Villon’s Wife
E717984
Villon’s Wife is a semi-autobiographical novella by Japanese author Osamu Dazai that portrays a troubled writer’s wife struggling with poverty, infidelity, and moral ambiguity in postwar Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Villon’s Wife canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8186260 — 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: Villon’s Wife Context triple: [Osamu Dazai, notableWork, Villon’s Wife]
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Criseyde
Criseyde is the central female figure in Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval romance "Troilus and Criseyde," known for her complex portrayal as a lover whose fidelity and choices drive the poem’s tragic narrative.
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The Lady of Lyons
The Lady of Lyons is a popular 1838 romantic melodrama by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, centered on love, pride, and social class in post-Napoleonic France.
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La Marchande d’Amours
La Marchande d’Amours is the original French title of the 18th-century painting commonly known in English as The Seller of Cupids, depicting a vendor offering small Cupid figures in a playful mythological scene.
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Mademoiselle de Chartres
Mademoiselle de Chartres was the courtesy title of Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, a French princess of the blood from the House of Orléans in the early 18th century.
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Heptaméron
Heptaméron is a 16th-century collection of framed short stories modeled on Boccaccio’s Decameron, notable for its exploration of love, morality, and gender relations in Renaissance 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: Villon’s Wife Target entity description: Villon’s Wife is a semi-autobiographical novella by Japanese author Osamu Dazai that portrays a troubled writer’s wife struggling with poverty, infidelity, and moral ambiguity in postwar Japan.
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A.
Criseyde
Criseyde is the central female figure in Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval romance "Troilus and Criseyde," known for her complex portrayal as a lover whose fidelity and choices drive the poem’s tragic narrative.
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B.
The Lady of Lyons
The Lady of Lyons is a popular 1838 romantic melodrama by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, centered on love, pride, and social class in post-Napoleonic France.
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C.
La Marchande d’Amours
La Marchande d’Amours is the original French title of the 18th-century painting commonly known in English as The Seller of Cupids, depicting a vendor offering small Cupid figures in a playful mythological scene.
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D.
Mademoiselle de Chartres
Mademoiselle de Chartres was the courtesy title of Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, a French princess of the blood from the House of Orléans in the early 18th century.
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E.
Heptaméron
Heptaméron is a 16th-century collection of framed short stories modeled on Boccaccio’s Decameron, notable for its exploration of love, morality, and gender relations in Renaissance France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ |
| adaptation | Villon’s Wife (2009 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptationType | Japanese live‑action film ⓘ |
| author | Osamu Dazai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
addiction and self‑destruction
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female resilience ⓘ marital infidelity ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ poverty ⓘ self‑sacrifice ⓘ shame and social stigma ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Kichitaro Negishi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmLeadActor |
Tadanobu Asano
NERFINISHED
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Takako Matsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
postwar literature
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psychological fiction ⓘ semi‑autobiographical fiction ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Osamu Dazai’s personal life ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Shōwa era literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | classic of modern Japanese literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | the writer’s wife ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first‑person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of postwar Japanese society
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portrayal of a writer’s destructive behavior ⓘ sympathetic depiction of a suffering wife ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | postwar Japan ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Villon’s Wife Description of subject: Villon’s Wife is a semi-autobiographical novella by Japanese author Osamu Dazai that portrays a troubled writer’s wife struggling with poverty, infidelity, and moral ambiguity in postwar Japan.
Referenced by (1)
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