peau de chagrin
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Peau de chagrin is the magical, wish-granting piece of shagreen leather at the center of Honoré de Balzac’s novel, which shrinks with each fulfilled desire to symbolize the gradual consumption of life itself.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| peau de chagrin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12884133 — 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: peau de chagrin Context triple: [Raphaël de Valentin, associatedObject, peau de chagrin]
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A.
Peau d’Âne
Peau d’Âne is a classic French fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a princess who escapes her father’s incestuous intentions by disguising herself in a magical donkey skin.
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B.
Fié Gris
Fié Gris is a rare, aromatic pink-skinned mutation of Sauvignon Blanc traditionally grown in France’s Loire Valley and used to produce distinctive, richly flavored white wines.
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C.
Charmes
Charmes is a 1922 poetry collection by French symbolist writer Paul Valéry, noted for its intricate, musical verse and philosophical depth.
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D.
La Botte
La Botte is a small locality (frazione) within the municipality of Guidonia Montecelio in the Lazio region of central Italy.
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E.
Le Guignon
Le Guignon is a poem by French writer Charles Baudelaire, included among his early poetic works.
- 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: peau de chagrin Target entity description: Peau de chagrin is the magical, wish-granting piece of shagreen leather at the center of Honoré de Balzac’s novel, which shrinks with each fulfilled desire to symbolize the gradual consumption of life itself.
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A.
Peau d’Âne
Peau d’Âne is a classic French fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a princess who escapes her father’s incestuous intentions by disguising herself in a magical donkey skin.
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B.
Fié Gris
Fié Gris is a rare, aromatic pink-skinned mutation of Sauvignon Blanc traditionally grown in France’s Loire Valley and used to produce distinctive, richly flavored white wines.
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C.
Charmes
Charmes is a 1922 poetry collection by French symbolist writer Paul Valéry, noted for its intricate, musical verse and philosophical depth.
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D.
La Botte
La Botte is a small locality (frazione) within the municipality of Guidonia Montecelio in the Lazio region of central Italy.
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E.
Le Guignon
Le Guignon is a poem by French writer Charles Baudelaire, included among his early poetic works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional magical object
ⓘ
literary artifact ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
La Peau de chagrin
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The Wild Ass's Skin ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
bargain-like pact without explicit devil
ⓘ
consumption and exhaustion ⓘ desire ⓘ free will and determinism ⓘ mortality ⓘ |
| comparedTo |
Faustian bargains
ⓘ
The Monkey's Paw ⓘ
linked to:
The Monkey’s Paw
|
| createdByAuthor | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| effectOfUse |
shortens the owner's lifespan
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shrinks with each granted wish ⓘ |
| firstAppearsIn |
La Peau de chagrin (1831)
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linked to:
La Peau de chagrin
|
| genreContext | French realist literature with fantastic elements ⓘ |
| grants |
desires
ⓘ
wishes ⓘ |
| hasCondition | cannot be stretched or altered without losing power ⓘ |
| hasLimitation |
size decreases irreversibly
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when fully consumed, the owner dies ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
magical
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shrinks when wishes are fulfilled ⓘ wish-granting ⓘ |
| hasTitleMeaning |
shagreen skin
ⓘ
wild ass's skin ⓘ |
| influenced | later literary treatments of wish-granting objects ⓘ |
| isCentralMotifOf | La Peau de chagrin ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| locatedInFiction | Paris ⓘ |
| material | shagreen leather ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
drives the plot of Balzac's novel
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tests the protagonist's moral choices ⓘ |
| ownedByCharacter | Raphaël de Valentin ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
fatalism
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finite vital energy ⓘ gradual consumption of life ⓘ self-destruction through excess desire ⓘ the cost of desire ⓘ |
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Subject: peau de chagrin Description of subject: Peau de chagrin is the magical, wish-granting piece of shagreen leather at the center of Honoré de Balzac’s novel, which shrinks with each fulfilled desire to symbolize the gradual consumption of life itself.
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