Scènes de la vie politique
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Scènes de la vie politique is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories focused on political life and power in 19th-century France.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scènes de la vie politique canonical | 5 |
| Le Député d’Arcis | 2 |
| Scènes de la vie politique (cycle) | 1 |
| Scènes de la vie privée | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505525 — 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: Scènes de la vie politique Context triple: [Honoré de Balzac, hasPart, Scènes de la vie politique]
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A.
Drôle de guerre
Drôle de guerre is the term for the early phase of World War II on the Western Front marked by little active fighting despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
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B.
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.
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C.
Le Coup d’État permanent
Le Coup d’État permanent is a political essay by François Mitterrand that sharply criticizes France’s Fifth Republic and the presidential power structure established by Charles de Gaulle.
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D.
July Days
July Days was a brief but intense period of armed demonstrations and political unrest in Petrograd in July 1917 that exposed the weakness of the Russian Provisional Government and boosted Bolshevik influence ahead of the October Revolution.
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E.
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.
- 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: Scènes de la vie politique Target entity description: Scènes de la vie politique is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories focused on political life and power in 19th-century France.
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A.
Drôle de guerre
Drôle de guerre is the term for the early phase of World War II on the Western Front marked by little active fighting despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
-
B.
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.
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C.
Le Coup d’État permanent
Le Coup d’État permanent is a political essay by François Mitterrand that sharply criticizes France’s Fifth Republic and the presidential power structure established by Charles de Gaulle.
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D.
July Days
July Days was a brief but intense period of armed demonstrations and political unrest in Petrograd in July 1917 that exposed the weakness of the Russian Provisional Government and boosted Bolshevik influence ahead of the October Revolution.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary cycle section
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part of La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| depicts | French political life in the Restoration and July Monarchy eras ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
ambition in politics
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political careers ⓘ political institutions ⓘ social hierarchy ⓘ struggles for power ⓘ |
| genre |
political fiction
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realist literature ⓘ |
| hasPart |
novels
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short stories ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Realism ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
19th-century France
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political life ⓘ power ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
La Comédie humaine
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surface form:
Balzac’s La Comédie humaine sections
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| setInPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| setInPlace | France ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Scènes de la vie politique Description of subject: Scènes de la vie politique is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories focused on political life and power in 19th-century France.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Scènes de la vie privée
La Comédie humaine portrays French society after the fall of Napoleon
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hasPart
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Scènes de la vie politique
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subject surface form:
La Comédie humaine
subject surface form:
Vautrin
this entity surface form:
Le Député d’Arcis
this entity surface form:
Scènes de la vie politique (cycle)
this entity surface form:
Le Député d’Arcis