Le festin de l’araignée
E231768
Le festin de l’araignée is a 1913 ballet-pantomime by French composer Albert Roussel, notable for its impressionistic orchestral depiction of insect life in a garden.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Le Festin de l’araignée | 1 |
| Le festin de l’araignée canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2068760 — 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 festin de l’araignée Context triple: [Albert Roussel, hasNotableWork, Le festin de l’araignée]
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A.
The Spider
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B.
Les Écréhous
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C.
The Smiling Spider
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D.
La Sablonière
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E.
L’Escargot
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- 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 festin de l’araignée Target entity description: Le festin de l’araignée is a 1913 ballet-pantomime by French composer Albert Roussel, notable for its impressionistic orchestral depiction of insect life in a garden.
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A.
The Spider
The Spider is the English title of the 29th chapter (Surah Al-Ankabut) of the Qur’an, which addresses themes of faith, trials, and the fragility of relying on anything other than God.
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B.
Les Écréhous
Les Écréhous is a small, largely uninhabited group of islets and rocks in the English Channel, lying off the coast of Jersey and known for its wildlife and scenic seascapes.
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C.
The Smiling Spider
The Smiling Spider is a famous Symbolist charcoal drawing by Odilon Redon depicting a fantastical, grinning arachnid that exemplifies his eerie, dreamlike imagery.
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D.
La Sablonière
La Sablonière is one of the small islets within the Les Écréhous reef and island group off the coast of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
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E.
L’Escargot
L’Escargot is a French-titled work known in English as "The Snail," most famously associated with Henri Matisse’s colorful cut-out collage artwork.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet
ⓘ
ballet-pantomime ⓘ orchestral work ⓘ |
| approximateDuration | about 30 minutes ⓘ |
| basedOn | scenario about a spider’s feast ⓘ |
| catalogueNumber | Op. 17 ⓘ |
| composer | Albert Roussel ⓘ |
| composerNationality | French ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
spider
ⓘ
various insects ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceType | ballet performance ⓘ |
| genre |
ballet
ⓘ
orchestral music ⓘ pantomime ⓘ |
| hasArrangement | orchestral suite ⓘ |
| hasForm | programmatic ballet ⓘ |
| hasPart |
finale
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prelude ⓘ various dances ⓘ |
| hasRecording | multiple commercial recordings ⓘ |
| hasScenario | life and death of insects in a garden ⓘ |
| includedInRepertoireOf |
ballet companies
ⓘ
symphony orchestras ⓘ |
| isProgrammatic | true ⓘ |
| movementCount | one act ⓘ |
| musicalEra | modern era ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed musical characterization of insect movements
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impressionistic orchestral depiction of insects ⓘ |
| orchestration | symphony orchestra ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| period | early 20th century ⓘ |
| premiereCity | Paris ⓘ |
| premiereCountry | France ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| premiereTheatre | Théâtre des Arts ⓘ |
| publisher | Durand ⓘ |
| setting | garden ⓘ |
| style | Impressionism ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | insect life in a garden ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | The Spider’s Feast ⓘ |
| usesMusicalTechniques |
colorful orchestration
ⓘ
motivic depiction of animals ⓘ |
| workNumberInComposerOutput | Opus 17 ⓘ |
| yearOfComposition | 1912 ⓘ |
| yearOfPremiere | 1913 ⓘ |
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.
Instruction
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Input
Subject: Le festin de l’araignée Description of subject: Le festin de l’araignée is a 1913 ballet-pantomime by French composer Albert Roussel, notable for its impressionistic orchestral depiction of insect life in a garden.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Albert Roussel
this entity surface form:
Le Festin de l’araignée