The House of the Cat and the Racket
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The House of the Cat and the Racket is an English title of Honoré de Balzac’s early novella “La Maison du chat-qui-pelote,” a work in his La Comédie humaine cycle that portrays Parisian bourgeois life and the conflicts between art, love, and social convention.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The House of the Cat and the Racket canonical | 3 |
| At the Sign of the Cat and Racket | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12959728 — 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: The House of the Cat and the Racket Context triple: [La Maison du chat-qui-pelote, alsoKnownAs, The House of the Cat and the Racket]
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A.
The Cat Gang
The Cat Gang is a film featuring British actress Anne Heywood, known as one of her notable screen roles.
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B.
The Cat About Town
The Cat About Town is a distinguished, portly, and impeccably dressed feline character from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” known for frequenting gentlemen’s clubs and living a life of refined leisure.
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C.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
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D.
Tale of the Cat
Tale of the Cat is a Grade I-winning Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire known for producing numerous stakes winners in North America.
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E.
The Cat Pack
The Cat Pack is the spirited student cheering section known for passionately supporting the University of New Hampshire Wildcats men’s ice hockey team at home games.
- 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: The House of the Cat and the Racket Target entity description: The House of the Cat and the Racket is an English title of Honoré de Balzac’s early novella “La Maison du chat-qui-pelote,” a work in his La Comédie humaine cycle that portrays Parisian bourgeois life and the conflicts between art, love, and social convention.
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A.
The Cat Gang
The Cat Gang is a film featuring British actress Anne Heywood, known as one of her notable screen roles.
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B.
The Cat About Town
The Cat About Town is a distinguished, portly, and impeccably dressed feline character from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” known for frequenting gentlemen’s clubs and living a life of refined leisure.
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C.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
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D.
Tale of the Cat
Tale of the Cat is a Grade I-winning Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire known for producing numerous stakes winners in North America.
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E.
The Cat Pack
The Cat Pack is the spirited student cheering section known for passionately supporting the University of New Hampshire Wildcats men’s ice hockey team at home games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictionalWork
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literaryWork ⓘ novella ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| belongsToSeries |
Scènes de la vie privée
ⓘ
linked to:
Scènes de la vie privée et publique
|
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| cycle | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| depicts |
conflict between love and duty
ⓘ
constraints of social convention in marriage ⓘ |
| explores | tension between artistic vocation and bourgeois values ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| genre |
novella
ⓘ
realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | French ⓘ |
| hasCentralConflict | artistic aspirations versus bourgeois expectations ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
bourgeois daughter
ⓘ
bourgeois merchant ⓘ young artist ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitleVariant |
The House of the Cat Who Pelts
ⓘ
The House of the Cat and the Racket ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
clash between provincial simplicity and urban sophistication
ⓘ
marriage as social contract ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeMode | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasSettingLocation | a Paris drapery shop ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | early work of Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
French realism
ⓘ
linked to:
French Realist movement
|
| literaryTradition | 19th-century French literature ⓘ |
| mainSetting | Paris ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | domestic life of a Parisian merchant family ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitleMeaning | The House of the Cat Who Pelts ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La Maison du chat-qui-pelote ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| portrays | Parisian bourgeois life ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| theme |
bourgeois life
ⓘ
conflict between art and social convention ⓘ love and marriage ⓘ social class and ambition ⓘ |
| workByAuthor | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| workInCycle | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Input
Subject: The House of the Cat and the Racket Description of subject: The House of the Cat and the Racket is an English title of Honoré de Balzac’s early novella “La Maison du chat-qui-pelote,” a work in his La Comédie humaine cycle that portrays Parisian bourgeois life and the conflicts between art, love, and social convention.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The House of the Cat and the Racket
The House of the Cat and the Racket
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hasEnglishTitleVariant
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The House of the Cat and the Racket
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subject linked to:
shop sign "Au Chat-qui-pelote"