La Débâcle
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La Débâcle is an 1892 historical novel by Émile Zola that portrays the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of the Second French Empire through the experiences of ordinary soldiers and civilians.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Débâcle canonical | 4 |
| La Débâcle (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T545121 — 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 Débâcle Context triple: [Émile Zola, notableWork, La Débâcle]
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A.
July Days
July Days was a brief but intense period of armed demonstrations and political unrest in Petrograd in July 1917 that exposed the weakness of the Russian Provisional Government and boosted Bolshevik influence ahead of the October Revolution.
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Le Siècle
Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
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C.
Drôle de guerre
Drôle de guerre is the term for the early phase of World War II on the Western Front marked by little active fighting despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
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D.
Les Cent-Jours
Les Cent-Jours refers to the brief 1815 period when Napoleon Bonaparte returned from exile, regained power in France, and ultimately fell after the Battle of Waterloo.
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E.
Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental sandstone sculpture in Belfort, France, symbolizing French resistance during the Franco-Prussian War and created by Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
- 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 Débâcle Target entity description: La Débâcle is an 1892 historical novel by Émile Zola that portrays the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of the Second French Empire through the experiences of ordinary soldiers and civilians.
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A.
July Days
July Days was a brief but intense period of armed demonstrations and political unrest in Petrograd in July 1917 that exposed the weakness of the Russian Provisional Government and boosted Bolshevik influence ahead of the October Revolution.
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B.
Le Siècle
Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
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C.
Drôle de guerre
Drôle de guerre is the term for the early phase of World War II on the Western Front marked by little active fighting despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
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D.
Les Cent-Jours
Les Cent-Jours refers to the brief 1815 period when Napoleon Bonaparte returned from exile, regained power in France, and ultimately fell after the Battle of Waterloo.
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E.
Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental sandstone sculpture in Belfort, France, symbolizing French resistance during the Franco-Prussian War and created by Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depictsEvent |
Battle of Sedan
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linked to:
Battle of Sedan (1870)
Franco-Prussian War ⓘ fall of Napoleon III ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType |
French infantry soldiers
ⓘ
Prussian soldiers ⓘ civilians ⓘ |
| followedBy | Le Docteur Pascal ⓘ |
| follows | Le Rêve ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
realist novel ⓘ war novel ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
The Debacle
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The Downfall ⓘ
linked to:
Downfall
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| literaryMovement | Naturalism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
civilian hardship
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collapse of political regimes ⓘ defeat ⓘ suffering of ordinary soldiers ⓘ war ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of the Second French Empire
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detailed depiction of military defeat ⓘ naturalistic portrayal of war’s brutality ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | French literature ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorProject |
Rougon-Macquart social and natural history of a family under the Second Empire
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linked to:
Les Rougon-Macquart
|
| positionInSeries | 19 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1892 ⓘ |
| publisher | Charpentier et Fasquelle ⓘ |
| series | Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
Franco-Prussian War
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Siege of Paris ⓘ fall of the Second French Empire ⓘ |
| setting |
France
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Paris ⓘ battlefields of eastern France ⓘ |
| timeOfAction |
1870
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1871 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: La Débâcle Description of subject: La Débâcle is an 1892 historical novel by Émile Zola that portrays the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of the Second French Empire through the experiences of ordinary soldiers and civilians.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Débâcle