La Puce à l’oreille
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La Puce à l’oreille is a classic French farce by playwright Georges Feydeau, renowned for its intricate misunderstandings, rapid-fire dialogue, and expertly constructed comic situations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Puce à l’oreille canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10352014 — 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 Puce à l’oreille Context triple: [Georges Feydeau, notableWork, La Puce à l’oreille]
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A.
Le Curieux
Le Curieux is a satirical poetic work by the French dramatist and poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau.
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B.
La Grenouille avait raison
La Grenouille avait raison is a surreal, visually inventive stage production by Swiss performer and director James Thierrée, blending physical theatre, circus, dance, and dreamlike imagery.
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C.
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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D.
Monsieur Teste
Monsieur Teste is a philosophical character created by Paul Valéry, embodying extreme intellectualism and self-conscious introspection in a series of experimental prose texts.
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E.
Mon cher sujet
Mon cher sujet is a 1988 French-Swiss drama film directed by Anne-Marie Miéville that explores the lives and artistic struggles of three generations of women.
- 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 Puce à l’oreille Target entity description: La Puce à l’oreille is a classic French farce by playwright Georges Feydeau, renowned for its intricate misunderstandings, rapid-fire dialogue, and expertly constructed comic situations.
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A.
Le Curieux
Le Curieux is a satirical poetic work by the French dramatist and poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau.
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B.
La Grenouille avait raison
La Grenouille avait raison is a surreal, visually inventive stage production by Swiss performer and director James Thierrée, blending physical theatre, circus, dance, and dreamlike imagery.
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C.
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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D.
Monsieur Teste
Monsieur Teste is a philosophical character created by Paul Valéry, embodying extreme intellectualism and self-conscious introspection in a series of experimental prose texts.
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E.
Mon cher sujet
Mon cher sujet is a 1988 French-Swiss drama film directed by Anne-Marie Miéville that explores the lives and artistic struggles of three generations of women.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
farce
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play ⓘ stage work ⓘ |
| author | Georges Feydeau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
infidelity (suspected)
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marital jealousy ⓘ miscommunication ⓘ social hypocrisy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1907 ⓘ |
| frequentlyPerformedIn |
France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
farce ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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opera adaptation ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTranslation |
John Mortimer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kenneth McLeish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Act I
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Act II NERFINISHED ⓘ Act III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Paris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ |
| isConsidered |
classic of French farce
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one of Georges Feydeau’s masterpieces ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Camille Chandebise
NERFINISHED
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Carlos Homenidès de Histangua NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucienne Homenidès de Histangua NERFINISHED ⓘ Poche NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymonde Chandebise NERFINISHED ⓘ Romain Tournel NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | French boulevard theatre ⓘ |
| notableAdaptation | 1968 film "A Flea in Her Ear" directed by Jacques Charon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
complex comic situations
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intricate misunderstandings ⓘ rapid-fire dialogue ⓘ use of a doppelgänger character ⓘ use of mistaken identity ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPerformance | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotDevice |
anonymous letter
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revolving bed mechanism ⓘ seedy hotel rendezvous ⓘ |
| structure | three-act play ⓘ |
| theatreOfFirstPerformance | Théâtre des Nouveautés NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatedTitle | A Flea in Her Ear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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