Jacques le fataliste et son maître
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Jacques le fataliste et son maître is an 18th-century philosophical novel by Denis Diderot that playfully explores fate, free will, and storytelling through the conversations and adventures of a servant and his master.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacques le fataliste et son maître canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacques le fataliste et son maître Context triple: [Denis Diderot, notableWork, Jacques le fataliste et son maître]
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Zadig
Zadig is a philosophical novella by Voltaire that follows the trials of a wise and virtuous Babylonian man to satirize society, religion, and the nature of fate.
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B.
Scènes de la vie de province
Scènes de la vie de province is a series of interlinked novels by Honoré de Balzac depicting the social, political, and personal lives of characters in provincial France as part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
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C.
Julie, or the New Heloise
Julie, or the New Heloise is an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that explores themes of love, virtue, and social convention through the tragic relationship between a noblewoman and her tutor.
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D.
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes is a major novel in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that explores the intertwined worlds of Parisian high society, crime, and prostitution in the early 19th century.
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E.
Candide
Candide is a satirical novella by Voltaire that follows a naïve young man’s disillusioning journey through a series of misfortunes, sharply critiquing philosophical optimism and societal hypocrisy.
- 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: Jacques le fataliste et son maître Target entity description: Jacques le fataliste et son maître is an 18th-century philosophical novel by Denis Diderot that playfully explores fate, free will, and storytelling through the conversations and adventures of a servant and his master.
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A.
Zadig
Zadig is a philosophical novella by Voltaire that follows the trials of a wise and virtuous Babylonian man to satirize society, religion, and the nature of fate.
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B.
Scènes de la vie de province
Scènes de la vie de province is a series of interlinked novels by Honoré de Balzac depicting the social, political, and personal lives of characters in provincial France as part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
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C.
Julie, or the New Heloise
Julie, or the New Heloise is an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that explores themes of love, virtue, and social convention through the tragic relationship between a noblewoman and her tutor.
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D.
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes is a major novel in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that explores the intertwined worlds of Parisian high society, crime, and prostitution in the early 19th century.
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E.
Candide
Candide is a satirical novella by Voltaire that follows a naïve young man’s disillusioning journey through a series of misfortunes, sharply critiquing philosophical optimism and societal hypocrisy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French novel
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novel ⓘ philosophical novel ⓘ |
| author | Denis Diderot ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| form | prose fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
metafiction
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philosophical fiction ⓘ picaresque novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Jacques's mistress
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the narrator ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
contingency in human life
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servant–master relationship ⓘ storytelling as performance ⓘ |
| influenced |
modernist literature
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postmodern literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Laurence Sterne
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Tristram Shandy ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
irony
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parody ⓘ self-reflexivity ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Enlightenment ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Jacques
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Jacques's master ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | dialogue-driven narrative ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
breaking the fourth wall
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digression ⓘ frame narrative ⓘ nonlinear narrative ⓘ |
| narrator | intrusive narrator ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| period | 18th century ⓘ |
| philosophicalAspect |
critique of moral conventions
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questioning of causality ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | French Enlightenment philosophy ⓘ |
| setting | 18th-century France ⓘ |
| structure | story within a story ⓘ |
| theme |
determinism
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fate ⓘ free will ⓘ love ⓘ nature of narrative ⓘ philosophical skepticism ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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playful ⓘ |
| workOf | Denis Diderot ⓘ |
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