L’Ève future
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L’Ève future is a late-19th-century French science fiction novel by Villiers de l’Isle-Adam that explores artificial life, idealized femininity, and the philosophical implications of technology through the creation of an android woman.
All labels observed (1)
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| L’Ève future canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9965725 — 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’Ève future Context triple: [Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, notableWork, L’Ève future]
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A.
Le Monde sans soleil
Le Monde sans soleil is a 1964 French documentary film by Jacques-Yves Cousteau that chronicles an experimental month-long underwater habitat mission.
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New Eve
New Eve is a Marian title that presents Mary as a parallel and redemptive counterpart to Eve, whose obedience and role in salvation history contrast with Eve’s disobedience in Christian theology.
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La Naissance du jour
La Naissance du jour is a semi-autobiographical novel by French writer Colette that meditates on aging, love, and female independence in a lyrical, introspective style.
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D.
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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E.
L’Esprit Nouveau
L’Esprit Nouveau was an influential early 20th-century avant-garde magazine co-founded by Le Corbusier that promoted modernist ideas in art, architecture, and design.
- 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’Ève future Target entity description: L’Ève future is a late-19th-century French science fiction novel by Villiers de l’Isle-Adam that explores artificial life, idealized femininity, and the philosophical implications of technology through the creation of an android woman.
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A.
Le Monde sans soleil
Le Monde sans soleil is a 1964 French documentary film by Jacques-Yves Cousteau that chronicles an experimental month-long underwater habitat mission.
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B.
New Eve
New Eve is a Marian title that presents Mary as a parallel and redemptive counterpart to Eve, whose obedience and role in salvation history contrast with Eve’s disobedience in Christian theology.
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C.
La Naissance du jour
La Naissance du jour is a semi-autobiographical novel by French writer Colette that meditates on aging, love, and female independence in a lyrical, introspective style.
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D.
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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E.
L’Esprit Nouveau
L’Esprit Nouveau was an influential early 20th-century avant-garde magazine co-founded by Le Corbusier that promoted modernist ideas in art, architecture, and design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Villiers de l’Isle-Adam ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
Pygmalion motif
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aesthetics and perfection ⓘ artificial life ⓘ idealized femininity ⓘ mechanization of the human body ⓘ philosophical implications of technology ⓘ technology and humanity ⓘ the nature of the soul ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| explores |
the boundary between human and machine
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the construction of feminine ideals ⓘ the ethics of technological creation ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | an android woman ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | book ⓘ |
| genre |
fantastic literature
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philosophical fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
android
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electricity ⓘ illusion and reality ⓘ love and desire ⓘ |
| hasTranslation |
English
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German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| influenced |
discourse on artificial women in literature
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early science fiction about androids ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Decadent movement
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linked to:
Decadentism
Symbolism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Hadaly
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Lord Ewald ⓘ Thomas Edison ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Alva Edison
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| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| portrays | a fictionalized Thomas Edison as an inventor-philosopher ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1886 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Hadaly ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: L’Ève future Description of subject: L’Ève future is a late-19th-century French science fiction novel by Villiers de l’Isle-Adam that explores artificial life, idealized femininity, and the philosophical implications of technology through the creation of an android woman.
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