The Singing Bone
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The Singing Bone is a dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale in which the murder of a younger brother is revealed when his bones are fashioned into a musical instrument that sings of the crime.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Singing Bone canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9244183 — 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 Singing Bone Context triple: [Brothers Grimm fairy tales, includesWork, The Singing Bone]
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A.
To the Bone
To the Bone is a 2017 drama film about a young woman’s struggle with anorexia, written and directed by Marti Noxon and starring Lily Collins.
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B.
The Bones
"The Bones" is a hit country-pop song by American singer-songwriter Maren Morris, known for its metaphor-rich lyrics about the strength and resilience of a relationship.
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C.
Stone to the Bone
"Stone to the Bone" is a funk track by James Brown featured on his influential 1973 album *The Payback*.
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D.
Monkeybone
Monkeybone is a 2001 dark fantasy–comedy film that blends live action and animation in a surreal story about a cartoonist trapped in a bizarre dream world.
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E.
Writing Down the Bones
Writing Down the Bones is a widely influential book on writing practice that blends Zen Buddhist principles with practical exercises to help writers develop a free, disciplined, and authentic writing habit.
- 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 Singing Bone Target entity description: The Singing Bone is a dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale in which the murder of a younger brother is revealed when his bones are fashioned into a musical instrument that sings of the crime.
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A.
To the Bone
To the Bone is a 2017 drama film about a young woman’s struggle with anorexia, written and directed by Marti Noxon and starring Lily Collins.
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B.
The Bones
"The Bones" is a hit country-pop song by American singer-songwriter Maren Morris, known for its metaphor-rich lyrics about the strength and resilience of a relationship.
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C.
Stone to the Bone
"Stone to the Bone" is a funk track by James Brown featured on his influential 1973 album *The Payback*.
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D.
Monkeybone
Monkeybone is a 2001 dark fantasy–comedy film that blends live action and animation in a surreal story about a cartoonist trapped in a bizarre dream world.
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E.
Writing Down the Bones
Writing Down the Bones is a widely influential book on writing practice that blends Zen Buddhist principles with practical exercises to help writers develop a free, disciplined, and authentic writing habit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fairy tale
ⓘ
literary work ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | Der singende Knochen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Brothers Grimm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classification | Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 780 ⓘ |
| collection | Grimms' Fairy Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator |
Jacob Grimm
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wilhelm Grimm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
boar
ⓘ
king ⓘ older brother ⓘ younger brother ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Kinder- und Hausmärchen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fairy tale
ⓘ
fairy tale ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Singing Bone (literary retellings)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Singing Bone (operatic adaptations) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
envy
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fratricide ⓘ justice ⓘ murder revealed ⓘ |
| moral |
crime will eventually be revealed
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envy and greed lead to ruin ⓘ |
| motif |
murder revealed by a musical instrument
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reward for slaying a monster ⓘ singing bone ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf | German folklore ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An older brother murders his younger brother after they hunt a dangerous boar, and the crime is later revealed when the younger brother's bones are made into a musical instrument that sings of the murder. ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Singing Bone Description of subject: The Singing Bone is a dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale in which the murder of a younger brother is revealed when his bones are fashioned into a musical instrument that sings of the crime.
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