Qu’est-ce que la propriété ?
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Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? is a seminal 1840 anarchist treatise by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, famous for the provocative declaration that “property is theft” and its critique of private ownership and economic inequality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T251803 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? Context triple: [Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, originalTitleOfWork, Qu’est-ce que la propriété ?]
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Dieu et mon droit
Dieu et mon droit is the traditional French-language royal motto of the British monarchy, signifying the divine right of the sovereign to rule.
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B.
Château de la Muette
Château de la Muette is a historic former royal residence in Paris that now serves as the headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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C.
Maison Guiette
Maison Guiette is a modernist residential building in Antwerp, Belgium, designed by Le Corbusier and recognized as part of his UNESCO World Heritage-listed works.
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D.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
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E.
Château de Boncourt
Château de Boncourt was a French estate best known as the birthplace of the German Romantic poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? Target entity description: Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? is a seminal 1840 anarchist treatise by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, famous for the provocative declaration that “property is theft” and its critique of private ownership and economic inequality.
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A.
Dieu et mon droit
Dieu et mon droit is the traditional French-language royal motto of the British monarchy, signifying the divine right of the sovereign to rule.
-
B.
Château de la Muette
Château de la Muette is a historic former royal residence in Paris that now serves as the headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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C.
Maison Guiette
Maison Guiette is a modernist residential building in Antwerp, Belgium, designed by Le Corbusier and recognized as part of his UNESCO World Heritage-listed works.
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D.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
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E.
Château de Boncourt
Château de Boncourt was a French estate best known as the birthplace of the German Romantic poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anarchist work
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book ⓘ political treatise ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
demonstrate the injustice of property
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justify a society without exploitative property relations ⓘ |
| author | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ⓘ |
| centralThesis |
economic inequality is structurally produced by property relations
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private property is a form of theft ⓘ property rights enable exploitation of labor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticizes |
capitalist economic relations
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interest ⓘ legal foundations of property ⓘ private ownership of the means of production ⓘ profit ⓘ rent ⓘ |
| discusses |
labor and value
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law and justice ⓘ state and authority ⓘ |
| hasForm | essay ⓘ |
| historicalContext | early 19th-century France ⓘ |
| influenced |
Karl Marx
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anarchist movement ⓘ libertarian socialist thought ⓘ socialist theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Enlightenment political philosophy
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French socialism ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
economic theory
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political philosophy ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
anarchism
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economic inequality ⓘ private property ⓘ property ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| movement |
classical anarchism
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socialism ⓘ |
| notability |
early systematic critique of private property in modern Europe
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foundational text of anarchist political philosophy ⓘ |
| notableQuote | La propriété, c’est le vol ! ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
mutualism
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social anarchism ⓘ |
| proposes |
association of workers
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egalitarian economic relations ⓘ mutualist organization of society ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1840 ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | What is Property? ⓘ |
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Subject: Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? Description of subject: Qu’est-ce que la propriété ? is a seminal 1840 anarchist treatise by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, famous for the provocative declaration that “property is theft” and its critique of private ownership and economic inequality.
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