Funes the Memorious
E622055
Funes the Memorious is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges about a young man cursed with perfect, total recall, exploring the burdens and paradoxes of absolute memory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Funes the Memorious canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6827606 — 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: Funes the Memorious Context triple: [Ficciones, hasPart, Funes the Memorious]
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A.
El Aleph
El Aleph is a celebrated short story by Jorge Luis Borges that explores infinity, perception, and the nature of reality through the discovery of a point in space that contains all other points.
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B.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez that portrays the surreal, oppressive world of a timeless Caribbean dictator through dense, lyrical prose characteristic of magical realism.
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C.
Mr. Palomar
Mr. Palomar is a contemplative novel by Italo Calvino that follows its introspective protagonist’s precise observations of the world as a way to explore perception, knowledge, and existence.
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D.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is an innovative 1881 novel by Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, narrated by a dead man and celebrated for its ironic, metafictional style that helped pioneer modernist fiction in Latin America.
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E.
Über das Gedächtnis
Über das Gedächtnis is Hermann Ebbinghaus’s pioneering 1885 work that introduced experimental methods to the study of human memory, including the famous forgetting curve and learning curve.
- 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: Funes the Memorious Target entity description: Funes the Memorious is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges about a young man cursed with perfect, total recall, exploring the burdens and paradoxes of absolute memory.
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A.
El Aleph
El Aleph is a celebrated short story by Jorge Luis Borges that explores infinity, perception, and the nature of reality through the discovery of a point in space that contains all other points.
-
B.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez that portrays the surreal, oppressive world of a timeless Caribbean dictator through dense, lyrical prose characteristic of magical realism.
-
C.
Mr. Palomar
Mr. Palomar is a contemplative novel by Italo Calvino that follows its introspective protagonist’s precise observations of the world as a way to explore perception, knowledge, and existence.
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D.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is an innovative 1881 novel by Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, narrated by a dead man and celebrated for its ironic, metafictional style that helped pioneer modernist fiction in Latin America.
-
E.
Über das Gedächtnis
Über das Gedächtnis is Hermann Ebbinghaus’s pioneering 1885 work that introduced experimental methods to the study of human memory, including the famous forgetting curve and learning curve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
short story
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work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | Jorge Luis Borges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
burden of perfect recall
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identity ⓘ limits of knowledge ⓘ memory ⓘ perception ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | La Nación NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophical fiction
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short story ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
radio adaptations
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television adaptations ⓘ theatrical adaptations ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Ireneo Funes
NERFINISHED
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narrator’s cousin Bernardo NERFINISHED ⓘ unnamed narrator ⓘ |
| includedIn | Ficciones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Leibnizian ideas about monads and perception
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philosophy of idealism ⓘ |
| languageStyle | concise and analytical prose ⓘ |
| laterPublicationForm | short story collection ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | magic realism ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
first-person narration
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frame narrative ⓘ philosophical digression ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Ireneo Funes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrator | unnamed first-person narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a man with perfect memory
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exploration of cognitive overload ⓘ influence on later discussions of memory in literature ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Funes el memorioso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Borges’s fictional universe ⓘ |
| philosophicalAspect |
impossibility of generalization with perfect memory
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paradox of absolute memory ⓘ relationship between language and perception ⓘ |
| plotElement |
Funes acquires perfect memory after a horse-riding accident
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narrator visits Funes and learns about his memory ⓘ |
| protagonistCondition |
inability to forget
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total recall of every experience ⓘ |
| publicationForm | magazine publication ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Uruguay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Fray Bentos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 19th century ⓘ |
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Input
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