Don Quixote
E441186
Don Quixote is a tone poem by Richard Strauss that musically depicts the adventures and delusions of Cervantes’ iconic knight-errant through a series of symphonic variations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Quixote canonical | 13 |
| Don Quichotte | 1 |
| adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4471065 — 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: Don Quixote Context triple: [Richard Strauss, notableWork, Don Quixote]
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A.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a classic Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes that follows the misadventures of an idealistic would-be knight and his squire as they pursue chivalric fantasies in a prosaic world.
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B.
Fuente del Quijote
Fuente del Quijote is a fountain in Mexico City’s historic Alameda Central park that features imagery inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ iconic character Don Quixote.
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C.
Lazarillo de Tormes
Lazarillo de Tormes is a seminal anonymous Spanish novella that inaugurated the picaresque genre by depicting the misadventures of a low-born rogue navigating a corrupt society.
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D.
La Mancha
La Mancha is a historic, arid region in central Spain best known as the home of Cervantes’ fictional knight-errant Don Quixote.
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E.
The Adventures of Don Juan
The Adventures of Don Juan is a 1948 swashbuckling adventure film starring Errol Flynn as the legendary womanizing swordsman Don Juan.
- 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: Don Quixote Target entity description: Don Quixote is a tone poem by Richard Strauss that musically depicts the adventures and delusions of Cervantes’ iconic knight-errant through a series of symphonic variations.
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A.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a classic Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes that follows the misadventures of an idealistic would-be knight and his squire as they pursue chivalric fantasies in a prosaic world.
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B.
Fuente del Quijote
Fuente del Quijote is a fountain in Mexico City’s historic Alameda Central park that features imagery inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ iconic character Don Quixote.
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C.
Lazarillo de Tormes
Lazarillo de Tormes is a seminal anonymous Spanish novella that inaugurated the picaresque genre by depicting the misadventures of a low-born rogue navigating a corrupt society.
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D.
La Mancha
La Mancha is a historic, arid region in central Spain best known as the home of Cervantes’ fictional knight-errant Don Quixote.
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E.
The Adventures of Don Juan
The Adventures of Don Juan is a 1948 swashbuckling adventure film starring Errol Flynn as the legendary womanizing swordsman Don Juan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
orchestral work
ⓘ
tone poem ⓘ |
| basedOn | Don Quixote (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Miguel de Cervantes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogueNumber | TrV 184 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Richard Strauss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composerNationality | German ⓘ |
| countryOfPremiere | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfPremiere | 1898-03-08 ⓘ |
| depictsCharacter |
Don Quixote
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sancho Panza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Joseph Aibl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
program music
ⓘ
symphonic poem ⓘ |
| hasFinale | yes ⓘ |
| hasIntroduction | yes ⓘ |
| instrumentRepresentingDonQuixote | solo cello ⓘ |
| instrumentRepresentingSanchoPanza |
bass clarinet
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tenor tuba ⓘ |
| key | E-flat major ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Spanish ⓘ |
| movementType |
finale
ⓘ
theme ⓘ variation ⓘ |
| musicalDepictionOf |
Don Quixote’s defeat
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Don Quixote’s vigil NERFINISHED ⓘ flock of sheep ⓘ penitents procession ⓘ windmills ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
continuous symphonic variations
ⓘ
use of solo cello as protagonist ⓘ |
| numberOfVariations | 10 ⓘ |
| opusNumber | Op. 35 ⓘ |
| orchestration | large orchestra ⓘ |
| period | late Romantic ⓘ |
| placeOfPremiere | Cologne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereConductor | Franz Wüllner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereOrchestra | Gürzenich Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByComposer |
Also sprach Zarathustra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | theme and variations ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
adventures of a knight-errant
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delusions of Don Quixote ⓘ |
| title | Don Quixote NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalDuration | 40–45 minutes ⓘ |
| yearComposed | 1897 ⓘ |
| yearPremiered | 1898 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Don Quixote Description of subject: Don Quixote is a tone poem by Richard Strauss that musically depicts the adventures and delusions of Cervantes’ iconic knight-errant through a series of symphonic variations.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
American Ballet Theatre
this entity surface form:
Don Quichotte
this entity surface form:
adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
subject surface form:
"It's All the Same"