Les Célibataires
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Les Célibataires is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his panoramic literary cycle La Comédie humaine, depicting the lives and frustrations of unmarried characters in provincial France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Les Célibataires canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3090571 — 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: Les Célibataires Context triple: [Scènes de la vie de province, hasPart, Les Célibataires]
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A.
La Braconne
La Braconne is a French film featuring actress Rachida Brakni in a prominent role.
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B.
Loin des hommes
Loin des hommes is a French drama film set in 1950s Algeria that explores themes of colonialism, morality, and human connection amid the Algerian War.
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C.
Les Employés
Les Employés is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that satirically portrays the bureaucracy and office life of 19th-century French civil servants.
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D.
Chaise cassée
Chaise cassée is the French title of the monumental Broken Chair sculpture, a giant wooden chair with a broken leg symbolizing opposition to land mines and armed violence, located in Geneva.
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E.
La Chinoise
La Chinoise is a 1967 French New Wave film by Jean-Luc Godard that satirically explores youthful Maoist radicalism in Paris on the eve of the 1968 student protests.
- 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: Les Célibataires Target entity description: Les Célibataires is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his panoramic literary cycle La Comédie humaine, depicting the lives and frustrations of unmarried characters in provincial France.
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A.
La Braconne
La Braconne is a French film featuring actress Rachida Brakni in a prominent role.
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B.
Loin des hommes
Loin des hommes is a French drama film set in 1950s Algeria that explores themes of colonialism, morality, and human connection amid the Algerian War.
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C.
Les Employés
Les Employés is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that satirically portrays the bureaucracy and office life of 19th-century French civil servants.
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D.
Chaise cassée
Chaise cassée is the French title of the monumental Broken Chair sculpture, a giant wooden chair with a broken leg symbolizing opposition to land mines and armed violence, located in Geneva.
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E.
La Chinoise
La Chinoise is a 1967 French New Wave film by Jean-Luc Godard that satirically explores youthful Maoist radicalism in Paris on the eve of the 1968 student protests.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| depicts |
social constraints in provincial France
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unmarried characters ⓘ |
| genre |
novella
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realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | French ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
celibacy
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provincial life in France ⓘ |
| literaryCycle | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Realism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
frustrations of celibacy
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lives of unmarried people ⓘ provincial French society ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| settingLocation | provincial France ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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.
Input
Subject: Les Célibataires Description of subject: Les Célibataires is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his panoramic literary cycle La Comédie humaine, depicting the lives and frustrations of unmarried characters in provincial France.
Referenced by (1)
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