La Force des choses
E682733
La Force des choses is Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographical work that chronicles her intellectual, political, and personal life in the post–World War II era.
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| La Force des choses canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7692837 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Force des choses Context triple: [Simone de Beauvoir, notableWork, La Force des choses]
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Maison d’Ailleurs
Maison d’Ailleurs is a Swiss museum in Yverdon-les-Bains dedicated to science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys, known for its unique collections and exhibitions on speculative imagination.
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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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À rebours
À rebours is an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans that became a seminal work of the Decadent movement, famed for its portrayal of an eccentric aristocrat’s extreme aestheticism and rejection of conventional morality.
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Théorème vivant
Théorème vivant is a memoir-style book by French mathematician Cédric Villani that blends personal narrative with an accessible account of high-level mathematical research and discovery.
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Petit Envers du Plan
Petit Envers du Plan is a popular off-piste variant of the Vallée Blanche in the Mont Blanc massif, known for its steeper, more technical glacial terrain and crevasse navigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Force des choses Target entity description: La Force des choses is Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographical work that chronicles her intellectual, political, and personal life in the post–World War II era.
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A.
Maison d’Ailleurs
Maison d’Ailleurs is a Swiss museum in Yverdon-les-Bains dedicated to science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys, known for its unique collections and exhibitions on speculative imagination.
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B.
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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C.
À rebours
À rebours is an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans that became a seminal work of the Decadent movement, famed for its portrayal of an eccentric aristocrat’s extreme aestheticism and rejection of conventional morality.
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D.
Théorème vivant
Théorème vivant is a memoir-style book by French mathematician Cédric Villani that blends personal narrative with an accessible account of high-level mathematical research and discovery.
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E.
Petit Envers du Plan
Petit Envers du Plan is a popular off-piste variant of the Vallée Blanche in the Mont Blanc massif, known for its steeper, more technical glacial terrain and crevasse navigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | autobiographical book ⓘ |
| author | Simone de Beauvoir ⓘ |
| chroniclesPeriod | post–World War II era ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depictsEvent |
Algerian War of Independence
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Cold War intellectual debates ⓘ aftermath of World War II ⓘ |
| describes |
Simone de Beauvoir’s political activism
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Simone de Beauvoir’s travels ⓘ Simone de Beauvoir’s work on Les Temps modernes ⓘ
linked to:
Simone de Beauvoir
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| follows | La Force de l’âge ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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philosophical memoir ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
French left-wing politics
ⓘ
decolonization ⓘ existentialist movement ⓘ postwar French intellectual life ⓘ women’s condition in the mid-20th century ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
existentialism
ⓘ
feminism ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Simone de Beauvoir
ⓘ
intellectual life ⓘ personal relationships ⓘ political engagement ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notablePersonMentioned |
Albert Camus
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Jean-Paul Sartre ⓘ Maurice Merleau-Ponty ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Simone de Beauvoir autobiographical cycle ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
La Force de l’âge
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Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée ⓘ Tout compte fait ⓘ |
| setting |
France
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Paris ⓘ various international locations ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
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celebrity and public life ⓘ engaged literature ⓘ existential freedom ⓘ feminist consciousness ⓘ political commitment ⓘ responsibility of the intellectual ⓘ |
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