Les Chouans
E305306
Les Chouans is a historical novel by Honoré de Balzac, set during the French Revolution and depicting royalist insurgents in Brittany.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Les Chouans canonical | 2 |
| Chouans! | 1 |
| Les Chouans (film) | 1 |
| Les Chouans (television adaptation) | 1 |
| Les Chouans ou la Bretagne en 1799 | 1 |
| Ninety-Three | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2854688 — 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: Les Chouans Context triple: [Scènes de la vie militaire, hasPart, Les Chouans]
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A.
Les Genevrières
Les Genevrières is a renowned Premier Cru vineyard in the Meursault appellation of Burgundy, celebrated for producing elegant, mineral-driven Chardonnay wines.
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B.
Les Cent-Jours
Les Cent-Jours refers to the brief 1815 period when Napoleon Bonaparte returned from exile, regained power in France, and ultimately fell after the Battle of Waterloo.
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C.
La Résistance de 1814
La Résistance de 1814 is a major 19th-century French sculptural work by Antoine Étex commemorating France’s defense against the Allied invasion during the 1814 campaign.
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D.
La Chêneraie
La Chêneraie is a residential neighborhood within the municipality of Chêne-Bougeries in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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E.
Le Quatorze Juillet
Le Quatorze Juillet is the French national holiday celebrated on July 14, commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and symbolizing the birth of the French Republic.
- 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: Les Chouans Target entity description: Les Chouans is a historical novel by Honoré de Balzac, set during the French Revolution and depicting royalist insurgents in Brittany.
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A.
Les Genevrières
Les Genevrières is a renowned Premier Cru vineyard in the Meursault appellation of Burgundy, celebrated for producing elegant, mineral-driven Chardonnay wines.
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B.
Les Cent-Jours
Les Cent-Jours refers to the brief 1815 period when Napoleon Bonaparte returned from exile, regained power in France, and ultimately fell after the Battle of Waterloo.
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C.
La Résistance de 1814
La Résistance de 1814 is a major 19th-century French sculptural work by Antoine Étex commemorating France’s defense against the Allied invasion during the 1814 campaign.
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D.
La Chêneraie
La Chêneraie is a residential neighborhood within the municipality of Chêne-Bougeries in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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E.
Le Quatorze Juillet
Le Quatorze Juillet is the French national holiday celebrated on July 14, commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and symbolizing the birth of the French Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| belongsTo | French literature ⓘ |
| containsCharacterType |
peasant insurgent
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republican agent ⓘ royalist noble ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| cycleWithinLaComédieHumaine | Scènes de la vie militaire ⓘ |
| depicts |
conflict between royalists and republicans
ⓘ
royalist insurgents in Brittany ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1829 ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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political novel ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Les Chouans
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Les Chouans (film)
Les Chouans self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Les Chouans (television adaptation)
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| hasInfluenceOn | development of the historical novel in French literature ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
military fiction
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romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
espionage and surveillance
ⓘ
monarchy vs. republic ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Restoration France
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surface form:
post-Revolutionary France
|
| historicalEventDepicted |
Vendée uprising
ⓘ
surface form:
Chouan uprising in Brittany
|
| languageStyle | realist ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Corentin
ⓘ
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot ⓘ
surface form:
Hulot
Marie de Verneuil ⓘ Marquis de Montauran ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
civil war
ⓘ
love and betrayal ⓘ political conflict ⓘ royalist insurgency ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Balzac's earliest major novels
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detailed portrayal of counter-revolutionary movements ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Les Chouans
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Les Chouans ou la Bretagne en 1799
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| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| publisher | Werdet ⓘ |
| series | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| setInYear | 1799 ⓘ |
| settingCountry | France ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Brittany ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Chouannerie
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French Revolution ⓘ |
| timeOfAction | late 18th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Les Chouans Description of subject: Les Chouans is a historical novel by Honoré de Balzac, set during the French Revolution and depicting royalist insurgents in Brittany.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ninety-Three
this entity surface form:
Chouans!
this entity surface form:
Les Chouans ou la Bretagne en 1799
this entity surface form:
Les Chouans (film)
this entity surface form:
Les Chouans (television adaptation)