Les Fleurs du mal
E120689
Les Fleurs du mal is a landmark 1857 poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire that explores themes of beauty, decadence, and modern urban life, and is considered a foundational work of modernist literature.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Les Fleurs du mal canonical | 6 |
| The Flowers of Evil | 3 |
| Baudelaire’s prose poems | 1 |
| Fleurs du mal | 1 |
| Les Fleurs du mal, translated into German | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1009745 — 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: Les Fleurs du mal Context triple: [Charles Baudelaire, notableWork, Les Fleurs du mal]
-
A.
Stances et poèmes
Stances et poèmes is a collection of lyric poetry by French poet Sully Prudhomme, reflecting his introspective and philosophical style that helped establish his literary reputation.
-
B.
Les Complaintes
Les Complaintes is a collection of symbolist poems by Jules Laforgue that blends irony, melancholy, and musical language to explore modern existential themes.
-
C.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
-
D.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
-
E.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Les Fleurs du mal Target entity description: Les Fleurs du mal is a landmark 1857 poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire that explores themes of beauty, decadence, and modern urban life, and is considered a foundational work of modernist literature.
-
A.
Stances et poèmes
Stances et poèmes is a collection of lyric poetry by French poet Sully Prudhomme, reflecting his introspective and philosophical style that helped establish his literary reputation.
-
B.
Les Complaintes
Les Complaintes is a collection of symbolist poems by Jules Laforgue that blends irony, melancholy, and musical language to explore modern existential themes.
-
C.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
-
D.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
-
E.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | Charles Baudelaire ⓘ |
| censorshipLifted | 1949 in France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
ⓘ
modernist literature ⓘ symbolist poetry ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
1861 expanded edition of Les Fleurs du mal
ⓘ
posthumous 1868 edition of Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| hasIllustratedEditionBy |
Odilon Redon
ⓘ
Édouard Manet ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
Les Fleurs du mal, translated into English
ⓘ
Les Fleurs du mal self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Les Fleurs du mal, translated into German
Les Fleurs du mal, translated into Spanish ⓘ |
| influenced |
Symbolist poets
ⓘ
surface form:
French Symbolist poets
Modernist poets ⓘ Paul Verlaine ⓘ Stéphane Mallarmé ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| isConsidered | foundational work of modernist literature ⓘ |
| legalStatus | subject of an obscenity trial in 1857 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Modernism
ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ |
| notablePoem |
Correspondances
ⓘ
L'Albatros ⓘ Le Balcon ⓘ Le Voyage ⓘ Les Bijoux ⓘ Spleen ⓘ Une Charogne ⓘ |
| numberOfPoems | 100 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Paris ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1857 ⓘ |
| publisher | Auguste Poulet-Malassis ⓘ |
| resultOfTrial | six poems banned by French court ⓘ |
| section |
Les Fleurs du mal
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Fleurs du mal
La Mort ⓘ Le Vin ⓘ Révolte ⓘ Spleen et Idéal ⓘ |
| structure | six main sections in first edition ⓘ |
| theme |
beauty
ⓘ
boredom ⓘ death ⓘ decadence ⓘ eroticism ⓘ modern urban life ⓘ sin ⓘ spiritual crisis ⓘ |
| titleMeaning |
Les Fleurs du mal
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Flowers of Evil
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Les Fleurs du mal Description of subject: Les Fleurs du mal is a landmark 1857 poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire that explores themes of beauty, decadence, and modern urban life, and is considered a foundational work of modernist literature.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.