Boule de Suif
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Boule de Suif is a classic short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant that portrays a group of travelers during the Franco-Prussian War and explores themes of hypocrisy, class prejudice, and sacrifice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boule de Suif canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9233667 — 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: Boule de Suif Context triple: [Guy de Maupassant, notableWork, Boule de Suif]
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A.
La Fille de Madame Angot
La Fille de Madame Angot is a popular 1872 opéra-comique by Charles Lecocq, known for its witty libretto and lively score set during the French Revolutionary era.
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B.
La Femme du boulanger
La Femme du boulanger is a classic 1938 French film, written and directed by Marcel Pagnol, that blends gentle comedy and rural drama in the story of a village baker whose wife runs away, causing him to stop baking and throwing the community into turmoil.
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C.
Le Gâteau
Le Gâteau is one of the short prose poems in Charles Baudelaire’s collection *Le Spleen de Paris*, exemplifying his exploration of modern urban life and existential melancholy.
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D.
Le Pâté
Le Pâté is a small, uninhabited islet in the Îles des Saintes archipelago of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.
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E.
La Bonne Mère
La Bonne Mère is the affectionate local nickname for Marseille’s hilltop basilica Notre-Dame de la Garde, a major Catholic sanctuary and emblematic symbol of the city watching over its harbor.
- 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: Boule de Suif Target entity description: Boule de Suif is a classic short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant that portrays a group of travelers during the Franco-Prussian War and explores themes of hypocrisy, class prejudice, and sacrifice.
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A.
La Fille de Madame Angot
La Fille de Madame Angot is a popular 1872 opéra-comique by Charles Lecocq, known for its witty libretto and lively score set during the French Revolutionary era.
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B.
La Femme du boulanger
La Femme du boulanger is a classic 1938 French film, written and directed by Marcel Pagnol, that blends gentle comedy and rural drama in the story of a village baker whose wife runs away, causing him to stop baking and throwing the community into turmoil.
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C.
Le Gâteau
Le Gâteau is one of the short prose poems in Charles Baudelaire’s collection *Le Spleen de Paris*, exemplifying his exploration of modern urban life and existential melancholy.
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D.
Le Pâté
Le Pâté is a small, uninhabited islet in the Îles des Saintes archipelago of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.
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E.
La Bonne Mère
La Bonne Mère is the affectionate local nickname for Marseille’s hilltop basilica Notre-Dame de la Garde, a major Catholic sanctuary and emblematic symbol of the city watching over its harbor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| approximateLength | novella-length short story ⓘ |
| author | Guy de Maupassant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictType | civilian versus occupying army ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| featuresEvent | Prussian occupation of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresLocation |
Le Havre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rouen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresMedium | diligence (stagecoach) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1880 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Les Soirées de Médan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
realist fiction
ⓘ
social criticism ⓘ war fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
ⓘ
stage adaptations ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
later war literature
ⓘ
naturalist short stories ⓘ |
| includedIn | French school curricula ⓘ |
| includesCharacterType |
aristocrats
ⓘ
bourgeois merchants ⓘ democratic republican ⓘ nuns ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
naturalism
ⓘ
realism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Boule de Suif NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class prejudice
ⓘ
hypocrisy ⓘ patriotism ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ sexual morality ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of bourgeois morality
ⓘ
portrayal of social hypocrisy during war ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Boule de Suif NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | French literature canon ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | prostitute ⓘ |
| settingCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Franco-Prussian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | Ball of Fat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Boule de Suif Description of subject: Boule de Suif is a classic short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant that portrays a group of travelers during the Franco-Prussian War and explores themes of hypocrisy, class prejudice, and sacrifice.
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