Jean Valjean
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Jean Valjean is the reformed ex-convict protagonist of Victor Hugo’s novel *Les Misérables*, whose journey from criminal to compassionate benefactor explores themes of justice, redemption, and moral transformation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Valjean canonical | 78 |
| Former convict Jean Valjean | 1 |
| Jean Valjean (for much of the novel) | 1 |
| Jean Valjean in Les Misérables | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1207937 — 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: Jean Valjean Context triple: [Javert, pursues, Jean Valjean]
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A.
Marius Pontmercy
Marius Pontmercy is a central character in Victor Hugo’s novel *Les Misérables*, a young idealistic law student and revolutionary who falls in love with Cosette.
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B.
Fantine
Fantine is a tragic young mother in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, whose descent into poverty and sacrifice for her child embodies the novel’s social injustice and emotional core.
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C.
Monsieur Bonacieux
Monsieur Bonacieux is a minor but pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers," known as Constance Bonacieux's older, miserly husband and d'Artagnan's landlord in Paris.
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D.
Augustus Melmotte
Augustus Melmotte is a wealthy, unscrupulous financier whose rise and fall in Victorian high society drives the satirical plot of Anthony Trollope's novel "The Way We Live Now."
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E.
Javert in Les Misérables
Javert in Les Misérables is the relentless police inspector whose rigid devotion to law and order drives his obsessive pursuit of the ex-convict Jean Valjean.
- 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: Jean Valjean Target entity description: Jean Valjean is the reformed ex-convict protagonist of Victor Hugo’s novel *Les Misérables*, whose journey from criminal to compassionate benefactor explores themes of justice, redemption, and moral transformation.
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A.
Marius Pontmercy
Marius Pontmercy is a central character in Victor Hugo’s novel *Les Misérables*, a young idealistic law student and revolutionary who falls in love with Cosette.
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B.
Fantine
Fantine is a tragic young mother in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, whose descent into poverty and sacrifice for her child embodies the novel’s social injustice and emotional core.
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C.
Monsieur Bonacieux
Monsieur Bonacieux is a minor but pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers," known as Constance Bonacieux's older, miserly husband and d'Artagnan's landlord in Paris.
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D.
Augustus Melmotte
Augustus Melmotte is a wealthy, unscrupulous financier whose rise and fall in Victorian high society drives the satirical plot of Anthony Trollope's novel "The Way We Live Now."
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E.
Javert in Les Misérables
Javert in Les Misérables is the relentless police inspector whose rigid devotion to law and order drives his obsessive pursuit of the ex-convict Jean Valjean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Jean Valjean Description of subject: Jean Valjean is the reformed ex-convict protagonist of Victor Hugo’s novel *Les Misérables*, whose journey from criminal to compassionate benefactor explores themes of justice, redemption, and moral transformation.
Referenced by (81)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Javert in Les Misérables
subject linked to:
Javert in Les Misérables
linked to: Jean Valjean
linked to: Jean Valjean
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