Adèle Foucher
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Adèle Foucher was a French writer and the lifelong partner of Victor Hugo, known for her memoirs and correspondence that offer insight into the great novelist’s personal life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Adèle Foucher canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1841393 — 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: Adèle Foucher Context triple: [Victor Hugo, spouse, Adèle Foucher]
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A.
Anne-Françoise Torras
Anne-Françoise Torras was the wife of Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, a prominent figure in early 19th-century botanical science.
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B.
Léonore Baulac
Léonore Baulac is a French ballet dancer and étoile (principal) of the Paris Opera Ballet, acclaimed for her artistry and leading roles in the classical and contemporary repertoire.
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C.
Aurélia Thierrée
Aurélia Thierrée is a French actress and circus performer known for her surreal, dreamlike stage shows that blend physical theatre, mime, and illusion.
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D.
Louise Sébastienne Gély
Louise Sébastienne Gély was the second wife of French revolutionary leader Georges Danton, known primarily for this association within the context of the French Revolution.
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E.
Tanaquil Le Clercq
Tanaquil Le Clercq was a celebrated mid-20th-century American ballerina and longtime New York City Ballet principal whose career was tragically cut short by polio.
- 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: Adèle Foucher Target entity description: Adèle Foucher was a French writer and the lifelong partner of Victor Hugo, known for her memoirs and correspondence that offer insight into the great novelist’s personal life.
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A.
Anne-Françoise Torras
Anne-Françoise Torras was the wife of Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, a prominent figure in early 19th-century botanical science.
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B.
Léonore Baulac
Léonore Baulac is a French ballet dancer and étoile (principal) of the Paris Opera Ballet, acclaimed for her artistry and leading roles in the classical and contemporary repertoire.
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C.
Aurélia Thierrée
Aurélia Thierrée is a French actress and circus performer known for her surreal, dreamlike stage shows that blend physical theatre, mime, and illusion.
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D.
Louise Sébastienne Gély
Louise Sébastienne Gély was the second wife of French revolutionary leader Georges Danton, known primarily for this association within the context of the French Revolution.
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E.
Tanaquil Le Clercq
Tanaquil Le Clercq was a celebrated mid-20th-century American ballerina and longtime New York City Ballet principal whose career was tragically cut short by polio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
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human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French Romantic literature
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Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| describedAs |
French writer
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lifelong partner of Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| familyName | Foucher ⓘ |
| genre |
correspondence
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memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Adèle ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| lifelongPartner | Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| mainSubjectOfWork | personal life of Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Adèle Foucher ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
correspondence with Victor Hugo
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insight into Victor Hugo’s private life through memoirs ⓘ memoirs about Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| notableWork | Victor Hugo raconté par un témoin de sa vie ⓘ |
| occupation |
memoirist
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writer ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| spouseOfFamousWriter | Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| typeOfCreativeWorkCreated |
letters
ⓘ
memoirs ⓘ |
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: Adèle Foucher Description of subject: Adèle Foucher was a French writer and the lifelong partner of Victor Hugo, known for her memoirs and correspondence that offer insight into the great novelist’s personal life.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Léopold Hugo (brother who died in infancy)
subject linked to:
Léopoldine
subject linked to:
François-Victor