La Curée
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La Curée is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores greed, corruption, and moral decay among Parisian high society during France’s Second Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Curée canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T545123 — 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: La Curée Context triple: [Émile Zola, notableWork, La Curée]
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A.
Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental sandstone sculpture in Belfort, France, symbolizing French resistance during the Franco-Prussian War and created by Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
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Les Preuses
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C.
De jure praedae
De jure praedae is a seminal early 17th-century legal treatise by Hugo Grotius that laid foundational principles for international law and the freedom of the seas.
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D.
Les Écréhous
Les Écréhous is a small, largely uninhabited group of islets and rocks in the English Channel, lying off the coast of Jersey and known for its wildlife and scenic seascapes.
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E.
The Corsican Brothers
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- 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: La Curée Target entity description: La Curée is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores greed, corruption, and moral decay among Parisian high society during France’s Second Empire.
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A.
Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental sandstone sculpture in Belfort, France, symbolizing French resistance during the Franco-Prussian War and created by Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
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B.
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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C.
De jure praedae
De jure praedae is a seminal early 17th-century legal treatise by Hugo Grotius that laid foundational principles for international law and the freedom of the seas.
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D.
Les Écréhous
Les Écréhous is a small, largely uninhabited group of islets and rocks in the English Channel, lying off the coast of Jersey and known for its wildlife and scenic seascapes.
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E.
The Corsican Brothers
The Corsican Brothers is a 1941 swashbuckling adventure film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., adapted from Alexandre Dumas’ novella about separated twin brothers bound by a mysterious psychic link.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
naturalist novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts |
Parisian high society
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financial speculation in real estate ⓘ urban transformation of Paris ⓘ |
| explores |
effects of wealth on morality
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intersection of politics and finance ⓘ sexual transgression ⓘ |
| followedBy | Le Ventre de Paris ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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realist novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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stage adaptations ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Haussmannization of Paris ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Naturalism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | key work of French Naturalism ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
detailed social observation
ⓘ
naturalist description ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Aristide Saccard
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Aristide Saccard ⓘ
surface form:
Maxime Saccard
Renée Saccard ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
bourgeois society
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corruption ⓘ greed ⓘ moral decay ⓘ speculation ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ |
| prequel |
La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret
ⓘ
surface form:
La Fortune des Rougon
|
| protagonistFamily |
Les Rougon-Macquart
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surface form:
Rougon-Macquart family
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| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| settingCity | Paris ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Second Empire of France
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surface form:
Second French Empire
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| titleMeaning | the quarry from a hunt ⓘ |
| workIn |
Les Rougon-Macquart
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surface form:
Les Rougon-Macquart: Histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le Second Empire
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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: La Curée Description of subject: La Curée is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores greed, corruption, and moral decay among Parisian high society during France’s Second Empire.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.