Gottfried Wolfgang
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Gottfried Wolfgang is the troubled German student protagonist of Washington Irving’s Gothic short story “The Adventure of the German Student,” whose eerie romantic encounter in Revolutionary Paris leads to a macabre revelation.
All labels observed (1)
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| Gottfried Wolfgang canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Gottfried Wolfgang Context triple: [The Adventure of the German Student, mainCharacter, Gottfried Wolfgang]
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was an influential 18th-century German composer and keyboardist, a leading figure of the empfindsamer Stil and a key bridge between the Baroque and Classical eras.
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach was an 18th-century German composer and harpsichordist, known as one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s musically gifted sons and often called the “Bückeburg Bach” for his long service at the court of Bückeburg.
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Johann Christian Bach
Johann Christian Bach was an 18th-century German composer, known as the "London Bach," who helped shape the early Classical style and significantly influenced the young Mozart.
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was an 18th-century German composer and organist, noted for his expressive, often improvisatory style and regarded as the most gifted but least conventionally successful son of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Carl Friedrich Abel
Carl Friedrich Abel was an 18th-century German composer and virtuoso viola da gamba player who became a prominent figure in the London music scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Gottfried Wolfgang Target entity description: Gottfried Wolfgang is the troubled German student protagonist of Washington Irving’s Gothic short story “The Adventure of the German Student,” whose eerie romantic encounter in Revolutionary Paris leads to a macabre revelation.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was an influential 18th-century German composer and keyboardist, a leading figure of the empfindsamer Stil and a key bridge between the Baroque and Classical eras.
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach was an 18th-century German composer and harpsichordist, known as one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s musically gifted sons and often called the “Bückeburg Bach” for his long service at the court of Bückeburg.
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Johann Christian Bach
Johann Christian Bach was an 18th-century German composer, known as the "London Bach," who helped shape the early Classical style and significantly influenced the young Mozart.
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was an 18th-century German composer and organist, noted for his expressive, often improvisatory style and regarded as the most gifted but least conventionally successful son of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Carl Friedrich Abel
Carl Friedrich Abel was an 18th-century German composer and virtuoso viola da gamba player who became a prominent figure in the London music scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ short story protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Adventure of the German Student ⓘ |
| associatedObject | guillotine ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
Gothic horror
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madness ⓘ romantic obsession ⓘ supernatural ambiguity ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
imaginative
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melancholic ⓘ morbidly romantic ⓘ solitary ⓘ |
| creator | Washington Irving ⓘ |
| encounters | apparently supernatural phenomena in Revolutionary Paris ⓘ |
| familyName | Wolfgang ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Adventure of the German Student ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
German philosophy
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metaphysics ⓘ mysticism ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | Tales of a Traveller ⓘ |
| genreContext | Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Gottfried ⓘ |
| hasBackstoryEvent |
became absorbed in visionary and mystical writings
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studied in Germany before traveling to Paris ⓘ suffered from disordered imagination ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | mysterious young woman executed by guillotine ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| mentalState |
prone to hallucinations
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troubled ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | unreliable focal character ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
discovers the woman dead beside him in the morning
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learns that the woman had been executed the previous day ⓘ meets a mysterious young woman near the guillotine in Paris ⓘ spends the night with the mysterious woman in his lodgings ⓘ |
| occupation | student ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Tales of a Traveller
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surface form:
Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving
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| settingOfActivity |
Paris
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Reign of Terror ⓘ |
| symbolicallyRepresents |
the collision of reason and superstition
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the dangers of unrestrained imagination ⓘ |
| timePeriod | French Revolution ⓘ |
| ultimateFate | confined to a madhouse ⓘ |
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Subject: Gottfried Wolfgang Description of subject: Gottfried Wolfgang is the troubled German student protagonist of Washington Irving’s Gothic short story “The Adventure of the German Student,” whose eerie romantic encounter in Revolutionary Paris leads to a macabre revelation.
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