The Student of Salamanca (story)
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"The Student of Salamanca" is a short story by Washington Irving, included in his collection *Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists*, that blends romance, mystery, and Spanish local color.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Student of Salamanca (story) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4190764 — 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: The Student of Salamanca (story) Context triple: [Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists, hasPart, The Student of Salamanca (story)]
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A.
Discourses on Davila
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B.
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C.
Compromiso de Caspe
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D.
Captain from Castile
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E.
El jardín de los frailes
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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: The Student of Salamanca (story) Target entity description: "The Student of Salamanca" is a short story by Washington Irving, included in his collection *Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists*, that blends romance, mystery, and Spanish local color.
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A.
Discourses on Davila
Discourses on Davila is a series of political essays by John Adams analyzing the causes of social and political instability, particularly in the context of the French Revolution and republican government.
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B.
The Spanish Jew's Tale
"The Spanish Jew's Tale" is one of the narrative poems within Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's collection *Tales of a Wayside Inn*, presenting a story told by the character known as the Spanish Jew.
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C.
The Inquisitor
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D.
Compromiso de Caspe
Compromiso de Caspe is the 1412 dynastic agreement that resolved the Aragonese succession crisis by selecting Ferdinand of Trastámara as king of the Crown of Aragon.
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E.
Captain from Castile
Captain from Castile is a 1947 historical adventure film set during the Spanish Inquisition and Hernán Cortés’s conquest of Mexico, starring Tyrone Power in one of his signature swashbuckling roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Washington Irving ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstPublishedIn | Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery fiction
ⓘ
romantic fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasCulturalElement |
Spanish customs
ⓘ
Spanish folklore ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryStyle |
Gothic elements
ⓘ
romantic narrative ⓘ |
| hasSettingType | urban setting ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Spanish local color
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| partOf | Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Spain ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Salamanca ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: The Student of Salamanca (story) Description of subject: "The Student of Salamanca" is a short story by Washington Irving, included in his collection *Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists*, that blends romance, mystery, and Spanish local color.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.