Le Poison
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Le Poison is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, featured in his collection "Les Fleurs du mal," that explores themes of intoxication, desire, and destructive passion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Le Poison canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6240643 — 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 Poison Context triple: [Jeanne Duval, inspiredWork, Le Poison]
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A.
Le Soupirant
Le Soupirant is the French title of the 1962 French comedy film "The Suitor," directed by Pierre Étaix.
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B.
La Jalousie
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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C.
Le Feu
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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D.
La Mort
La Mort is the final section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal, in which he explores death as both an existential horror and a possible escape from suffering.
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E.
Une Charogne
"Une Charogne" is a famous poem by Charles Baudelaire that starkly juxtaposes the image of a decaying corpse with reflections on beauty, love, and the transience of life.
- 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 Poison Target entity description: Le Poison is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, featured in his collection "Les Fleurs du mal," that explores themes of intoxication, desire, and destructive passion.
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A.
Le Soupirant
Le Soupirant is the French title of the 1962 French comedy film "The Suitor," directed by Pierre Étaix.
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B.
La Jalousie
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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C.
Le Feu
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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D.
La Mort
La Mort is the final section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal, in which he explores death as both an existential horror and a possible escape from suffering.
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E.
Une Charogne
"Une Charogne" is a famous poem by Charles Baudelaire that starkly juxtaposes the image of a decaying corpse with reflections on beauty, love, and the transience of life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Charles Baudelaire ⓘ |
| centralMotif |
love as poison
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woman as intoxicant ⓘ |
| collection | Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Charles Baudelaire ⓘ |
| explores |
ambivalence of desire
ⓘ
relationship between pleasure and destruction ⓘ self-destruction through passion ⓘ |
| form | rhymed verse ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
alcohol
ⓘ
female lover ⓘ narcotics ⓘ |
| imagery |
drug-like love
ⓘ
poison ⓘ wine ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| includedIn | first edition of Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Romanticism ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Modernity
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Symbolism ⓘ |
| meter | alexandrine ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fusion of erotic and morbid elements
ⓘ
intense sensual imagery ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Le Poison ⓘ |
| partOf | French poetic canon ⓘ |
| period | 19th century literature ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1857 ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Les Fleurs du mal ⓘ |
| structure | stanzaic ⓘ |
| theme |
addiction
ⓘ
death drive ⓘ desire ⓘ destructive passion ⓘ eroticism ⓘ escape from reality ⓘ intoxication ⓘ moral decay ⓘ sin ⓘ suffering ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| tone |
dark
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ sensual ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Le Poison Description of subject: Le Poison is a poem by Charles Baudelaire, featured in his collection "Les Fleurs du mal," that explores themes of intoxication, desire, and destructive passion.
Referenced by (2)
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