Eugène de Rastignac
E310118
Eugène de Rastignac is an ambitious young law student who rises through Parisian society and serves as one of Honoré de Balzac’s central figures embodying social climbing and moral compromise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eugène de Rastignac canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2901478 — 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: Eugène de Rastignac Context triple: [La Comédie humaine, notableCharacter, Eugène de Rastignac]
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A.
Julien
Julien is a given name of French origin commonly used for males in various Francophone and European countries.
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B.
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon is a political novel by Émile Zola that explores power, ambition, and corruption within the Second French Empire as part of his Rougon-Macquart series.
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C.
Étienne
Étienne is the given first name of the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé.
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D.
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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E.
Firmin Bourgeois
Firmin Bourgeois was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris.
- 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: Eugène de Rastignac Target entity description: Eugène de Rastignac is an ambitious young law student who rises through Parisian society and serves as one of Honoré de Balzac’s central figures embodying social climbing and moral compromise.
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A.
Julien
Julien is a given name of French origin commonly used for males in various Francophone and European countries.
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B.
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon is a political novel by Émile Zola that explores power, ambition, and corruption within the Second French Empire as part of his Rougon-Macquart series.
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C.
Étienne
Étienne is the given first name of the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé.
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D.
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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E.
Firmin Bourgeois
Firmin Bourgeois was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris.
- 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: Eugène de Rastignac Description of subject: Eugène de Rastignac is an ambitious young law student who rises through Parisian society and serves as one of Honoré de Balzac’s central figures embodying social climbing and moral compromise.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.