The Child of Pleasure
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The Child of Pleasure is an 1889 decadent novel by Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio that explores aristocratic hedonism, aestheticism, and moral decline in late 19th-century Rome.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Child of Pleasure canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2578604 — 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 Child of Pleasure Context triple: [Il piacere, hasEnglishTitle, The Child of Pleasure]
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The Lady of Pleasure
The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes the excesses and moral corruption of the English aristocracy.
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B.
The Pleased
The Pleased was an indie rock band from San Francisco known for featuring harpist-singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom as a member early in her career.
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C.
De voluptate
De voluptate is a 15th-century philosophical dialogue by Lorenzo Valla that critiques medieval scholasticism and defends an Epicurean-influenced view of pleasure as central to the good life.
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D.
Pleasure Wars
Pleasure Wars is a historical and cultural study by Peter Gay that examines changing Western attitudes toward pleasure, sexuality, and bourgeois life.
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E.
The Gentle Boy
The Gentle Boy is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of religious intolerance and compassion through the relationship between a persecuted Quaker child and his Puritan protectors in colonial New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Child of Pleasure Target entity description: The Child of Pleasure is an 1889 decadent novel by Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio that explores aristocratic hedonism, aestheticism, and moral decline in late 19th-century Rome.
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A.
The Lady of Pleasure
The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes the excesses and moral corruption of the English aristocracy.
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B.
The Pleased
The Pleased was an indie rock band from San Francisco known for featuring harpist-singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom as a member early in her career.
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C.
De voluptate
De voluptate is a 15th-century philosophical dialogue by Lorenzo Valla that critiques medieval scholasticism and defends an Epicurean-influenced view of pleasure as central to the good life.
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D.
Pleasure Wars
Pleasure Wars is a historical and cultural study by Peter Gay that examines changing Western attitudes toward pleasure, sexuality, and bourgeois life.
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E.
The Gentle Boy
The Gentle Boy is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of religious intolerance and compassion through the relationship between a persecuted Quaker child and his Puritan protectors in colonial New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
decadent novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author |
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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surface form:
Gabriele D’Annunzio
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| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| explores |
conflict between morality and pleasure
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cult of beauty ⓘ psychology of desire ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | book ⓘ |
| genre |
aesthetic novel
ⓘ
decadent literature ⓘ psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLength | novel-length work ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Andrea Sperelli ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
aesthete
ⓘ
dandy ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aestheticism
ⓘ
French decadent literature ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Romance languages ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Decadentism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | fin de siècle ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Andrea Sperelli ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of Roman high society
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exploration of decadent aesthetics ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Italian ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Il piacere ⓘ |
| partOf | Gabriele D’Annunzio’s early narrative works ⓘ |
| protagonistSocialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1889 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Rome ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| theme |
aestheticism
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aristocratic hedonism ⓘ art and life ⓘ decadence ⓘ eroticism ⓘ moral decline ⓘ romantic obsession ⓘ social corruption ⓘ |
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