A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
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"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that exemplifies his minimalist style and explores themes of loneliness, meaning, and existential despair in a late-night café setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Clean, Well-Lighted Place canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9797516 — 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: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Context triple: [Hemingway iceberg theory, associatedWithWork, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place]
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A.
The Old Guitarist
The Old Guitarist is a famous Blue Period painting by Pablo Picasso depicting a gaunt, blind musician hunched over his guitar, known for its somber mood and monochromatic blue palette.
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B.
Hills Like White Elephants
"Hills Like White Elephants" is a renowned short story by Ernest Hemingway, noted for its minimalist dialogue and subtle exploration of a couple's tense conversation about an implied abortion.
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C.
Cronaca di una morte annunciata
Cronaca di una morte annunciata is an Italian-Colombian film adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," directed by Francesco Rosi.
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D.
The Ballad of the Sad Café
The Ballad of the Sad Café is a Southern Gothic novella by Carson McCullers that explores themes of unrequited love, isolation, and the complexities of human relationships in a small Georgia mill town.
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E.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1927 novel by Thornton Wilder that explores fate, faith, and human connection through the stories of five people who die in a bridge collapse in Peru.
- 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: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Target entity description: "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that exemplifies his minimalist style and explores themes of loneliness, meaning, and existential despair in a late-night café setting.
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A.
The Old Guitarist
The Old Guitarist is a famous Blue Period painting by Pablo Picasso depicting a gaunt, blind musician hunched over his guitar, known for its somber mood and monochromatic blue palette.
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B.
Hills Like White Elephants
"Hills Like White Elephants" is a renowned short story by Ernest Hemingway, noted for its minimalist dialogue and subtle exploration of a couple's tense conversation about an implied abortion.
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C.
Cronaca di una morte annunciata
Cronaca di una morte annunciata is an Italian-Colombian film adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," directed by Francesco Rosi.
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D.
The Ballad of the Sad Café
The Ballad of the Sad Café is a Southern Gothic novella by Carson McCullers that explores themes of unrequited love, isolation, and the complexities of human relationships in a small Georgia mill town.
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E.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1927 novel by Thornton Wilder that explores fate, faith, and human connection through the stories of five people who die in a bridge collapse in Peru.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Ernest Hemingway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionType | short story collection ⓘ |
| contains |
"nada" refrain
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parody of the Lord's Prayer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPublicationYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Scribner's Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist fiction
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short fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterTrait |
old man is deaf
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old man is wealthy ⓘ older waiter is empathetic ⓘ older waiter is insomniac ⓘ younger waiter is impatient ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
considered one of Hemingway's finest short stories
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widely anthologized ⓘ |
| hasEvent | old man's suicide attempt ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | existentialist literary criticism ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | clean well-lighted café as sanctuary ⓘ |
| includedIn | Winner Take Nothing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
old deaf man
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older waiter ⓘ younger waiter ⓘ |
| motif |
café as refuge
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light and darkness ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | third-person narration ⓘ |
| publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Spanish café ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimeOfDay | late night ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
American literature courses
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modernist literature courses ⓘ |
| style |
iceberg theory
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minimalist prose ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
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existential despair ⓘ isolation ⓘ loneliness ⓘ nothingness ⓘ search for meaning ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
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