La Mort
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La Mort is the final section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal, in which he explores death as both an existential horror and a possible escape from suffering.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Mort canonical | 2 |
| La Mort difficile | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5397377 — 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 Mort Context triple: [Les Fleurs du mal, section, La Mort]
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A.
D’entre les morts
D’entre les morts is a 1954 French crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac that served as the literary basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo.
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B.
Porte des Morts passage
Porte des Morts passage is a treacherous strait off the tip of Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula in Lake Michigan, historically notorious for shipwrecks and dangerous sailing conditions.
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C.
Chronique d’une mort annoncée
Chronique d’une mort annoncée is a 1987 film adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," directed by Francesco Rosi.
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D.
L’Enfer
L’Enfer is a 1908 psychological novel by Henri Barbusse that explores voyeurism, isolation, and the human condition through a man’s obsessive observations of others from a hotel room.
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E.
Les Dormeurs
Les Dormeurs is a conceptual art project by French artist Sophie Calle in which she photographed and documented people sleeping in her bed over several days, exploring themes of intimacy, voyeurism, and the boundaries between public and private life.
- 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 Mort Target entity description: La Mort is the final section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal, in which he explores death as both an existential horror and a possible escape from suffering.
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A.
D’entre les morts
D’entre les morts is a 1954 French crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac that served as the literary basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo.
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B.
Porte des Morts passage
Porte des Morts passage is a treacherous strait off the tip of Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula in Lake Michigan, historically notorious for shipwrecks and dangerous sailing conditions.
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C.
Chronique d’une mort annoncée
Chronique d’une mort annoncée is a 1987 film adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," directed by Francesco Rosi.
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D.
L’Enfer
L’Enfer is a 1908 psychological novel by Henri Barbusse that explores voyeurism, isolation, and the human condition through a man’s obsessive observations of others from a hotel room.
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E.
Les Dormeurs
Les Dormeurs is a conceptual art project by French artist Sophie Calle in which she photographed and documented people sleeping in her bed over several days, exploring themes of intimacy, voyeurism, and the boundaries between public and private life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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section of a poetry collection ⓘ |
| associatedMovement |
Modernism
ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ |
| author | Charles Baudelaire ⓘ |
| collection | Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1857 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
death as existential horror
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death as possible escape ⓘ death as possible redemption ⓘ relationship between death and beauty ⓘ relationship between death and the sacred ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
ⓘ
modern poetry ⓘ symbolist poetry ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus |
part of the French literary canon
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widely studied in Baudelaire scholarship ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
considered a culmination of the themes of Les Fleurs du mal
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interpreted as an ambiguous vision of death ⓘ often read as both nihilistic and hopeful ⓘ |
| hasForm | poetry cycle ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
French symbolist poets
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modern French poetry ⓘ |
| hasTitleInEnglish | Death ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| medium | printed book ⓘ |
| originalCollectionTitle | Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| originalPublisherOfCollection | Poulet-Malassis et de Broise ⓘ |
| partOf | Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| positionInWork | final section of Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
La Révolte
ⓘ
linked to:
Révolte
Le Vin ⓘ Spleen et Idéal ⓘ |
| theme |
afterlife
ⓘ
boredom ⓘ death ⓘ despair ⓘ escape from suffering ⓘ existential horror ⓘ hope ⓘ spiritual journey ⓘ suffering ⓘ time and finitude ⓘ transcendence ⓘ |
| workInCollectionPrecededBy |
La Révolte
ⓘ
linked to:
Révolte
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: La Mort Description of subject: La Mort is the final section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal, in which he explores death as both an existential horror and a possible escape from suffering.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Mort