Madame Ferraud
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Madame Ferraud is a French noblewoman character, known as Comtesse Ferraud, from Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madame Ferraud canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12960569 — 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: Madame Ferraud Context triple: [Comtesse Ferraud, alsoKnownAs, Madame Ferraud]
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A.
Madame Hedouin
Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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B.
Madame Campardon
Madame Campardon is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the era’s domestic hypocrisies and social pretenses.
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C.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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D.
Madame Josserand
Madame Josserand is a domineering, socially ambitious bourgeois matron in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," obsessed with arranging advantageous marriages for her daughters.
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E.
Mlle Deloche
Mlle Deloche was the wife of French classical liberal economist and political theorist Jean-Baptiste Say.
- 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: Madame Ferraud Target entity description: Madame Ferraud is a French noblewoman character, known as Comtesse Ferraud, from Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine.
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A.
Madame Hedouin
Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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B.
Madame Campardon
Madame Campardon is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the era’s domestic hypocrisies and social pretenses.
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C.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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D.
Madame Josserand
Madame Josserand is a domineering, socially ambitious bourgeois matron in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," obsessed with arranging advantageous marriages for her daughters.
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E.
Mlle Deloche
Mlle Deloche was the wife of French classical liberal economist and political theorist Jean-Baptiste Say.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| creator | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | realist literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| notableWorkContext |
French Restoration society
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linked to:
First Bourbon Restoration
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| occupation | noblewoman ⓘ |
| partOf | Balzac’s fictional universe ⓘ |
| title | Comtesse Ferraud ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Madame Ferraud Description of subject: Madame Ferraud is a French noblewoman character, known as Comtesse Ferraud, from Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Comtesse Ferraud is Chabert's former wife