Mystery-Bouffe
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Mystery-Bouffe is a revolutionary satirical play by Vladimir Mayakovsky that blends avant-garde theater with political allegory to celebrate the Bolshevik Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mystery-Bouffe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6019076 — 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: Mystery-Bouffe Context triple: [Vladimir Mayakovsky, notableWork, Mystery-Bouffe]
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A.
A Comedy of Murders
A Comedy of Murders is a comedic crime play by British writer Michael Chaplin that blends humor with a classic whodunit storyline.
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B.
The Comedy of Terrors
The Comedy of Terrors is a 1963 horror-comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur, featuring Basil Rathbone alongside Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in a macabre farce about an unscrupulous undertaker.
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C.
Peculiar Follies
Peculiar Follies is a section of Charles Mackay’s classic 1841 work "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," examining bizarre and irrational mass behaviors in history.
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D.
Mystère
Mystère is a long-running, acrobatic and theatrical resident show by Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas known for its surreal imagery and high-energy performances.
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E.
Harlequinade
Harlequinade is a one-act play by Terence Rattigan, often performed alongside *The Browning Version*, that offers a light, farcical backstage comedy contrasting with its companion piece’s serious tone.
- 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: Mystery-Bouffe Target entity description: Mystery-Bouffe is a revolutionary satirical play by Vladimir Mayakovsky that blends avant-garde theater with political allegory to celebrate the Bolshevik Revolution.
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A.
A Comedy of Murders
A Comedy of Murders is a comedic crime play by British writer Michael Chaplin that blends humor with a classic whodunit storyline.
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B.
The Comedy of Terrors
The Comedy of Terrors is a 1963 horror-comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur, featuring Basil Rathbone alongside Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in a macabre farce about an unscrupulous undertaker.
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C.
Peculiar Follies
Peculiar Follies is a section of Charles Mackay’s classic 1841 work "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," examining bizarre and irrational mass behaviors in history.
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D.
Mystère
Mystère is a long-running, acrobatic and theatrical resident show by Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas known for its surreal imagery and high-energy performances.
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E.
Harlequinade
Harlequinade is a one-act play by Terence Rattigan, often performed alongside *The Browning Version*, that offers a light, farcical backstage comedy contrasting with its companion piece’s serious tone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
play
ⓘ
revolutionary play ⓘ theatrical work ⓘ |
| author | Vladimir Mayakovsky ⓘ |
| commemorates |
October Revolution
ⓘ
linked to:
Russian Revolution
|
| commissionedFor | first anniversary of the October Revolution ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| directorOfFirstProduction | Vsevolod Meyerhold ⓘ |
| dramaticForm |
mass spectacle
ⓘ
mystery play parody ⓘ |
| featuresCharacters |
the Clean
ⓘ
the Unclean ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceCountry |
Soviet Russia
ⓘ
linked to:
Russian SFSR
|
| firstPerformanceDate | 7 November 1918 ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceLocation | Moscow ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceTheatre | Meyerhold Theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde theatre
ⓘ
political theatre ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | later Soviet stage revivals ⓘ |
| hasPublicationForm | printed play text ⓘ |
| historicalContext | early Soviet period ⓘ |
| ideology | communism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Marxism
ⓘ
Russian Futurist poetry ⓘ |
| languageRegister |
colloquial
ⓘ
propagandistic ⓘ |
| movement |
Futurism
ⓘ
Russian avant-garde ⓘ |
| notableFor | fusion of avant-garde aesthetics with Bolshevik propaganda ⓘ |
| notableProductionElement | constructivist stage design ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| parodies | religious mystery plays ⓘ |
| partOf | Soviet revolutionary culture ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | pro-Bolshevik ⓘ |
| setting | allegorical world divided into the Clean and the Unclean ⓘ |
| style |
expressionist
ⓘ
futurist ⓘ grotesque ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Bolshevik Revolution
ⓘ
linked to:
Russian Revolution
class struggle ⓘ political allegory ⓘ socialism ⓘ |
| theme |
creation of a new socialist world
ⓘ
destruction of the old world ⓘ triumph of the proletariat ⓘ |
| writer | Vladimir Mayakovsky ⓘ |
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