Walter Faber
E417006
Walter Faber is the rational, technocratic engineer whose emotionally detached worldview is shattered by tragic events in Max Frisch’s novel "Homo Faber."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Faber canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4160875 — 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: Walter Faber Context triple: [Homo Faber, mainCharacter, Walter Faber]
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A.
Geoffrey Crayon
Geoffrey Crayon is the fictional narrator and persona created by Washington Irving, best known for presenting tales such as those in "The Sketch Book," including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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B.
George Faber
George Faber is a British television and film producer known for his work on acclaimed dramas and biographical films.
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C.
Rupert Psmith
Rupert Psmith is a witty, impeccably dressed, and verbally flamboyant young Englishman who stars in several humorous P. G. Wodehouse stories.
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D.
Albert Narracott
Albert Narracott is the young English farm boy whose deep bond with his horse Joey drives the emotional core of Michael Morpurgo’s World War I novel "War Horse."
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E.
Harold Crick
Harold Crick is the meticulous IRS auditor and unsuspecting protagonist of the metafictional film "Stranger Than Fiction," whose life begins mirroring a narrated novel.
- 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: Walter Faber Target entity description: Walter Faber is the rational, technocratic engineer whose emotionally detached worldview is shattered by tragic events in Max Frisch’s novel "Homo Faber."
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A.
Geoffrey Crayon
Geoffrey Crayon is the fictional narrator and persona created by Washington Irving, best known for presenting tales such as those in "The Sketch Book," including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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B.
George Faber
George Faber is a British television and film producer known for his work on acclaimed dramas and biographical films.
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C.
Rupert Psmith
Rupert Psmith is a witty, impeccably dressed, and verbally flamboyant young Englishman who stars in several humorous P. G. Wodehouse stories.
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D.
Albert Narracott
Albert Narracott is the young English farm boy whose deep bond with his horse Joey drives the emotional core of Michael Morpurgo’s World War I novel "War Horse."
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E.
Harold Crick
Harold Crick is the meticulous IRS auditor and unsuspecting protagonist of the metafictional film "Stranger Than Fiction," whose life begins mirroring a narrated novel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Homo Faber ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
modernity
ⓘ
postwar Europe ⓘ |
| characterTrait | emotionally detached ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalActivity |
Greece
ⓘ
Guatemala ⓘ Italy ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Max Frisch ⓘ |
| createdInWorkLanguage | German ⓘ |
| experiences |
breakdown of rational certainties
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confrontation with chance ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Homo Faber
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surface form:
Homo Faber universe
|
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1957 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Homo Faber (1991 film character) ⓘ |
| includedInGenre |
existential novel
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psychological novel ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginalWork | German ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| moralArc | from detachment to painful self-awareness ⓘ |
| name | Walter Faber self-link ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | retrospective account ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| nationality | Swiss ⓘ |
| occupation | engineer ⓘ |
| plotFunction | embodiment of rationalist worldview ⓘ |
| relationship |
father of Sabeth
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lover of Hanna ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
belief in calculability of life
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limits of technological thinking ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
emotional repression
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existentialism ⓘ rationality versus fate ⓘ technology and humanity ⓘ |
| undergoes |
personal crisis
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tragic events ⓘ |
| worldview |
rational
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technocratic ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Walter Faber Description of subject: Walter Faber is the rational, technocratic engineer whose emotionally detached worldview is shattered by tragic events in Max Frisch’s novel "Homo Faber."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.