La Vieille Fille
E310105
La Vieille Fille is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his vast literary cycle La Comédie humaine, depicting provincial life and social ambition in 19th-century France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Vieille Fille canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2901457 — 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: La Vieille Fille Context triple: [La Comédie humaine, hasPart, La Vieille Fille]
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A.
Le Démon Blond
Le Démon Blond is the famous French nickname of legendary Montreal Canadiens right winger Guy Lafleur, known for his speed, flair, and flowing blond hair.
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B.
Burn the Witch
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C.
Monstress
Monstress is an acclaimed dark fantasy comic series by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, known for its richly detailed art and complex, matriarchal world blending steampunk, magic, and war.
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D.
L’Amoreaux
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E.
The Cradle
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- 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: La Vieille Fille Target entity description: La Vieille Fille is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his vast literary cycle La Comédie humaine, depicting provincial life and social ambition in 19th-century France.
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A.
Le Démon Blond
Le Démon Blond is the famous French nickname of legendary Montreal Canadiens right winger Guy Lafleur, known for his speed, flair, and flowing blond hair.
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B.
Burn the Witch
"Burn the Witch" is a 2016 Radiohead song known for its tense, orchestral arrangement and politically charged lyrics critiquing authoritarianism and social paranoia.
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C.
Monstress
Monstress is an acclaimed dark fantasy comic series by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, known for its richly detailed art and complex, matriarchal world blending steampunk, magic, and war.
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D.
L’Amoreaux
L’Amoreaux is a residential neighbourhood in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, known for its diverse community, parks, and suburban character.
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E.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| depicts |
provincial life in 19th-century France
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social ambition ⓘ |
| genre |
novella
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realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorGender | male ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | French ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| hasMainTheme |
class and social hierarchy
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marriage and social status ⓘ money and inheritance ⓘ provincial society ⓘ |
| hasTitleInOriginalLanguage | La Vieille Fille ⓘ |
| includedInSeries | Scènes de la vie de province ⓘ |
| literaryCycle | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | 19th-century French literature ⓘ |
| movement | French literary realism ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| setInCountry | France ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: La Vieille Fille Description of subject: La Vieille Fille is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his vast literary cycle La Comédie humaine, depicting provincial life and social ambition in 19th-century France.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.