will and determinism ⓘ memory and time ⓘ trauma and PTSD ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Input
Subject: Slaughterhouse-Five Description of subject: Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut’s darkly comic, anti-war science fiction novel that follows Billy Pilgrim’s disjointed experiences of World War II and time travel, widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century American literature.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972 film)
this entity surface form:
Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death