Le Ton beau de Marot
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Le Ton beau de Marot is a book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores translation, language, and meaning through playful, deeply reflective analyses and reworkings of a single French poem.
All labels observed (1)
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| Le Ton beau de Marot canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1924124 — 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: Le Ton beau de Marot Context triple: [Douglas Hofstadter, notableWork, Le Ton beau de Marot]
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A.
Le Rondinelle
Le Rondinelle is the traditional nickname of Italian football club Brescia Calcio, referring to the team and its players.
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B.
Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
Le Tonnelier de Breteuil is the aristocratic French family name of Émilie du Châtelet, associated with the 18th-century nobility and intellectual circles of France.
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C.
Le Chevalier de la Charrette
Le Chevalier de la Charrette is a 12th-century Arthurian romance by Chrétien de Troyes that famously introduces and centers on the exploits and courtly love of Sir Lancelot.
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D.
Éloge de Gournay
Éloge de Gournay is an economic and philosophical essay by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot that praises and expounds the free-trade ideas of his mentor, the French economist Vincent de Gournay.
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E.
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour is a Post-Impressionist painting by Émile Bernard that depicts a contemplative female figure in a wooded landscape, reflecting the artist’s Symbolist and Cloisonnist style.
- 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: Le Ton beau de Marot Target entity description: Le Ton beau de Marot is a book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores translation, language, and meaning through playful, deeply reflective analyses and reworkings of a single French poem.
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A.
Le Rondinelle
Le Rondinelle is the traditional nickname of Italian football club Brescia Calcio, referring to the team and its players.
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B.
Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
Le Tonnelier de Breteuil is the aristocratic French family name of Émilie du Châtelet, associated with the 18th-century nobility and intellectual circles of France.
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C.
Le Chevalier de la Charrette
Le Chevalier de la Charrette is a 12th-century Arthurian romance by Chrétien de Troyes that famously introduces and centers on the exploits and courtly love of Sir Lancelot.
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D.
Éloge de Gournay
Éloge de Gournay is an economic and philosophical essay by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot that praises and expounds the free-trade ideas of his mentor, the French economist Vincent de Gournay.
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E.
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour is a Post-Impressionist painting by Émile Bernard that depicts a contemplative female figure in a wooded landscape, reflecting the artist’s Symbolist and Cloisonnist style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| analyzes | “A une Damoyselle malade” ⓘ |
| author | Douglas Hofstadter ⓘ |
| contains |
autobiographical reflections by Douglas Hofstadter
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commentary on machine translation ⓘ numerous experimental translations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| discusses |
Clément Marot
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English language ⓘ French language ⓘ cognitive processes in understanding language ⓘ puns and wordplay ⓘ |
| explores |
constraints of poetic translation
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creativity in translation ⓘ cross-linguistic equivalence ⓘ humor in language ⓘ relationship between form and meaning ⓘ self-reference in language ⓘ |
| focusesOn | a poem by Clément Marot ⓘ |
| genre |
cognitive science
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essay collection ⓘ linguistics ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ translation studies ⓘ |
| hasForm |
essayistic
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playful ⓘ reflective ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | ~632 ⓘ |
| hasSubtitle | In Praise of the Music of Language ⓘ |
| ISBN | 9780465086453 ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
language
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meaning ⓘ poetry ⓘ translation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extensive use of parallel translations
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integration of personal narrative with theory ⓘ interdisciplinary approach to translation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| publisher | Basic Books ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Metamagical Themas ⓘ |
| structureIncludes | multiple translations of a single French poem ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | French ⓘ |
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Subject: Le Ton beau de Marot Description of subject: Le Ton beau de Marot is a book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores translation, language, and meaning through playful, deeply reflective analyses and reworkings of a single French poem.
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subject surface form:
Douglas Hofstadter