The Guillotine
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"The Guillotine" is a volume from Thomas Carlyle’s historical work "The French Revolution: A History," focusing on the period of mass executions and political terror symbolized by the guillotine.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Guillotine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7243871 — 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 Guillotine Context triple: [The French Revolution: A History, volumeTitle, The Guillotine]
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A.
La Guillotière
La Guillotière is a lively, historically working-class neighborhood in Lyon known for its cultural diversity, dense urban fabric, and central location on the left bank of the Rhône.
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B.
Marche au supplice
Marche au supplice is the dramatic fourth movement of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, depicting the protagonist’s opium-induced vision of his own march to the guillotine.
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C.
Marat/Sade
Marat/Sade is a groundbreaking 1963 play by Peter Weiss, famously staged by director Peter Brook, that blends historical drama and avant-garde theatre to explore revolution, madness, and political violence.
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D.
L’Arrêt de mort
L’Arrêt de mort is a short, experimental 1948 novella by French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot that blends narrative and philosophical reflection on death, absence, and the limits of language.
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E.
The Massacre at Paris
The Massacre at Paris is an Elizabethan history play by Christopher Marlowe dramatizing the violent religious conflicts of late 16th-century France, particularly the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
- 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: The Guillotine Target entity description: "The Guillotine" is a volume from Thomas Carlyle’s historical work "The French Revolution: A History," focusing on the period of mass executions and political terror symbolized by the guillotine.
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A.
La Guillotière
La Guillotière is a lively, historically working-class neighborhood in Lyon known for its cultural diversity, dense urban fabric, and central location on the left bank of the Rhône.
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B.
Marche au supplice
Marche au supplice is the dramatic fourth movement of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, depicting the protagonist’s opium-induced vision of his own march to the guillotine.
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C.
Marat/Sade
Marat/Sade is a groundbreaking 1963 play by Peter Weiss, famously staged by director Peter Brook, that blends historical drama and avant-garde theatre to explore revolution, madness, and political violence.
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D.
L’Arrêt de mort
L’Arrêt de mort is a short, experimental 1948 novella by French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot that blends narrative and philosophical reflection on death, absence, and the limits of language.
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E.
The Massacre at Paris
The Massacre at Paris is an Elizabethan history play by Christopher Marlowe dramatizing the violent religious conflicts of late 16th-century France, particularly the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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volume ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Carlyle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts |
Committee of Public Safety
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public executions by guillotine ⓘ revolutionary tribunals ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
moral consequences of violence
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revolutionary justice ⓘ terror as a political tool ⓘ |
| focusesOnPeriod |
Reign of Terror (French Revolution)
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linked to:
Reign of Terror
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| genre | history ⓘ |
| historicalCoverage | late 18th century France ⓘ |
| isVolumeOf | The French Revolution: A History ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | non-fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
dramatic
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philosophical ⓘ |
| partOf | The French Revolution: A History ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Bastille
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linked to:
Bastille fortress
The Constitution ⓘ |
| subject |
French Revolution
ⓘ
Reign of Terror ⓘ mass executions ⓘ political terror ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
state violence
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the guillotine as an instrument of execution ⓘ |
| workByAuthor | The French Revolution: A History ⓘ |
| workInSeries | volume of a three-volume history ⓘ |
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Subject: The Guillotine Description of subject: "The Guillotine" is a volume from Thomas Carlyle’s historical work "The French Revolution: A History," focusing on the period of mass executions and political terror symbolized by the guillotine.
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