Le Ventre de Paris
E69630
Le Ventre de Paris is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that vividly portrays life around Paris’s central market, Les Halles, while exploring themes of social conflict, hunger, and abundance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Le Ventre de Paris canonical | 5 |
| The Belly of Paris | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T545127 — 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 Ventre de Paris Context triple: [Émile Zola, notableWork, Le Ventre de Paris]
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A.
La Ville Radieuse
La Ville Radieuse is Le Corbusier’s influential utopian urban planning concept that envisioned a highly ordered, high-density city of towers set within open green spaces.
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B.
La Joie de vivre
La Joie de vivre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores pessimism, suffering, and resilience within a bourgeois family in provincial France.
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C.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
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D.
City of Light
City of Light is a famous nickname for Paris, highlighting its historic role as a center of art, culture, and enlightenment.
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E.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
- 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 Ventre de Paris Target entity description: Le Ventre de Paris is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that vividly portrays life around Paris’s central market, Les Halles, while exploring themes of social conflict, hunger, and abundance.
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A.
La Ville Radieuse
La Ville Radieuse is Le Corbusier’s influential utopian urban planning concept that envisioned a highly ordered, high-density city of towers set within open green spaces.
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B.
La Joie de vivre
La Joie de vivre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores pessimism, suffering, and resilience within a bourgeois family in provincial France.
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C.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
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D.
City of Light
City of Light is a famous nickname for Paris, highlighting its historic role as a center of art, culture, and enlightenment.
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E.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
naturalist novel
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
radio adaptations
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television adaptations ⓘ |
| author | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts |
Paris food markets
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butchers ⓘ shopkeepers ⓘ small tradespeople ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | book publication ⓘ |
| genre |
naturalism
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realist literature ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
The Belly of Paris
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linked to:
Le Ventre de Paris
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| historicalContext | post-Commune political climate in France ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Naturalism
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linked to:
Realism
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| literaryTechnique |
detailed descriptive realism
ⓘ
documentary-style observation ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Claude Lantier
ⓘ
Florent ⓘ Lisa Quenu ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableSection | the "symphony of cheeses" description ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
Rougon-Macquart cycle
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linked to:
Les Rougon-Macquart
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| partOfLiteraryProject | study of society under the Second Empire ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | third novel in Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation |
market inspector
ⓘ
political exile ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1873 ⓘ |
| publisher | Charpentier ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Germinal
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linked to:
Les Rougon-Macquart
La Curée ⓘ L’Assommoir ⓘ
linked to:
Les Rougon-Macquart
|
| series | Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ |
| setting |
Les Halles market
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linked to:
Les Halles
Paris ⓘ |
| theme |
abundance
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class struggle ⓘ consumer society ⓘ hunger ⓘ political repression ⓘ social conflict ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting |
Second French Empire
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linked to:
Second Empire of France
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| titleMeaning |
The Belly of Paris
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linked to:
Le Ventre de Paris
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Le Ventre de Paris Description of subject: Le Ventre de Paris is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that vividly portrays life around Paris’s central market, Les Halles, while exploring themes of social conflict, hunger, and abundance.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Le Ventre de Paris
linked to: Le Ventre de Paris