La Parure
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La Parure is a famous short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores themes of vanity, social class, and the consequences of pride through the misfortunes of a woman who borrows a seemingly expensive necklace.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| French title: "La Parure" | 1 |
| La Parure canonical | 1 |
| The Necklace | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9233672 — 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 Parure Context triple: [Guy de Maupassant, notableWork, La Parure]
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A.
Le Spectre de la rose
Le Spectre de la rose is a celebrated early 20th-century ballet, choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Carl Maria von Weber, renowned for its ethereal style and iconic male role originally danced by Vaslav Nijinsky.
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B.
Le Soupirant
Le Soupirant is the French title of the 1962 French comedy film "The Suitor," directed by Pierre Étaix.
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C.
Le Poison
Le Poison is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, featured in his collection "Les Fleurs du mal," that explores themes of intoxication, desire, and destructive passion.
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D.
Mademoiselle Blanche
Mademoiselle Blanche is a cunning, fortune-seeking French adventuress in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "The Gambler," known for manipulating wealthy men to secure her social and financial ambitions.
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E.
La Chevelure
La Chevelure is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, celebrated for its sensual evocation of a lover’s hair and often associated with his muse Jeanne Duval.
- 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 Parure Target entity description: La Parure is a famous short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores themes of vanity, social class, and the consequences of pride through the misfortunes of a woman who borrows a seemingly expensive necklace.
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A.
Le Spectre de la rose
Le Spectre de la rose is a celebrated early 20th-century ballet, choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Carl Maria von Weber, renowned for its ethereal style and iconic male role originally danced by Vaslav Nijinsky.
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B.
Le Soupirant
Le Soupirant is the French title of the 1962 French comedy film "The Suitor," directed by Pierre Étaix.
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C.
Le Poison
Le Poison is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, featured in his collection "Les Fleurs du mal," that explores themes of intoxication, desire, and destructive passion.
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D.
Mademoiselle Blanche
Mademoiselle Blanche is a cunning, fortune-seeking French adventuress in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "The Gambler," known for manipulating wealthy men to secure her social and financial ambitions.
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E.
La Chevelure
La Chevelure is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, celebrated for its sensual evocation of a lover’s hair and often associated with his muse Jeanne Duval.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| alternateTitle |
The Necklace
ⓘ
linked to:
La Parure
|
| author | Guy de Maupassant ⓘ |
| centralConflict | desire for higher social status versus economic reality ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | public domain in many countries ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1884 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Le Gaulois ⓘ |
| genre |
realist fiction
ⓘ
short fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
ⓘ
radio adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| includedIn | various collections of Maupassant's short stories ⓘ |
| influenced | later short stories about irony and social ambition ⓘ |
| languageTitle |
English title: "The Necklace"
ⓘ
French title: "La Parure" ⓘ
linked to:
La Parure
|
| literaryDevice |
foreshadowing
ⓘ
situational irony ⓘ symbolism of the necklace ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Madame Forestier
ⓘ
Mathilde Loisel ⓘ Monsieur Loisel ⓘ |
| moral |
honesty could have prevented years of suffering
ⓘ
obsession with appearances can lead to ruin ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of bourgeois values
ⓘ
ironic twist ending ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalMedium | newspaper publication ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A woman borrows a necklace to appear wealthy at a ball, loses it, replaces it with an expensive copy, and spends years in hardship repaying the debt, only to learn the original necklace was imitation jewelry. ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait | dissatisfaction with middle-class life ⓘ |
| publicationForm | serial newspaper story ⓘ |
| settingCountry | France ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
French literature courses
ⓘ
world literature curricula ⓘ |
| theme |
appearance versus reality
ⓘ
consequences of debt ⓘ materialism ⓘ pride ⓘ social class ⓘ vanity ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: La Parure Description of subject: La Parure is a famous short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores themes of vanity, social class, and the consequences of pride through the misfortunes of a woman who borrows a seemingly expensive necklace.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Parure
linked to: La Parure