L’Automne à Pékin
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L’Automne à Pékin is a surreal, satirical novel by French writer Boris Vian that blends absurdist humor with philosophical reflection in a desert-railway setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| L’Automne à Pékin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10205439 — 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’Automne à Pékin Context triple: [Boris Vian, notableWork, L’Automne à Pékin]
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A.
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film dramatizing the siege of foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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B.
The Man from Beijing
The Man from Beijing is a crime thriller novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell that intertwines a modern mass murder investigation with historical events spanning continents and centuries.
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C.
The North China Lover
The North China Lover is a stage adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s semi-autobiographical novel about a forbidden love affair in colonial Indochina.
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D.
The Siege at Peking
The Siege at Peking is a historical narrative by British writer Peter Fleming that recounts the 1900 Boxer Rebellion and the defense of the foreign legations in Beijing.
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E.
City of Eternal Spring
The "City of Eternal Spring" is a popular nickname for Medellín, Colombia, highlighting its famously mild, spring-like climate year-round.
- 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’Automne à Pékin Target entity description: L’Automne à Pékin is a surreal, satirical novel by French writer Boris Vian that blends absurdist humor with philosophical reflection in a desert-railway setting.
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A.
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film dramatizing the siege of foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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B.
The Man from Beijing
The Man from Beijing is a crime thriller novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell that intertwines a modern mass murder investigation with historical events spanning continents and centuries.
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C.
The North China Lover
The North China Lover is a stage adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s semi-autobiographical novel about a forbidden love affair in colonial Indochina.
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D.
The Siege at Peking
The Siege at Peking is a historical narrative by British writer Peter Fleming that recounts the 1900 Boxer Rebellion and the defense of the foreign legations in Beijing.
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E.
City of Eternal Spring
The "City of Eternal Spring" is a popular nickname for Medellín, Colombia, highlighting its famously mild, spring-like climate year-round.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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satirical novel ⓘ surrealist novel ⓘ |
| author | Boris Vian ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| genre |
absurdist fiction
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satire ⓘ surrealism ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | post-war French literature ⓘ |
| hasFictionalElement |
illogical railway project
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imaginary desert country ⓘ |
| hasIntendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasLanguageStyle |
humorous
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playful ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
| hasMainMedium | print ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeTechnique |
black humor
ⓘ
nonsense logic ⓘ wordplay ⓘ |
| hasPeriodOfPublication | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalAspect |
critique of rationality
ⓘ
existential questioning ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
absurdity of existence
ⓘ
bureaucracy ⓘ death ⓘ love ⓘ meaninglessness ⓘ philosophical reflection ⓘ religion ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| hasTitleInOriginalLanguage | L’Automne à Pékin ⓘ |
| hasTone |
ironic
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surreal ⓘ tragicomic ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | absurdism ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| notableFor | blend of absurdist humor and philosophical reflection ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorRepertoire | Boris Vian novels ⓘ |
| setting |
desert
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railway construction site ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Boris Vian ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: L’Automne à Pékin Description of subject: L’Automne à Pékin is a surreal, satirical novel by French writer Boris Vian that blends absurdist humor with philosophical reflection in a desert-railway setting.
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