La Jalousie
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La Jalousie is a landmark 1957 experimental novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, noted for its rigorous use of the nouveau roman style and its obsessive, ambiguous exploration of jealousy and perception.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Jalousie canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5593778 — 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 Jalousie Context triple: [Les Éditions de Minuit, publishedWork, La Jalousie]
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A.
A Dream of Jealousy
A Dream of Jealousy is a poem by Seamus Heaney that appears in his acclaimed 1979 collection Field Work.
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B.
L'Effrontée
L'Effrontée is a 1985 French coming-of-age drama film directed by Claude Miller, known for its sensitive portrayal of adolescent loneliness and for featuring an acclaimed early performance by Charlotte Gainsbourg.
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C.
Plaisir d’amour
"Plaisir d’amour" is a classic 18th-century French love song, widely known through numerous interpretations including a popular rendition by Nana Mouskouri.
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D.
The Crimes of Love
The Crimes of Love is a collection of short stories by the Marquis de Sade that blends gothic melodrama with philosophical explorations of desire, morality, and cruelty.
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E.
Le Soupirant
Le Soupirant is the French title of the 1962 French comedy film "The Suitor," directed by Pierre Étaix.
- 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 Jalousie Target entity description: La Jalousie is a landmark 1957 experimental novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, noted for its rigorous use of the nouveau roman style and its obsessive, ambiguous exploration of jealousy and perception.
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A.
A Dream of Jealousy
A Dream of Jealousy is a poem by Seamus Heaney that appears in his acclaimed 1979 collection Field Work.
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B.
L'Effrontée
L'Effrontée is a 1985 French coming-of-age drama film directed by Claude Miller, known for its sensitive portrayal of adolescent loneliness and for featuring an acclaimed early performance by Charlotte Gainsbourg.
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C.
Plaisir d’amour
"Plaisir d’amour" is a classic 18th-century French love song, widely known through numerous interpretations including a popular rendition by Nana Mouskouri.
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D.
The Crimes of Love
The Crimes of Love is a collection of short stories by the Marquis de Sade that blends gothic melodrama with philosophical explorations of desire, morality, and cruelty.
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E.
Le Soupirant
Le Soupirant is the French title of the 1962 French comedy film "The Suitor," directed by Pierre Étaix.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental novel
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nouveau roman ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Alain Robbe-Grillet ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
jealousy
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marital suspicion ⓘ perception ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticalReception | considered a landmark of the nouveau roman ⓘ |
| followedBy | Dans le labyrinthe ⓘ |
| formalCharacteristic |
absence of explicit narrator identification
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ambiguous point of view ⓘ minimal psychological explanation ⓘ nonlinear temporal structure ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental literature
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nouveau roman ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | La Jalousie (stage adaptations) ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFocus |
recurrent observation of the same events
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spatial relations ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Nouveau Roman movement
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linked to:
Nouveau Roman
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| literaryMovement | Nouveau Roman ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
A
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A’s wife ⓘ Franck ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
detailed description of objects
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interior focalization ⓘ limited perspective ⓘ repetition of scenes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambiguous narrative perspective
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experimental treatment of time and repetition ⓘ obsessive focus on visual description ⓘ rigorous use of nouveau roman techniques ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Alain Robbe-Grillet’s early novels ⓘ |
| precededBy | Le Voyeur ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| publisher | Les Éditions de Minuit ⓘ |
| setting |
a colonial banana plantation
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an unnamed tropical country ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
French literature courses
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modernist literature courses ⓘ narratology and theory of the novel ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | Jealousy ⓘ |
| usesMotif |
insects and the natural environment
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shadows and light ⓘ shutters and windows ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: La Jalousie Description of subject: La Jalousie is a landmark 1957 experimental novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, noted for its rigorous use of the nouveau roman style and its obsessive, ambiguous exploration of jealousy and perception.
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