Le Voltaire
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Le Voltaire was a 19th-century French newspaper known for its republican, anticlerical stance and its role in serializing major literary works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Le Voltaire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3330082 — 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 Voltaire Context triple: [Nana, firstPublishedIn, Le Voltaire]
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A.
Voltaire
Voltaire was an influential 18th-century French writer, philosopher, and satirist known for his advocacy of reason, civil liberties, and criticism of religious and political authority.
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B.
Voltaire’s Bastards
Voltaire’s Bastards is a non-fiction book by John Ralston Saul that critiques the dominance of rationalist technocracy in modern Western society and its corrosive effects on democracy and human values.
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C.
Éloge de Gournay
Éloge de Gournay is an economic and philosophical essay by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot that praises and expounds the free-trade ideas of his mentor, the French economist Vincent de Gournay.
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D.
Jacques le fataliste et son maître
Jacques le fataliste et son maître is an 18th-century philosophical novel by Denis Diderot that playfully explores fate, free will, and storytelling through the conversations and adventures of a servant and his master.
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E.
Malesherbes
Malesherbes is a commune in north-central France that serves as a terminus of the RER D suburban rail line connecting it to the Paris metropolitan area.
- 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 Voltaire Target entity description: Le Voltaire was a 19th-century French newspaper known for its republican, anticlerical stance and its role in serializing major literary works.
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A.
Voltaire
Voltaire was an influential 18th-century French writer, philosopher, and satirist known for his advocacy of reason, civil liberties, and criticism of religious and political authority.
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B.
Voltaire’s Bastards
Voltaire’s Bastards is a non-fiction book by John Ralston Saul that critiques the dominance of rationalist technocracy in modern Western society and its corrosive effects on democracy and human values.
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C.
Éloge de Gournay
Éloge de Gournay is an economic and philosophical essay by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot that praises and expounds the free-trade ideas of his mentor, the French economist Vincent de Gournay.
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D.
Jacques le fataliste et son maître
Jacques le fataliste et son maître is an 18th-century philosophical novel by Denis Diderot that playfully explores fate, free will, and storytelling through the conversations and adventures of a servant and his master.
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E.
Malesherbes
Malesherbes is a commune in north-central France that serves as a terminus of the RER D suburban rail line connecting it to the Paris metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French newspaper
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newspaper ⓘ |
| circulationArea |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| editorialLine |
opposition to clerical influence in politics
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support for republican institutions ⓘ |
| genre |
literary newspaper
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political newspaper ⓘ |
| hasPart |
editorials
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literary criticism ⓘ political commentary ⓘ serialized novels ⓘ |
| ideology | secularism ⓘ |
| inception | 1878 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| locationOfHeadquarters | Paris ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
French politics
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relations between church and state ⓘ republicanism ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Voltaire ⓘ |
| notableFor |
anticlerical stance
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republican stance ⓘ serialization of literary works ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
anticlerical
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republican ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency | daily newspaper ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Third French Republic
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linked to:
French Third Republic
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How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Le Voltaire Description of subject: Le Voltaire was a 19th-century French newspaper known for its republican, anticlerical stance and its role in serializing major literary works.
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