Désirée’s Baby
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Désirée’s Baby is a short story by Kate Chopin that explores themes of race, identity, and tragic irony in antebellum Louisiana.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Désirée’s Baby canonical | 6 |
| "Désirée’s Baby" | 1 |
| Désirée’s Baby (short story) | 1 |
| Désirée’s baby | 1 |
| Kate Chopin’s Louisiana stories | 1 |
| Kate Chopin’s regional fiction | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T545193 — 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: Désirée’s Baby Context triple: [Kate Chopin, notableWork, Désirée’s Baby]
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A.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
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B.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a seminal 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston that follows the life and self-discovery of Janie Crawford in the early 20th-century American South.
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C.
The Awakening
The Awakening is an 1899 novel by Kate Chopin that follows a married woman’s struggle for independence and self-discovery in the restrictive social climate of late 19th-century American society.
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D.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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E.
Tar Baby
"Tar Baby" is a 1981 novel by Toni Morrison that explores race, class, identity, and desire through the complex relationships between a Black fashion model and a mysterious drifter on a Caribbean island.
- 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: Désirée’s Baby Target entity description: Désirée’s Baby is a short story by Kate Chopin that explores themes of race, identity, and tragic irony in antebellum Louisiana.
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A.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
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B.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a seminal 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston that follows the life and self-discovery of Janie Crawford in the early 20th-century American South.
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C.
The Awakening
The Awakening is an 1899 novel by Kate Chopin that follows a married woman’s struggle for independence and self-discovery in the restrictive social climate of late 19th-century American society.
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D.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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E.
Tar Baby
"Tar Baby" is a 1981 novel by Toni Morrison that explores race, class, identity, and desire through the complex relationships between a Black fashion model and a mysterious drifter on a Caribbean island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| antagonist | Armand Aubigny ⓘ |
| author | Kate Chopin ⓘ |
| centralConflict |
identity and ancestry
ⓘ
racial prejudice within marriage ⓘ |
| containsCharacterType |
enslaved people
ⓘ
slave owner ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| exploresIssue |
hypocrisy of racist ideology
ⓘ
maternal love ⓘ patriarchal power dynamics ⓘ social construction of race ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | magazine publication ⓘ |
| genre |
realist fiction
ⓘ
short fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Realism
ⓘ
surface form:
American realism
|
| literarySignificance |
frequently anthologized American short story
ⓘ
important work in Kate Chopin’s oeuvre ⓘ important work in studies of race in American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Armand Aubigny
ⓘ
Désirée ⓘ Désirée’s Baby self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Désirée’s baby
Madame Valmondé ⓘ Monsieur Valmondé ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrator ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | omniscient narration ⓘ |
| plotDevice |
dramatic irony
ⓘ
twist ending ⓘ |
| protagonist | Désirée ⓘ |
| settingInstitution | plantation ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Louisiana ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | antebellum era ⓘ |
| settingRegion |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
|
| settingSocialContext | slaveholding plantation society ⓘ |
| theme |
appearance versus reality
ⓘ
family ⓘ gender roles ⓘ identity ⓘ marriage ⓘ miscegenation ⓘ race ⓘ racial identity ⓘ racism ⓘ slavery ⓘ social prejudice ⓘ tragic irony ⓘ |
| workOf | Kate Chopin ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Désirée’s Baby Description of subject: Désirée’s Baby is a short story by Kate Chopin that explores themes of race, identity, and tragic irony in antebellum Louisiana.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Désirée’s baby
this entity surface form:
"Désirée’s Baby"
this entity surface form:
Kate Chopin’s regional fiction
this entity surface form:
Kate Chopin’s Louisiana stories
this entity surface form:
Désirée’s Baby (short story)