Les Trois Villes
E357311
Les Trois Villes is a trilogy of novels by Émile Zola that explores social, political, and religious themes through the stories of three French cities: Lourdes, Rome, and Paris.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Les Trois Villes canonical | 4 |
| Les Trois Villes trilogy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3432631 — 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 Trois Villes Context triple: [Lourdes, partOfSeries, Les Trois Villes]
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A.
Le Ventre de Paris
Le Ventre de Paris is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that vividly portrays life around Paris’s central market, Les Halles, while exploring themes of social conflict, hunger, and abundance.
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B.
La Ville-du-Bois
La Ville-du-Bois is a commune in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France.
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C.
Les Parisiens
Les Parisiens is the widely used French nickname for Paris Saint-Germain Football Club and its players, emphasizing their identity as representatives of Paris.
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D.
Barrières of Paris
The Barrières of Paris were a series of monumental toll gates built around late 18th-century Paris as part of the city’s customs wall, many designed in a distinctive neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux.
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E.
Les Milles
Les Milles is a French historical drama film centered on World War II-era events at an internment camp in southern France.
- 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 Trois Villes Target entity description: Les Trois Villes is a trilogy of novels by Émile Zola that explores social, political, and religious themes through the stories of three French cities: Lourdes, Rome, and Paris.
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A.
Le Ventre de Paris
Le Ventre de Paris is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that vividly portrays life around Paris’s central market, Les Halles, while exploring themes of social conflict, hunger, and abundance.
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B.
La Ville-du-Bois
La Ville-du-Bois is a commune in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France.
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C.
Les Parisiens
Les Parisiens is the widely used French nickname for Paris Saint-Germain Football Club and its players, emphasizing their identity as representatives of Paris.
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D.
Barrières of Paris
The Barrières of Paris were a series of monumental toll gates built around late 18th-century Paris as part of the city’s customs wall, many designed in a distinctive neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux.
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E.
Les Milles
Les Milles is a French historical drama film centered on World War II-era events at an internment camp in southern France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel trilogy ⓘ |
| author | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
modern urban society
ⓘ
religious pilgrimage ⓘ Catholic Church worldwide ⓘ
surface form:
the Catholic Church
|
| followedBy | Les Quatre Évangiles ⓘ |
| follows | Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ |
| genre |
naturalist literature
ⓘ
novel ⓘ realist literature ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Lourdes
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ Rome ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Naturalism ⓘ |
| mainLocations | three French and European cities ⓘ |
| numberOfWorks | 3 ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| setting |
Lourdes
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Paris ⓘ Rome ⓘ |
| theme |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
faith and doubt ⓘ politics ⓘ religion ⓘ social criticism ⓘ society ⓘ |
| translatedTitle |
Three Cities
ⓘ
surface form:
The Three Cities
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Les Trois Villes Description of subject: Les Trois Villes is a trilogy of novels by Émile Zola that explores social, political, and religious themes through the stories of three French cities: Lourdes, Rome, and Paris.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Les Trois Villes trilogy