L’Arrêt de mort
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L’Arrêt de mort is a short, experimental 1948 novella by French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot that blends narrative and philosophical reflection on death, absence, and the limits of language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| L’Arrêt de mort canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7168705 — 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: L’Arrêt de mort Context triple: [Maurice Blanchot, wrote, L’Arrêt de mort]
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A.
Chronique d’une mort annoncée
Chronique d’une mort annoncée is a 1987 film adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," directed by Francesco Rosi.
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B.
Marche au supplice
Marche au supplice is the dramatic fourth movement of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, depicting the protagonist’s opium-induced vision of his own march to the guillotine.
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C.
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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D.
La Guillotière
La Guillotière is a lively, historically working-class neighborhood in Lyon known for its cultural diversity, dense urban fabric, and central location on the left bank of the Rhône.
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E.
D’entre les morts
D’entre les morts is a 1954 French crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac that served as the literary basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo.
- 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: L’Arrêt de mort Target entity description: L’Arrêt de mort is a short, experimental 1948 novella by French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot that blends narrative and philosophical reflection on death, absence, and the limits of language.
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A.
Chronique d’une mort annoncée
Chronique d’une mort annoncée is a 1987 film adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novella "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," directed by Francesco Rosi.
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B.
Marche au supplice
Marche au supplice is the dramatic fourth movement of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, depicting the protagonist’s opium-induced vision of his own march to the guillotine.
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C.
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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D.
La Guillotière
La Guillotière is a lively, historically working-class neighborhood in Lyon known for its cultural diversity, dense urban fabric, and central location on the left bank of the Rhône.
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E.
D’entre les morts
D’entre les morts is a 1954 French crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac that served as the literary basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ |
| author | Maurice Blanchot ⓘ |
| authorNationality | French ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental fiction
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philosophical literature ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
deconstructionist criticism
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literary theory ⓘ philosophy of literature ⓘ |
| hasPart |
autobiographical-style narrative
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philosophical reflection ⓘ |
| literaryForm | short novel ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
absence
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death ⓘ limits of language ⓘ mourning ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| movement |
French postwar literature
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literary modernism ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending narrative and philosophical discourse
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exploration of narrative voice and disappearance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcern |
experience of the other
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ontology of death ⓘ relation between writing and death ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | continental philosophy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| publisherCountry | France ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | Death Sentence ⓘ |
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