Die Kinder der Toten
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Die Kinder der Toten is a sprawling, experimental horror-epic novel by Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek that confronts Austria’s repressed Nazi past through grotesque, postmodern storytelling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Die Kinder der Toten canonical | 2 |
| Die Kinder der Toten (2017 film project) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861916 — 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: Die Kinder der Toten Context triple: [Elfriede Jelinek, notableWork, Die Kinder der Toten]
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A.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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B.
The Dead and the Living
The Dead and the Living is a critically acclaimed poetry collection by Sharon Olds that explores themes of family, violence, and mortality in vivid, confessional verse.
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C.
Forest of the Dead
"Forest of the Dead" is a 2008 Doctor Who television episode, written by Steven Moffat, that concludes the two-part story introducing River Song and features the Tenth Doctor confronting the shadow-dwelling Vashta Nerada in a virtual reality library.
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D.
Born with the Dead
"Born with the Dead" is a celebrated science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of love, loss, and resurrection in a future where the dead can be technologically revived.
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E.
D’entre les morts
D’entre les morts is a 1954 French crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac that served as the literary basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo.
- 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: Die Kinder der Toten Target entity description: Die Kinder der Toten is a sprawling, experimental horror-epic novel by Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek that confronts Austria’s repressed Nazi past through grotesque, postmodern storytelling.
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A.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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B.
The Dead and the Living
The Dead and the Living is a critically acclaimed poetry collection by Sharon Olds that explores themes of family, violence, and mortality in vivid, confessional verse.
-
C.
Forest of the Dead
"Forest of the Dead" is a 2008 Doctor Who television episode, written by Steven Moffat, that concludes the two-part story introducing River Song and features the Tenth Doctor confronting the shadow-dwelling Vashta Nerada in a virtual reality library.
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D.
Born with the Dead
"Born with the Dead" is a celebrated science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of love, loss, and resurrection in a future where the dead can be technologically revived.
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E.
D’entre les morts
D’entre les morts is a 1954 French crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac that served as the literary basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental literature
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horror novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector |
Kelly Copper
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Pavol Liska ⓘ |
| adaptationType | film ⓘ |
| addresses |
Austrian complicity in Nazism
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suppression of historical guilt ⓘ |
| author | Elfriede Jelinek ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental fiction
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horror ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Die Kinder der Toten (2017 film project)
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linked to:
Die Kinder der Toten
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| hasCharacter |
Edgar
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Gerti ⓘ Gudrun Bichler ⓘ Karin Frenzel ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Austrian postwar history
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Holocaust literature ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Austria's repressed Nazi past
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Austrian national identity ⓘ Holocaust memory ⓘ guilt and repression ⓘ haunting and the undead ⓘ |
| motif |
apocalypse
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nature catastrophe ⓘ resurrected dead ⓘ zombies ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
fragmented
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polyphonic ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
grotesque imagery
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intertextuality ⓘ metafiction ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex narrative structure
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linguistic excess ⓘ radical formal experimentation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| pageCount | over 600 ⓘ |
| partTitle |
Die Kinder
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Die Kinder der Toten ⓘ Die Toten ⓘ
linked to:
Office of the Dead
|
| publicationYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| publisher | Rowohlt Verlag ⓘ |
| setting |
Austrian Alps
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Styria ⓘ |
| structure | three-part novel ⓘ |
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Subject: Die Kinder der Toten Description of subject: Die Kinder der Toten is a sprawling, experimental horror-epic novel by Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek that confronts Austria’s repressed Nazi past through grotesque, postmodern storytelling.
Referenced by (3)
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linked to: Die Kinder der Toten