La Messe de l’athée
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La Messe de l’athée is a short story by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his La Comédie humaine cycle, depicting Parisian life through a poignant tale of faith, skepticism, and human devotion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Messe de l’athée canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3111095 — 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 Messe de l’athée Context triple: [Scènes de la vie parisienne, hasPart, La Messe de l’athée]
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A.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
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B.
Chaise cassée
Chaise cassée is the French title of the monumental Broken Chair sculpture, a giant wooden chair with a broken leg symbolizing opposition to land mines and armed violence, located in Geneva.
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C.
Le Curé de Tours
Le Curé de Tours is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intrigues, provincial politics, and clerical rivalries in a small French town.
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D.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
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E.
La Recherche de l’absolu
La Recherche de l’absolu is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores obsession, alchemy, and the destructive pursuit of scientific perfection within a bourgeois family.
- 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 Messe de l’athée Target entity description: La Messe de l’athée is a short story by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his La Comédie humaine cycle, depicting Parisian life through a poignant tale of faith, skepticism, and human devotion.
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A.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
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B.
Chaise cassée
Chaise cassée is the French title of the monumental Broken Chair sculpture, a giant wooden chair with a broken leg symbolizing opposition to land mines and armed violence, located in Geneva.
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C.
Le Curé de Tours
Le Curé de Tours is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intrigues, provincial politics, and clerical rivalries in a small French town.
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D.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
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E.
La Recherche de l’absolu
La Recherche de l’absolu is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores obsession, alchemy, and the destructive pursuit of scientific perfection within a bourgeois family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| centuryOfPublication | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| cycle | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| depicts | Parisian life ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| genre |
realist fiction
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | French ⓘ |
| hasOriginalTitle | La Messe de l’athée self-link ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
French Realist movement
ⓘ
surface form:
French realism
|
| literaryTradition | French literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
faith
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ human devotion ⓘ religion ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ skepticism ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| setIn | Paris ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: La Messe de l’athée Description of subject: La Messe de l’athée is a short story by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his La Comédie humaine cycle, depicting Parisian life through a poignant tale of faith, skepticism, and human devotion.
Referenced by (3)
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