Sarrasine
E310109
Sarrasine is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of art, gender, and obsession through the story of a French sculptor’s infatuation with a castrato singer in Rome.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarrasine canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2901462 — 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: Sarrasine Context triple: [La Comédie humaine, hasPart, Sarrasine]
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A.
Les Preuses
Les Preuses is one of the prestigious Grand Cru vineyard sites in Chablis, renowned for producing complex, age-worthy Chardonnay wines.
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B.
The Lady of Lyons
The Lady of Lyons is a popular 1838 romantic melodrama by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, centered on love, pride, and social class in post-Napoleonic France.
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C.
The Queen of Shemakha
The Queen of Shemakha is a seductive and enigmatic royal figure from Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera "The Golden Cockerel," whose allure and manipulation drive the story’s tragic events.
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D.
La Bérarde
La Bérarde is a small alpine hamlet in the French Alps, known as a base for mountaineering and hiking in the Écrins massif.
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E.
Lady of Elche
The Lady of Elche is a famous 4th-century BCE Iberian stone bust, renowned for its elaborate headdress and jewelry and considered one of Spain’s most iconic archaeological artifacts.
- 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: Sarrasine Target entity description: Sarrasine is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of art, gender, and obsession through the story of a French sculptor’s infatuation with a castrato singer in Rome.
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A.
Les Preuses
Les Preuses is one of the prestigious Grand Cru vineyard sites in Chablis, renowned for producing complex, age-worthy Chardonnay wines.
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B.
The Lady of Lyons
The Lady of Lyons is a popular 1838 romantic melodrama by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, centered on love, pride, and social class in post-Napoleonic France.
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C.
The Queen of Shemakha
The Queen of Shemakha is a seductive and enigmatic royal figure from Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera "The Golden Cockerel," whose allure and manipulation drive the story’s tragic events.
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D.
La Bérarde
La Bérarde is a small alpine hamlet in the French Alps, known as a base for mountaineering and hiking in the Écrins massif.
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E.
Lady of Elche
The Lady of Elche is a famous 4th-century BCE Iberian stone bust, renowned for its elaborate headdress and jewelry and considered one of Spain’s most iconic archaeological artifacts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novella ⓘ |
| analyzedBy | Roland Barthes ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| character | Zambinella ⓘ |
| characterType | castrato singer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| cycle | Scènes de la vie parisienne ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1830 ⓘ |
| genre |
novella
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ realist literature ⓘ romantic fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRelationship | Sarrasine is infatuated with Zambinella ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | literary theory of structuralism ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
art as deception
ⓘ
disguise ⓘ misrecognition ⓘ the artist and the model ⓘ |
| hasStructure | embedded tale within salon narrative ⓘ |
| includedIn | Balzac short fiction collections ⓘ |
| inCollection | La Comédie humaine editions ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Romance languages ⓘ |
| literaryAnalysis | subject of Roland Barthes essay S/Z ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
French Realist movement
ⓘ
surface form:
French realism
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| mainCharacter | Ernest-Jean Sarrasine ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | sculptor ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | frame narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Sarrasine self-link ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| publisher | various 19th-century French publishers ⓘ |
| series | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Paris
ⓘ
Rome ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
courses on 19th-century French literature
ⓘ
courses on gender studies ⓘ courses on literary theory ⓘ |
| theme |
aesthetics
ⓘ
ambiguity of gender ⓘ art ⓘ desire ⓘ gender ⓘ illusion and reality ⓘ obsession ⓘ representation ⓘ sexual identity ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 18th century ⓘ |
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Referenced by (4)
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