Rip Van Winkle
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Rip Van Winkle is a classic American short story about a man who mysteriously sleeps through decades in the Catskill Mountains and awakens to a transformed world.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rip Van Winkle canonical | 18 |
| Rip Van Winkle Jr. | 2 |
| Rip Van Winkle (character) | 1 |
| Rip Van Winkle (film adaptations) | 1 |
| Rip Van Winkle (play) | 1 |
| Rip Van Winkle universe | 1 |
| “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T29235 — 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.
Target entity: Rip Van Winkle Context triple: [Washington Irving, notableWork, Rip Van Winkle]
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an 1820 short story by Washington Irving that tells the eerie tale of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the legendary Headless Horseman in a haunted New York valley.
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B.
Diedrich Knickerbocker
Diedrich Knickerbocker is a fictional Dutch-American historian persona created by Washington Irving, best known as the purported author of "A History of New York."
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C.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. is an 1819–1820 collection of short stories and essays by Washington Irving that helped establish his reputation and American literature’s international standing.
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D.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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E.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a satirical novel that transports a 19th-century American engineer back to King Arthur’s Britain, where he uses modern knowledge to challenge medieval society and romanticized chivalry.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Rip Van Winkle Target entity description: Rip Van Winkle is a classic American short story about a man who mysteriously sleeps through decades in the Catskill Mountains and awakens to a transformed world.
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A.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an 1820 short story by Washington Irving that tells the eerie tale of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the legendary Headless Horseman in a haunted New York valley.
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B.
Diedrich Knickerbocker
Diedrich Knickerbocker is a fictional Dutch-American historian persona created by Washington Irving, best known as the purported author of "A History of New York."
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C.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. is an 1819–1820 collection of short stories and essays by Washington Irving that helped establish his reputation and American literature’s international standing.
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D.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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E.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a satirical novel that transports a 19th-century American engineer back to King Arthur’s Britain, where he uses modern knowledge to challenge medieval society and romanticized chivalry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Washington Irving ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | classic of American literature ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Dame Van Winkle
ⓘ
Judith Gardenier ⓘ Nicholas Vedder ⓘ Rip Van Winkle self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Rip Van Winkle Jr.
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| containsSupernaturalElement | mysterious Dutch bowlers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| featuresEvent | American Revolutionary War (in background) ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | C. S. Van Winkle ⓘ |
| genre |
American literature
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fantasy fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Rip Van Winkle
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Rip Van Winkle (film adaptations)
Rip Van Winkle self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Rip Van Winkle (play)
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| hasIllustrationBy | Arthur Rackham ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryDevice |
allegory
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frame narrative ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasMotive | escape from domestic life ⓘ |
| hasPublicDomainStatus | public domain in the United States ⓘ |
| includedIn | many American literature anthologies ⓘ |
| influenced | American short story tradition ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | European folk tales about long sleepers ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Rip Van Winkle
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Rip Van Winkle (character)
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| narrator | Geoffrey Crayon ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| protagonistStatusAfterSleep | citizen of the United States ⓘ |
| protagonistStatusBeforeSleep | colonial subject of King George III ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1819 ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| settingLocation | Catskill Mountains ⓘ |
| settingTime | before and after the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| theme |
change over time
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freedom and responsibility ⓘ identity and memory ⓘ American Revolutionary era ⓘ
surface form:
the American Revolution
tradition versus progress ⓘ |
| timeSkipDuration | 20 years ⓘ |
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Referenced by (25)
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