Les Cavaliers
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Les Cavaliers is a novel by French writer Joseph Kessel that follows Afghan horsemen on perilous buzkashi journeys, blending adventure with a vivid portrait of Afghan culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Les Cavaliers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6009127 — 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 Cavaliers Context triple: [Joseph Kessel, notableWork, Les Cavaliers]
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A.
La Cavalerie
La Cavalerie is a commune in southern France historically known for hosting a garrison of the French Foreign Legion.
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B.
Master of the Horse
The Master of the Horse was a senior court official in the British royal household responsible for overseeing the monarch’s stables, horses, and related ceremonial transport.
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C.
Cavaleiro
Cavaleiro is a small locality within the municipality of Loulé in Portugal’s Algarve region.
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D.
Szkoła Rycerska
Szkoła Rycerska was an elite 18th-century Polish military academy in Warsaw that trained future officers and statesmen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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E.
The Knights
The Knights is the nickname of the U.S. Air Force’s 21st Space Wing, a unit historically responsible for space control and missile warning operations.
- 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 Cavaliers Target entity description: Les Cavaliers is a novel by French writer Joseph Kessel that follows Afghan horsemen on perilous buzkashi journeys, blending adventure with a vivid portrait of Afghan culture.
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A.
La Cavalerie
La Cavalerie is a commune in southern France historically known for hosting a garrison of the French Foreign Legion.
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B.
Master of the Horse
The Master of the Horse was a senior court official in the British royal household responsible for overseeing the monarch’s stables, horses, and related ceremonial transport.
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C.
Cavaleiro
Cavaleiro is a small locality within the municipality of Loulé in Portugal’s Algarve region.
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D.
Szkoła Rycerska
Szkoła Rycerska was an elite 18th-century Polish military academy in Warsaw that trained future officers and statesmen of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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E.
The Knights
The Knights is the nickname of the U.S. Air Force’s 21st Space Wing, a unit historically responsible for space control and missile warning operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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novel ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| author | Joseph Kessel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Les Cavaliers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
France
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts | buzkashi ⓘ |
| director | John Frankenheimer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType |
Afghan horseman
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religious figure ⓘ tribal chief ⓘ |
| firstPublicationLanguage | French ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure novel
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historical novel ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | The Horsemen (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
clash between tradition and modernity
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courage ⓘ fatalism ⓘ honor ⓘ loyalty ⓘ man versus nature ⓘ violence and sacrifice ⓘ |
| hasTitleInEnglish | The Horsemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleInOriginalLanguage | Les Cavaliers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | French literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Afghan horsemen ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed descriptions of buzkashi
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ethnographic detail about Afghan tribes ⓘ vivid depiction of Afghan landscapes ⓘ |
| notableWork | Les Cavaliers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Joseph Kessel bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
Afghan culture
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Islamic traditions in Afghanistan ⓘ honor codes in Afghan society ⓘ tribal customs in Afghanistan ⓘ |
| publisher | Gallimard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Les Cavaliers Description of subject: Les Cavaliers is a novel by French writer Joseph Kessel that follows Afghan horsemen on perilous buzkashi journeys, blending adventure with a vivid portrait of Afghan culture.
Referenced by (1)
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