Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane
E113630
"Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane" is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, included in his collection "Strange Pilgrims," that blends magical realism with themes of solitude and dislocation during air travel.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| El avión de la bella durmiente | 1 |
| Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T965975 — 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: Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane Context triple: [Strange Pilgrims, hasPart, Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane]
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A.
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty is a classic 1959 animated fantasy film from Disney, renowned for its stylized art, iconic villain Maleficent, and the story of Princess Aurora cursed into a magical sleep.
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B.
Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress is a 1959 Broadway musical comedy, a spoof of "The Princess and the Pea," that helped launch Carol Burnett to stardom.
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C.
Le Rêve
Le Rêve is a 1888 novel by Émile Zola that departs from his usual gritty naturalism to tell a more lyrical, dreamlike story of a young orphan girl’s idealized love and religious devotion.
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D.
The Sleeping Prince
The Sleeping Prince is a 1953 romantic comedy play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan, best known today as the stage work later adapted into the film "The Prince and the Showgirl" starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier.
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E.
Some Enchanted Evening
Some Enchanted Evening is a classic romantic ballad from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific," renowned as one of Richard Rodgers' most famous and enduring songs.
- 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: Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane Target entity description: "Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane" is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, included in his collection "Strange Pilgrims," that blends magical realism with themes of solitude and dislocation during air travel.
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A.
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty is a classic 1959 animated fantasy film from Disney, renowned for its stylized art, iconic villain Maleficent, and the story of Princess Aurora cursed into a magical sleep.
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B.
Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress is a 1959 Broadway musical comedy, a spoof of "The Princess and the Pea," that helped launch Carol Burnett to stardom.
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C.
Le Rêve
Le Rêve is a 1888 novel by Émile Zola that departs from his usual gritty naturalism to tell a more lyrical, dreamlike story of a young orphan girl’s idealized love and religious devotion.
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D.
The Sleeping Prince
The Sleeping Prince is a 1953 romantic comedy play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan, best known today as the stage work later adapted into the film "The Prince and the Showgirl" starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier.
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E.
Some Enchanted Evening
Some Enchanted Evening is a classic romantic ballad from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific," renowned as one of Richard Rodgers' most famous and enduring songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ |
| collection | Strange Pilgrims ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Colombia ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Gabriel García Márquez
ⓘ
surface form:
Gabriel García Márquez works
|
| firstPublicationForm | short story collection ⓘ |
| genre |
magical realism
ⓘ
short fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
male narrator
ⓘ
sleeping young woman ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRole |
narrator
ⓘ
title character ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
human isolation in modern travel
ⓘ
imagined intimacy with strangers ⓘ psychological interiority of the narrator ⓘ |
| includedIn | Spanish-language edition of Strange Pilgrims ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Latin American Boom ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
introspective
ⓘ
magical realist ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| motif |
gaze
ⓘ
sleep ⓘ voyage ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| partOf | Strange Pilgrims ⓘ |
| setting |
commercial airplane
ⓘ
transatlantic flight ⓘ |
| theme |
air travel
ⓘ
dislocation ⓘ fantasy versus reality ⓘ obsession ⓘ solitude ⓘ |
| titleAlludesTo | Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| workInAuthorPeriod | late career of Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane Description of subject: "Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane" is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, included in his collection "Strange Pilgrims," that blends magical realism with themes of solitude and dislocation during air travel.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
El avión de la bella durmiente