Crevel
E306673
Crevel is a vain, wealthy former perfumer and libertine in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "La Cousine Bette," emblematic of the corrupt bourgeois society he satirizes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crevel canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2854651 — 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: Crevel Context triple: [La Cousine Bette, mainCharacter, Crevel]
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A.
Casteau
Casteau is a village in Belgium best known as the site of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).
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B.
Vesoul
Vesoul is a commune in eastern France that serves as the administrative center (prefecture) of the Haute-Saône department.
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C.
Cité
Cité is a Paris Métro station located on the Île de la Cité in the historic center of Paris.
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D.
Saint-Preux
Saint-Preux is the sensitive, idealistic tutor and lover in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel "Julie, or the New Heloise," embodying Enlightenment-era conflicts between passion, virtue, and social convention.
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E.
Orgeval
Orgeval is a district in the city of Reims, France, known in part for serving as a terminus of the Reims tramway network.
- 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: Crevel Target entity description: Crevel is a vain, wealthy former perfumer and libertine in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "La Cousine Bette," emblematic of the corrupt bourgeois society he satirizes.
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A.
Casteau
Casteau is a village in Belgium best known as the site of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).
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B.
Vesoul
Vesoul is a commune in eastern France that serves as the administrative center (prefecture) of the Haute-Saône department.
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C.
Cité
Cité is a Paris Métro station located on the Île de la Cité in the historic center of Paris.
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D.
Saint-Preux
Saint-Preux is the sensitive, idealistic tutor and lover in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel "Julie, or the New Heloise," embodying Enlightenment-era conflicts between passion, virtue, and social convention.
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E.
Orgeval
Orgeval is a district in the city of Reims, France, known in part for serving as a terminus of the Reims tramway network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | La Cousine Bette ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
adultery
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money and power ⓘ sexual corruption ⓘ social hypocrisy ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
corrupt
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libertine ⓘ vain ⓘ wealthy ⓘ |
| createdInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| creator | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1846 ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | perfumer ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | realism ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | French ⓘ |
| occupation | perfumer ⓘ |
| partOf | Balzac’s gallery of Parisian types ⓘ |
| relatedWork | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
antagonistic figure
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supporting character ⓘ |
| settingOfFictionalActivity | Paris ⓘ |
| socialClass | bourgeoisie ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
corrupt bourgeois society
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moral decay ⓘ |
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: Crevel Description of subject: Crevel is a vain, wealthy former perfumer and libertine in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "La Cousine Bette," emblematic of the corrupt bourgeois society he satirizes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.