La Main coupée
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La Main coupée is a semi-autobiographical war memoir by Blaise Cendrars recounting his harrowing experiences as a Foreign Legionnaire in World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Main coupée canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13276781 — 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 Main coupée Context triple: [Blaise Cendrars, notableWork, La Main coupée]
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A.
L’Expiation
L’Expiation is a major poem by Victor Hugo, included in his collection *Les Châtiments*, that powerfully denounces Napoleon III and reflects on guilt, punishment, and moral reckoning in French history.
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B.
La Guillotière
La Guillotière is a lively, historically working-class neighborhood in Lyon known for its cultural diversity, dense urban fabric, and central location on the left bank of the Rhône.
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C.
La Rabouilleuse
La Rabouilleuse is a novel by Honoré de Balzac, part of his La Comédie humaine cycle, that explores themes of inheritance, family conflict, and social ambition in post-Napoleonic France.
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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.
Marche au supplice
Marche au supplice is the dramatic fourth movement of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, depicting the protagonist’s opium-induced vision of his own march to the guillotine.
- 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 Main coupée Target entity description: La Main coupée is a semi-autobiographical war memoir by Blaise Cendrars recounting his harrowing experiences as a Foreign Legionnaire in World War I.
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A.
L’Expiation
L’Expiation is a major poem by Victor Hugo, included in his collection *Les Châtiments*, that powerfully denounces Napoleon III and reflects on guilt, punishment, and moral reckoning in French history.
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B.
La Guillotière
La Guillotière is a lively, historically working-class neighborhood in Lyon known for its cultural diversity, dense urban fabric, and central location on the left bank of the Rhône.
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C.
La Rabouilleuse
La Rabouilleuse is a novel by Honoré de Balzac, part of his La Comédie humaine cycle, that explores themes of inheritance, family conflict, and social ambition in post-Napoleonic France.
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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.
Marche au supplice
Marche au supplice is the dramatic fourth movement of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, depicting the protagonist’s opium-induced vision of his own march to the guillotine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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semi-autobiographical work ⓘ war memoir ⓘ |
| author | Blaise Cendrars ⓘ |
| authorNationality |
French
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Swiss ⓘ |
| authorOccupation | writer ⓘ |
| basedOn | Blaise Cendrars' wartime experiences ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts |
combat experience
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life in the French Foreign Legion ⓘ trench warfare ⓘ war trauma ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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war literature ⓘ |
| hasAutobiographicalElement | yes ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
camaraderie among soldiers
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identity ⓘ loss and injury ⓘ memory ⓘ violence of war ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
French Foreign Legion
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World War I ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
semi-autobiographical narrative style
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vivid depiction of World War I combat ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| portrays | Foreign Legionnaire's viewpoint ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Western Front ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War I ⓘ |
| title | La Main coupée ⓘ |
| workOf | Blaise Cendrars ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: La Main coupée Description of subject: La Main coupée is a semi-autobiographical war memoir by Blaise Cendrars recounting his harrowing experiences as a Foreign Legionnaire in World War I.
Referenced by (2)
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