Le Feu
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Le Feu is a seminal anti-war novel by Henri Barbusse that vividly depicts the grim realities of French soldiers’ experiences in the trenches during World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Le Feu canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3373185 — 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 Feu Context triple: [Henri Barbusse, notableWork, Le Feu]
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A.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
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La Sablonière
La Sablonière is one of the small islets within the Les Écréhous reef and island group off the coast of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
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C.
Il fuoco
"Il fuoco" is a 1900 novel by Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, renowned for its decadent style and its thinly veiled portrayal of his passionate affair with actress Eleonora Duse against the backdrop of fin-de-siècle Venice.
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D.
Les Écréhous
Les Écréhous is a small, largely uninhabited group of islets and rocks in the English Channel, lying off the coast of Jersey and known for its wildlife and scenic seascapes.
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E.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
- 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 Feu Target entity description: Le Feu is a seminal anti-war novel by Henri Barbusse that vividly depicts the grim realities of French soldiers’ experiences in the trenches during World War I.
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A.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
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B.
La Sablonière
La Sablonière is one of the small islets within the Les Écréhous reef and island group off the coast of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
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C.
Il fuoco
"Il fuoco" is a 1900 novel by Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, renowned for its decadent style and its thinly veiled portrayal of his passionate affair with actress Eleonora Duse against the backdrop of fin-de-siècle Venice.
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D.
Les Écréhous
Les Écréhous is a small, largely uninhabited group of islets and rocks in the English Channel, lying off the coast of Jersey and known for its wildlife and scenic seascapes.
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E.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti-war novel
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novel ⓘ |
| antiWarStance | explicit ⓘ |
| author | Henri Barbusse ⓘ |
| awarded | Prix Goncourt ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1916 ⓘ |
| basedOn | Henri Barbusse’s own war experiences ⓘ |
| censorshipStatusAtPublication | subject to wartime censorship ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticizes |
military hierarchy
ⓘ
romanticized views of war ⓘ |
| firstPublisherCountry | France ⓘ |
| form | diary-like narrative ⓘ |
| frontDepicted | French front lines ⓘ |
| genre |
anti-war literature
ⓘ
war novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType | French poilus ⓘ |
| historicalContext | First World War French literature ⓘ |
| influenced | later anti-war literature about World War I ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
naturalism
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realism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narratorType | soldier-narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early major anti-war testimony of World War I
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vivid depiction of trench warfare ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Le Feu ⓘ |
| portrays |
French infantry soldiers
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conditions in front-line trenches ⓘ psychological impact of war on soldiers ⓘ |
| portraysEnemy |
German army
ⓘ
linked to:
German Army
|
| publicationYear | 1916 ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
classic of anti-war literature
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seminal World War I novel ⓘ |
| setting |
French trenches
ⓘ
Western Front ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War I ⓘ |
| structure | series of episodic scenes ⓘ |
| subtitle | Journal d’une escouade ⓘ |
| theme |
anti-militarism
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camaraderie among soldiers ⓘ class differences in the army ⓘ horrors of war ⓘ soldiers’ daily life in the trenches ⓘ |
| timeOfAction | 1914–1915 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Input
Subject: Le Feu Description of subject: Le Feu is a seminal anti-war novel by Henri Barbusse that vividly depicts the grim realities of French soldiers’ experiences in the trenches during World War I.
Referenced by (8)
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