Fiasco
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Fiasco is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning Hungarian author Imre Kertész that continues his exploration of totalitarianism, individual fate, and the absurdity of existence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fiasco canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2965980 — 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: Fiasco Context triple: [Imre Kertész, notableWork, Fiasco]
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Sabotage
"Sabotage" is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, featuring an ensemble cast led by Arnold Schwarzenegger as members of an elite DEA task force.
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Sabotage
Sabotage is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent," about a cinema owner secretly involved in a terrorist bombing plot in London.
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C.
This Ain't a Game
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D.
Figment
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Strife
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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: Fiasco Target entity description: Fiasco is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning Hungarian author Imre Kertész that continues his exploration of totalitarianism, individual fate, and the absurdity of existence.
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A.
Sabotage
"Sabotage" is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, featuring an ensemble cast led by Arnold Schwarzenegger as members of an elite DEA task force.
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B.
Sabotage
Sabotage is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent," about a cinema owner secretly involved in a terrorist bombing plot in London.
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C.
This Ain't a Game
"This Ain't a Game" is the second studio album by American R&B singer Ray J, showcasing his early-2000s blend of contemporary R&B and hip hop.
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D.
Figment
Figment is a small purple dragon from Disney's Epcot theme park, known as the playful embodiment of imagination in the Journey Into Imagination attraction.
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E.
Strife
Strife is a 1909 stage play by John Galsworthy that portrays a bitter industrial conflict between capital and labor, highlighting the human cost of class struggle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Imre Kertész ⓘ |
| awardConnection | related to Imre Kertész’s Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Hungary ⓘ |
| followedBy | Kaddish for an Unborn Child ⓘ |
| follows | Fatelessness ⓘ |
| genre |
novel
ⓘ
philosophical novel ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | Holocaust literature discourse ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryStyle |
autobiographical elements
ⓘ
existentialist tone ⓘ irony ⓘ metafiction ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
art under dictatorship
ⓘ
state censorship ⓘ writer-protagonist ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
Chinese
ⓘ
Czech ⓘ Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Polish ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
| literaryAnalysisFocus |
philosophical reflection on freedom and fate
ⓘ
representation of totalitarian systems ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Central European literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Holocaust studies
ⓘ
surface form:
Holocaust legacy
absurdity of existence ⓘ alienation ⓘ bureaucratic oppression ⓘ identity ⓘ individual fate ⓘ memory ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Hungarian ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Imre Kertész’s Holocaust trilogy
ⓘ
surface form:
Imre Kertész Holocaust trilogy
|
| publicationDate | 1988 ⓘ |
| publisher | Magvető Könyvkiadó ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Hungary ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | post-World War II era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Fiasco Description of subject: Fiasco is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning Hungarian author Imre Kertész that continues his exploration of totalitarianism, individual fate, and the absurdity of existence.
Referenced by (2)
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