La Veuve Couderc
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La Veuve Couderc is a 1971 French drama film, based on a Georges Simenon novel, about a widowed farm owner whose relationship with a younger ex-convict exposes tensions in a rural community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Veuve Couderc canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10351906 — 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 Veuve Couderc Context triple: [Simone Signoret, notableWork, La Veuve Couderc]
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A.
Les Sœurs Vatard
Les Sœurs Vatard is a naturalist novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans that portrays the lives and struggles of two working-class sisters in late 19th-century Paris.
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B.
Folle Blanche
Folle Blanche is a traditional French white grape variety historically prized in Armagnac and Cognac production for its high acidity and delicate, floral spirits.
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C.
Margeride
Margeride is a mountainous and sparsely populated region in south-central France known for its granite plateaus, forests, and traditional rural landscapes.
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D.
La Coupée
La Coupée is a dramatic, narrow isthmus with steep cliffs and a coastal road that forms the striking land bridge between the main island of Sark and Little Sark in the Channel Islands.
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E.
La Sablonière
La Sablonière is one of the small islets within the Les Écréhous reef and island group off the coast of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
- 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 Veuve Couderc Target entity description: La Veuve Couderc is a 1971 French drama film, based on a Georges Simenon novel, about a widowed farm owner whose relationship with a younger ex-convict exposes tensions in a rural community.
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A.
Les Sœurs Vatard
Les Sœurs Vatard is a naturalist novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans that portrays the lives and struggles of two working-class sisters in late 19th-century Paris.
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B.
Folle Blanche
Folle Blanche is a traditional French white grape variety historically prized in Armagnac and Cognac production for its high acidity and delicate, floral spirits.
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C.
Margeride
Margeride is a mountainous and sparsely populated region in south-central France known for its granite plateaus, forests, and traditional rural landscapes.
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D.
La Coupée
La Coupée is a dramatic, narrow isthmus with steep cliffs and a coastal road that forms the striking land bridge between the main island of Sark and Little Sark in the Channel Islands.
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E.
La Sablonière
La Sablonière is one of the small islets within the Les Écréhous reef and island group off the coast of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | La Veuve Couderc (novel) by Georges Simenon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Georges Simenon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | La Veuve Couderc (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Walter Wottitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts | French rural life in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| director | Pierre Granier-Deferre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Lira Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jean Ravel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Alain Delon
NERFINISHED
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Bernard Fresson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Tissier NERFINISHED ⓘ Monique Chaumette NERFINISHED ⓘ Simone Signoret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
age-gap relationship
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class conflict ⓘ loneliness ⓘ rural social tensions ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Jean Lavigne
NERFINISHED
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La Veuve Couderc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Philippe Sarde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | relationship between a widow and an ex-convict ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A widowed farm owner begins a relationship with a younger ex-convict, provoking tensions in a rural community. ⓘ |
| portrays |
Alain Delon as Jean Lavigne
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Simone Signoret as La Veuve Couderc ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Lira Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1971 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 90 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Pascal Jardin
NERFINISHED
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Pierre Granier-Deferre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | French countryside ⓘ |
| title | La Veuve Couderc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: La Veuve Couderc Description of subject: La Veuve Couderc is a 1971 French drama film, based on a Georges Simenon novel, about a widowed farm owner whose relationship with a younger ex-convict exposes tensions in a rural community.
Referenced by (1)
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