Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
E1326770
UNEXPLORED
"Bel Ami" is an 1885 realist novel by Guy de Maupassant that follows the ruthless social and sexual rise of Georges Duroy in Parisian high society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bel Ami (film) | 1 |
| Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18467988 — 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: Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant Context triple: [Albert Lewin, adaptedWork, Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant]
-
A.
La Dame aux Camélias (novel)
La Dame aux Camélias is an 1848 romantic novel by Alexandre Dumas fils about the tragic love affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois man, which inspired numerous stage and screen adaptations including Verdi’s opera La Traviata.
-
B.
Hôtel Tassel
Hôtel Tassel is a pioneering Brussels townhouse widely regarded as one of the first and most influential examples of Art Nouveau architecture, designed by Victor Horta in the 1890s.
-
C.
The Seducer’s Diary
The Seducer’s Diary is a famous section of Søren Kierkegaard’s work Either/Or that presents, in literary form, the manipulative love affair of the aesthete Johannes as an exploration of seduction, ethics, and existential choice.
-
D.
Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel)
Thérèse Desqueyroux is a 1927 novel by François Mauriac that portrays a disillusioned woman in provincial France who attempts to escape her stifling marriage and social constraints.
-
E.
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Les Liaisons dangereuses is an 18th-century French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos that explores manipulation, seduction, and moral corruption among the aristocracy on the eve of the French Revolution.
- 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: Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant Target entity description: "Bel Ami" is an 1885 realist novel by Guy de Maupassant that follows the ruthless social and sexual rise of Georges Duroy in Parisian high society.
-
A.
La Dame aux Camélias (novel)
La Dame aux Camélias is an 1848 romantic novel by Alexandre Dumas fils about the tragic love affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois man, which inspired numerous stage and screen adaptations including Verdi’s opera La Traviata.
-
B.
Hôtel Tassel
Hôtel Tassel is a pioneering Brussels townhouse widely regarded as one of the first and most influential examples of Art Nouveau architecture, designed by Victor Horta in the 1890s.
-
C.
The Seducer’s Diary
The Seducer’s Diary is a famous section of Søren Kierkegaard’s work Either/Or that presents, in literary form, the manipulative love affair of the aesthete Johannes as an exploration of seduction, ethics, and existential choice.
-
D.
Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel)
Thérèse Desqueyroux is a 1927 novel by François Mauriac that portrays a disillusioned woman in provincial France who attempts to escape her stifling marriage and social constraints.
-
E.
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Les Liaisons dangereuses is an 18th-century French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos that explores manipulation, seduction, and moral corruption among the aristocracy on the eve of the French Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant