The Snow Queen
E173077
The Snow Queen is an 1844 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a powerful, cold-hearted queen and the perilous journey of a young girl to rescue her friend from the queen’s icy realm.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Snow Queen canonical | 4 |
| Snow Queen | 2 |
| The Snow Queen (1957 film) | 1 |
| The Snow Queen (loosely inspired) | 1 |
| The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1518464 — 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 Snow Queen Context triple: [Frozen, basedOn, The Snow Queen]
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A.
The Enchanted Wood
The Enchanted Wood is a children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton that introduces a magical forest filled with talking trees, strange folk, and a towering tree leading to ever-changing magical lands.
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B.
Rumpelteazer
Rumpelteazer is a mischievous and thieving cat character from T. S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," later popularized in the musical "Cats."
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C.
Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales is a collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores moral and psychological themes through allegorical and Gothic narratives.
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D.
The Brave Little Tailor
The Brave Little Tailor is a classic fairy tale, popularized by the Brothers Grimm and later adapted by Disney, about a clever tailor who uses his wits and exaggerated boasts to overcome seemingly impossible challenges.
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E.
The Enchanted Forest
The Enchanted Forest is a fairy tale–themed amusement park in New York that later expanded into the Enchanted Forest Water Safari.
- 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 Snow Queen Target entity description: The Snow Queen is an 1844 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a powerful, cold-hearted queen and the perilous journey of a young girl to rescue her friend from the queen’s icy realm.
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A.
The Enchanted Wood
The Enchanted Wood is a children's fantasy novel by Enid Blyton that introduces a magical forest filled with talking trees, strange folk, and a towering tree leading to ever-changing magical lands.
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B.
Rumpelteazer
Rumpelteazer is a mischievous and thieving cat character from T. S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," later popularized in the musical "Cats."
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C.
Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales is a collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores moral and psychological themes through allegorical and Gothic narratives.
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D.
The Brave Little Tailor
The Brave Little Tailor is a classic fairy tale, popularized by the Brothers Grimm and later adapted by Disney, about a clever tailor who uses his wits and exaggerated boasts to overcome seemingly impossible challenges.
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E.
The Enchanted Forest
The Enchanted Forest is a fairy tale–themed amusement park in New York that later expanded into the Enchanted Forest Water Safari.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fairy tale
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literary work ⓘ |
| author | Hans Christian Andersen ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
journey through seasons
ⓘ
magic mirror ⓘ shards of glass in the eye and heart ⓘ talking animals ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Denmark ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Finn woman
ⓘ
Gerda ⓘ Kai ⓘ Lapp woman ⓘ Little Robber Girl ⓘ Old Lady with the Garden ⓘ Prince ⓘ Princess ⓘ Reindeer ⓘ The Snow Queen self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Snow Queen
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| firstPublicationDate | 21 December 1844 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | New Fairy Tales ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | C.A. Reitzel ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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fairy tale ⓘ fantasy literature ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Snow Queen
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Snow Queen (1957 film)
The Snow Queen (1995 animated film) ⓘ The Snow Queen (1995 animated film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Snow Queen (2002 film)
The Snow Queen (2012 film) ⓘ |
| hasIllustrationTradition | various 19th- and 20th-century illustrators ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
Frozen
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Frozen II ⓘ The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ⓘ
surface form:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
|
| literaryPeriod | Romanticism ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist |
The Snow Queen
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Snow Queen
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| mainCharacter | Kai ⓘ |
| mainProtagonist | Gerda ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Danish ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A girl named Gerda undertakes a perilous journey to rescue her friend Kai from the Snow Queen's icy palace. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1844 ⓘ |
| setting | Scandinavia ⓘ |
| structure | seven stories ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| theme |
friendship
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good versus evil ⓘ innocence ⓘ love ⓘ perseverance ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Snow Queen Description of subject: The Snow Queen is an 1844 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a powerful, cold-hearted queen and the perilous journey of a young girl to rescue her friend from the queen’s icy realm.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Snow Queen
this entity surface form:
Snow Queen
this entity surface form:
The Snow Queen (1957 film)
this entity surface form:
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen