Le Jeune Homme et la Mort
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Le Jeune Homme et la Mort is a short, dramatic ballet choreographed by Roland Petit to a scenario by Jean Cocteau, depicting a young man's fatal encounter with a personification of Death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Le Jeune Homme et la Mort canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10870954 — 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: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort Context triple: [The Young Man and Death, hasTitleInFrench, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort]
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A.
La Mort
La Mort is the final section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal, in which he explores death as both an existential horror and a possible escape from suffering.
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B.
D’entre les morts
D’entre les morts is a 1954 French crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac that served as the literary basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo.
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C.
La Morte amoureuse
La Morte amoureuse is a 19th-century French fantastical short story by Théophile Gautier that blends romance and the supernatural in the tale of a young priest ensnared by a vampiric femme fatale.
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D.
Le Gibet
Le Gibet is the haunting, tolling-bell-centered middle movement of Maurice Ravel’s piano suite Gaspard de la nuit, renowned for its eerie atmosphere and technical subtlety.
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E.
The Young Man and Death
The Young Man and Death is a symbolist painting by Gustave Moreau that portrays a dramatic, allegorical encounter between a youth and the figure of Death.
- 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: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort Target entity description: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort is a short, dramatic ballet choreographed by Roland Petit to a scenario by Jean Cocteau, depicting a young man's fatal encounter with a personification of Death.
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A.
La Mort
La Mort is the final section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal, in which he explores death as both an existential horror and a possible escape from suffering.
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B.
D’entre les morts
D’entre les morts is a 1954 French crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac that served as the literary basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo.
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C.
La Morte amoureuse
La Morte amoureuse is a 19th-century French fantastical short story by Théophile Gautier that blends romance and the supernatural in the tale of a young priest ensnared by a vampiric femme fatale.
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D.
Le Gibet
Le Gibet is the haunting, tolling-bell-centered middle movement of Maurice Ravel’s piano suite Gaspard de la nuit, renowned for its eerie atmosphere and technical subtlety.
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E.
The Young Man and Death
The Young Man and Death is a symbolist painting by Gustave Moreau that portrays a dramatic, allegorical encounter between a youth and the figure of Death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet
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dramatic ballet ⓘ short ballet ⓘ |
| choreographer | Roland Petit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| choreographerNationality | French ⓘ |
| choreographicStyle |
dramatic
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neo-classical ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | Karinska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| createdForDancer | Jean Babilée NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| duration | short ⓘ |
| ending | suicide of the young man ⓘ |
| genre | expressionist ballet ⓘ |
| historicalContext | post-World War II Paris ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| librettist | Jean Cocteau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Death
NERFINISHED
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young man ⓘ |
| musicArrangementBy | André Girard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicUsed |
Johann Sebastian Bach
NERFINISHED
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Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | fatal encounter with Death ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fusion of theatre and ballet
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iconic role for male dancers ⓘ intense psychological drama ⓘ |
| notableRevivalCompany |
American Ballet Theatre
NERFINISHED
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Bolshoi Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris Opera Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalCompany | Les Ballets des Champs-Élysées NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalFemaleLead | Natalia (Zizi) Jeanmaire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMaleLead | Jean Babilée NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| premiereCity | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1946-06-25 ⓘ |
| premierePlace | Théâtre des Champs-Élysées NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scenarioBy | Jean Cocteau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scenarioWriterNationality | French ⓘ |
| setDesigner | Georges Wakhévitch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Parisian garret ⓘ |
| structure | one-act ballet ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | personification of Death ⓘ |
| theme |
death
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existentialism ⓘ love and betrayal ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | The Young Man and Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Subject: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort Description of subject: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort is a short, dramatic ballet choreographed by Roland Petit to a scenario by Jean Cocteau, depicting a young man's fatal encounter with a personification of Death.
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