Mephisto
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Mephisto is a 1936 novel by Klaus Mann that satirically portrays an opportunistic actor’s moral corruption under Nazi Germany.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mephisto canonical | 12 |
| MEPHISTO | 1 |
| Mephisto (1981 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2029177 — 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: Mephisto Context triple: [Klaus Mann, notableWork, Mephisto]
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A.
Šatan
Šatan is a Slovak surname most famously borne by Miroslav Šatan, a prominent former professional ice hockey player and national team star.
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B.
Balthazar
Balthazar is a traditional variant of the name Belshazzar, historically associated with a Babylonian ruler mentioned in the Bible and later used in various cultural and literary contexts.
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C.
Modrow
Modrow is a German surname most notably associated with Hans Modrow, the last communist premier of East Germany.
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D.
Kazimierz Sabbat
Kazimierz Sabbat was a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister and later President of the Polish government-in-exile, symbolically upholding Poland’s pre-communist statehood during the Cold War.
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E.
Heike Makatsch
Heike Makatsch is a German actress and former television presenter known internationally for her roles in films such as "Love Actually" and "Resident Evil."
- 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: Mephisto Target entity description: Mephisto is a 1936 novel by Klaus Mann that satirically portrays an opportunistic actor’s moral corruption under Nazi Germany.
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A.
Šatan
Šatan is a Slovak surname most famously borne by Miroslav Šatan, a prominent former professional ice hockey player and national team star.
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B.
Balthazar
Balthazar is a traditional variant of the name Belshazzar, historically associated with a Babylonian ruler mentioned in the Bible and later used in various cultural and literary contexts.
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C.
Modrow
Modrow is a German surname most notably associated with Hans Modrow, the last communist premier of East Germany.
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D.
Kazimierz Sabbat
Kazimierz Sabbat was a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister and later President of the Polish government-in-exile, symbolically upholding Poland’s pre-communist statehood during the Cold War.
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E.
Heike Makatsch
Heike Makatsch is a German actress and former television presenter known internationally for her roles in films such as "Love Actually" and "Resident Evil."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptationAward |
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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surface form:
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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| adaptationCountry | Hungary ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector | István Szabó ⓘ |
| adaptationLanguage | Hungarian ⓘ |
| author | Klaus Mann ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | banned in West Germany for a period ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| criticalReception | considered a major work of German exile literature ⓘ |
| depicts | German theatre world under Nazism ⓘ |
| explores |
compromise of artistic integrity for power
ⓘ
personal responsibility under dictatorship ⓘ relationship between art and politics ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| genre |
political novel
ⓘ
roman à clef ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Mephisto
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mephisto (1981 film)
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| hasProtagonist | Hendrik Höfgen ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | named after the demon Mephistopheles from Faust ⓘ |
| legalIssue | subject of a landmark German court case on artistic freedom and personality rights ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Exile literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
collaboration with Nazism
ⓘ
moral corruption ⓘ opportunism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of artists’ complicity with totalitarian regimes
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satirical portrayal of Nazi-era cultural life ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| portrays | an opportunistic actor ⓘ |
| protagonistBasedOn | Gustaf Gründgens ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| publisher | Querido Verlag ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Turning Point (Klaus Mann memoir) ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | rise of an actor under the Nazi regime ⓘ |
| timeOfAction |
Weimar Republic
ⓘ
surface form:
Weimar Republic and early Nazi era
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| writtenBy | Klaus Mann ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mephisto Description of subject: Mephisto is a 1936 novel by Klaus Mann that satirically portrays an opportunistic actor’s moral corruption under Nazi Germany.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MEPHISTO
this entity surface form:
Mephisto (1981 film)