Les Foules
E523717
Les Foules is one of Charles Baudelaire’s poetic prose pieces from *Le Spleen de Paris*, exploring the poet’s mystical communion with urban crowds and the anonymity of city life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Les Foules canonical | 2 |
| Le Foules | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5493832 — 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: Les Foules Context triple: [Le Spleen de Paris, hasPart, Les Foules]
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A.
Fifty Million Frenchmen
Fifty Million Frenchmen is a 1929 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, known for its witty songs and Parisian setting.
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B.
Requetés
The Requetés were the Carlist traditionalist militia in Spain, known for their monarchist and Catholic zeal and for fighting alongside the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War.
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C.
Les Impatients
Les Impatients is an early novel by Algerian writer Assia Djebar that explores themes of female subjectivity, colonial society, and the constraints imposed on women in mid-20th-century Algeria.
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D.
Les Paysans
Les Paysans is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the social and economic conflicts between peasants and landowners in rural post-Revolutionary France, and forms part of his larger cycle La Comédie humaine.
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E.
Les Parisiens
Les Parisiens is the widely used French nickname for Paris Saint-Germain Football Club and its players, emphasizing their identity as representatives of Paris.
- 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: Les Foules Target entity description: Les Foules is one of Charles Baudelaire’s poetic prose pieces from *Le Spleen de Paris*, exploring the poet’s mystical communion with urban crowds and the anonymity of city life.
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A.
Fifty Million Frenchmen
Fifty Million Frenchmen is a 1929 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, known for its witty songs and Parisian setting.
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B.
Requetés
The Requetés were the Carlist traditionalist militia in Spain, known for their monarchist and Catholic zeal and for fighting alongside the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War.
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C.
Les Impatients
Les Impatients is an early novel by Algerian writer Assia Djebar that explores themes of female subjectivity, colonial society, and the constraints imposed on women in mid-20th-century Algeria.
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D.
Les Paysans
Les Paysans is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the social and economic conflicts between peasants and landowners in rural post-Revolutionary France, and forms part of his larger cycle La Comédie humaine.
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E.
Les Parisiens
Les Parisiens is the widely used French nickname for Paris Saint-Germain Football Club and its players, emphasizing their identity as representatives of Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
poetic prose piece
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prose poem ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Le Foules
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linked to:
Les Foules
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| author | Charles Baudelaire ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Baudelaire’s late prose works
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linked to:
Baudelaire’s oeuvre
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| centralConcept |
fusion of self with the crowd
ⓘ
spiritual intoxication in crowds ⓘ |
| centralFigure | poet-observer ⓘ |
| collectionType | petits poèmes en prose ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| form | short prose piece ⓘ |
| genre | prose poetry ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
later reflections on mass society
ⓘ
modern urban literature ⓘ theory of the flâneur ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Decadent movement
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linked to:
Decadentism
Modernity ⓘ Symbolism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | fr ⓘ |
| partOfWork | Le Spleen de Paris ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod |
19th century
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French Second Empire ⓘ
linked to:
Second Empire of France
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| relatedAuthor | Walter Benjamin ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
flânerie
ⓘ
modernity ⓘ urban anonymity ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Le Spleen de Paris ⓘ |
| setting |
modern city
ⓘ
urban streets ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
compressed imagery
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introspective tone ⓘ lyrical prose ⓘ paradoxical statements ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
poet’s relation to society
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psychology of crowds ⓘ |
| theme |
aesthetic of modern life
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anonymity of city life ⓘ empathy and identification ⓘ flâneur figure ⓘ loss of individuality ⓘ modern city ⓘ mystical communion with the crowd ⓘ solitude in the crowd ⓘ urban crowds ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Les Foules Description of subject: Les Foules is one of Charles Baudelaire’s poetic prose pieces from *Le Spleen de Paris*, exploring the poet’s mystical communion with urban crowds and the anonymity of city life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Les Foules