Hundejahre
E621536
Hundejahre is the original German title of Günter Grass’s novel "Dog Years," a major work of postwar literature that explores life in Nazi and postwar Germany through dark satire and magical realism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dog Years | 1 |
| Hundejahre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6827302 — 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: Hundejahre Context triple: [Dog Years, originalTitle, Hundejahre]
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A.
The Dogs
The Dogs is a nickname commonly used for sports teams or groups whose mascots or identities are associated with dogs, often evoking toughness and loyalty.
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B.
Hunde
The Hunde are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group primarily inhabiting the Kivu region of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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C.
The Kennel
The Kennel is the famously raucous home environment for Gonzaga University's men's basketball team, known for its intense crowd energy and strong home-court advantage.
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D.
A Boy and His Dog
A Boy and His Dog is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novella best known for its darkly satirical portrayal of a telepathic bond between a boy and his dog as they struggle to survive in a devastated future America.
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E.
Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog is a satirical science fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov that critiques Soviet society through the story of a stray dog transformed into a human.
- 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: Hundejahre Target entity description: Hundejahre is the original German title of Günter Grass’s novel "Dog Years," a major work of postwar literature that explores life in Nazi and postwar Germany through dark satire and magical realism.
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A.
The Dogs
The Dogs is a nickname commonly used for sports teams or groups whose mascots or identities are associated with dogs, often evoking toughness and loyalty.
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B.
Hunde
The Hunde are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group primarily inhabiting the Kivu region of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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C.
The Kennel
The Kennel is the famously raucous home environment for Gonzaga University's men's basketball team, known for its intense crowd energy and strong home-court advantage.
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D.
A Boy and His Dog
A Boy and His Dog is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novella best known for its darkly satirical portrayal of a telepathic bond between a boy and his dog as they struggle to survive in a devastated future America.
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E.
Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog is a satirical science fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov that critiques Soviet society through the story of a stray dog transformed into a human.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literaryWork
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| author | Günter Grass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | German ⓘ |
| authorNobelPrizeStatus | author is Nobel Prize in Literature laureate ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| follows |
Die Blechtrommel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Katz und Maus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
magic realism
ⓘ
novel ⓘ postwar literature ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
ordinary Germans under Nazism
ⓘ
outsiders and misfits ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | considered a major work of postwar German literature ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | Dog Years NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
German collective memory
ⓘ
Holocaust legacy NERFINISHED ⓘ World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleTranslationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | Dog Years ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | German ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
dark satire
ⓘ
magical realism ⓘ |
| mainLocation | Danzig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | multi-perspective narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critical portrayal of life under Nazism
ⓘ
exploration of postwar German society ⓘ use of grotesque and fantastical elements ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf | Danzig Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Katz und Maus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| setting |
Nazi Germany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
postwar Germany ⓘ |
| theme |
German history
ⓘ
Nazism ⓘ complicity ⓘ guilt ⓘ identity ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| workInOriginalLanguage | Hundejahre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workType | fiction ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Hundejahre Description of subject: Hundejahre is the original German title of Günter Grass’s novel "Dog Years," a major work of postwar literature that explores life in Nazi and postwar Germany through dark satire and magical realism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dog Years