Le Cygne
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"Le Cygne" is a celebrated poem by Charles Baudelaire, best known for its themes of exile, loss, and modern urban transformation, included in his collection "Les Fleurs du mal."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Le Cygne canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9965631 — 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: Le Cygne Context triple: [Poésies, hasPart, Le Cygne]
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A.
Le Cygne
Le Cygne is a historic guildhouse and notable restaurant located on Brussels’ Grand Place, known for its ornate façade and cultural significance.
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B.
The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan is a famous solo ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns’ music, renowned as Anna Pavlova’s signature role and an iconic symbol of classical ballet.
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C.
Le ballet
"Le ballet" is a popular French pop ballad by Canadian singer Céline Dion, featured on her 1995 album "D'eux," the best-selling French-language album of all time.
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D.
Swan Lake
Swan Lake is a renowned classical ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, telling the tragic love story of Prince Siegfried and the enchanted swan princess Odette.
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E.
White Swan
The "White Swan" is the elegant, white Baroque-style Kaunas Town Hall in Lithuania, renowned for its slender tower and historic role as a civic landmark.
- 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: Le Cygne Target entity description: "Le Cygne" is a celebrated poem by Charles Baudelaire, best known for its themes of exile, loss, and modern urban transformation, included in his collection "Les Fleurs du mal."
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A.
Le Cygne
Le Cygne is a historic guildhouse and notable restaurant located on Brussels’ Grand Place, known for its ornate façade and cultural significance.
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B.
The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan is a famous solo ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns’ music, renowned as Anna Pavlova’s signature role and an iconic symbol of classical ballet.
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C.
Le ballet
"Le ballet" is a popular French pop ballad by Canadian singer Céline Dion, featured on her 1995 album "D'eux," the best-selling French-language album of all time.
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D.
Swan Lake
Swan Lake is a renowned classical ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, telling the tragic love story of Prince Siegfried and the enchanted swan princess Odette.
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E.
White Swan
The "White Swan" is the elegant, white Baroque-style Kaunas Town Hall in Lithuania, renowned for its slender tower and historic role as a civic landmark.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Charles Baudelaire ⓘ |
| belongsToCanon | French poetry canon ⓘ |
| collectionSection | Tableaux parisiens ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Andromache
ⓘ
a swan ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCollection | Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | widely studied by literary critics ⓘ |
| hasForm | stanzaic poem ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
modernist poetry
ⓘ
urban literature ⓘ |
| includedIn | standard French literature curricula ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Modernity
ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| meter | French alexandrine ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of modern urban alienation
ⓘ
reflection on Haussmannization of Paris ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Le Cygne ⓘ |
| partOf | Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| publicationEra |
Second French Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Second Empire of France
|
| rhymeScheme | regular rhyme scheme ⓘ |
| setting |
Paris
ⓘ
modern city ⓘ |
| subject |
irreversible change
ⓘ
memory of old Paris ⓘ suffering of exiles ⓘ |
| symbolUses |
exiled figures
ⓘ
ruined city ⓘ swan ⓘ |
| theme |
displacement
ⓘ
exile ⓘ loss ⓘ melancholy ⓘ memory ⓘ modern city ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ ruins ⓘ urban transformation ⓘ |
| workOf | Charles Baudelaire ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Le Cygne Description of subject: "Le Cygne" is a celebrated poem by Charles Baudelaire, best known for its themes of exile, loss, and modern urban transformation, included in his collection "Les Fleurs du mal."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.