Les Rougon-Macquart
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Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
All labels observed (23)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T545115 — 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 Rougon-Macquart Context triple: [Émile Zola, notableWork, Les Rougon-Macquart]
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A.
La Comédie humaine
La Comédie humaine is Honoré de Balzac’s vast, interconnected cycle of novels and stories depicting French society in the early 19th century.
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B.
Scènes de la vie de province
Scènes de la vie de province is a series of interlinked novels by Honoré de Balzac depicting the social, political, and personal lives of characters in provincial France as part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
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C.
Le Siècle
Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
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D.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
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E.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
- 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 Rougon-Macquart Target entity description: Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
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A.
La Comédie humaine
La Comédie humaine is Honoré de Balzac’s vast, interconnected cycle of novels and stories depicting French society in the early 19th century.
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B.
Scènes de la vie de province
Scènes de la vie de province is a series of interlinked novels by Honoré de Balzac depicting the social, political, and personal lives of characters in provincial France as part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
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C.
Le Siècle
Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
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D.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
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E.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book series
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literary work ⓘ novel cycle ⓘ |
| author | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| centralFamily |
Les Rougon-Macquart
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Rougon-Macquart family
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| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts |
bourgeois society
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industrialization ⓘ urban life in Paris ⓘ working-class conditions ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1871 ⓘ |
| genre |
naturalist fiction
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realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Au Bonheur des Dames
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Les Rougon-Macquart self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Germinal
Les Rougon-Macquart self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
La Bête humaine
La Conquête de Plassans ⓘ La Curée ⓘ La Débâcle ⓘ La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret ⓘ Les Rougon-Macquart self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
La Fortune des Rougon
La Joie de vivre ⓘ La Terre ⓘ Le Docteur Pascal ⓘ Le Rêve ⓘ Le Ventre de Paris ⓘ L’Argent ⓘ Les Rougon-Macquart self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
L’Assommoir
L’Œuvre ⓘ Nana ⓘ Pot-Bouille ⓘ Son Excellence Eugène Rougon ⓘ Une Page d’amour ⓘ |
| historicalSetting |
Second Empire of France
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surface form:
Second French Empire
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| influencedBy |
positivism
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scientific theories of heredity ⓘ |
| lastPublicationYear | 1893 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Realism
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surface form:
Naturalism
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| mainTheme |
French society
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determinism ⓘ environment ⓘ heredity ⓘ |
| narrativeScope | multiple generations ⓘ |
| notableWorkInCycle |
Au Bonheur des Dames
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Les Rougon-Macquart self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Germinal
Les Rougon-Macquart self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
L’Assommoir
Nana ⓘ |
| numberOfWorks | 20 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| publisher | Georges Charpentier ⓘ |
| setting | France ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | 1852–1870 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Les Rougon-Macquart Description of subject: Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
Referenced by (127)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rougon-Macquart universe
this entity surface form:
Les Rougon-Macquart (novel cycle)
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Nana (novel) by Émile Zola
this entity surface form:
Les Rougon-Macquart universe
this entity surface form:
Rougon-Macquart series
this entity surface form:
Rougon-Macquart cycle
this entity surface form:
Les Rougon-Macquart: Histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le Second Empire
this entity surface form:
Rougon-Macquart universe
this entity surface form:
L’Assommoir
this entity surface form:
Les Rougon-Macquart universe
this entity surface form:
Rougon-Macquart cycle
this entity surface form:
Rougon-Macquart family
this entity surface form:
Rougon-Macquart cycle of twenty novels
subject surface form:
Naturalism (literature)
this entity surface form:
L'Assommoir