"La Belle Zoraïde"
E340874
"La Belle Zoraïde" is a short story by Kate Chopin that explores themes of love, race, and maternal loss in Creole New Orleans society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| "La Belle Zoraïde" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3249827 — 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 Belle Zoraïde" Context triple: [Bayou Folk, notableStory, "La Belle Zoraïde"]
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A.
Le Rondinelle
Le Rondinelle is the traditional nickname of Italian football club Brescia Calcio, referring to the team and its players.
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B.
Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal
Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal is a French Revolutionary-era rescue opera by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly that tells the story of a devoted wife who disguises herself as a man to save her unjustly imprisoned husband.
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C.
Gaspard de la nuit
Gaspard de la nuit is a notoriously difficult three-movement piano suite by Maurice Ravel, inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s dark, fantastical prose poems.
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D.
Madame Merle
Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
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E.
Ruy Blas
Ruy Blas is a Romantic drama play by Victor Hugo that tells the tragic story of a noble-hearted servant who rises to power in the Spanish court through deception and unrequited love.
- 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 Belle Zoraïde" Target entity description: "La Belle Zoraïde" is a short story by Kate Chopin that explores themes of love, race, and maternal loss in Creole New Orleans society.
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A.
Le Rondinelle
Le Rondinelle is the traditional nickname of Italian football club Brescia Calcio, referring to the team and its players.
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B.
Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal
Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal is a French Revolutionary-era rescue opera by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly that tells the story of a devoted wife who disguises herself as a man to save her unjustly imprisoned husband.
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C.
Gaspard de la nuit
Gaspard de la nuit is a notoriously difficult three-movement piano suite by Maurice Ravel, inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s dark, fantastical prose poems.
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D.
Madame Merle
Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
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E.
Ruy Blas
Ruy Blas is a Romantic drama play by Victor Hugo that tells the tragic story of a noble-hearted servant who rises to power in the Spanish court through deception and unrequited love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Kate Chopin ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
madness
ⓘ
romantic idealization ⓘ storytelling within a story ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| explores |
intersections of race and gender
ⓘ
power relations between mistress and enslaved woman ⓘ psychological trauma of maternal separation ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
La Belle Zoraïde’s child
ⓘ
Madame Delisle ⓘ M’sieur Ambroise ⓘ Zoraïde ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
regionalist fiction ⓘ short fiction ⓘ |
| hasCriticalDiscussionOn |
Creole racial classifications
ⓘ
maternal deprivation in slavery ⓘ representation of Black and mixed-race women ⓘ sentimental and realist narrative strategies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American realism
ⓘ
linked to:
Realism
local color writing ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | framed narrative ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorOeuvre | Kate Chopin’s New Orleans and Creole stories ⓘ |
| protagonist | Zoraïde ⓘ |
| protagonistEthnicity | mixed-race woman ⓘ |
| protagonistSocialStatus | enslaved woman ⓘ |
| setInSociety | Creole slaveholding society ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| settingLocation | New Orleans ⓘ |
| settingRegion | Creole New Orleans ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
African American studies courses
ⓘ
American literature courses ⓘ postcolonial literature courses ⓘ women’s literature courses ⓘ |
| theme |
Creole society
ⓘ
love ⓘ maternal loss ⓘ motherhood ⓘ race ⓘ slavery ⓘ social hierarchy ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | antebellum South ⓘ |
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Subject: "La Belle Zoraïde" Description of subject: "La Belle Zoraïde" is a short story by Kate Chopin that explores themes of love, race, and maternal loss in Creole New Orleans society.
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