Nucingen
E310119
Nucingen is a powerful and unscrupulous banker in Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, emblematic of the corrupt financial elite of 19th-century Paris.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nucingen canonical | 2 |
| de Nucingen | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2901482 — 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: Nucingen Context triple: [La Comédie humaine, notableCharacter, Nucingen]
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A.
Memmingen
Memmingen is a historic town in the Bavarian region of Germany, known for its well-preserved medieval old town and role as a regional transport hub.
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B.
Blaubeuren
Blaubeuren is a historic town in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, known for its medieval old town and the karst spring Blautopf.
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C.
Miesbach
Miesbach is a historic town in southern Germany known for its traditional Bavarian culture and picturesque Alpine foothill setting.
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D.
Schwandorf
Schwandorf is a town in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany, known as a local administrative and commercial center on the Naab River.
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E.
Offenburg
Offenburg is a city in southwestern Germany’s Baden-Württemberg state, known as a regional economic and transport hub near the French border in the Upper Rhine region.
- 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: Nucingen Target entity description: Nucingen is a powerful and unscrupulous banker in Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, emblematic of the corrupt financial elite of 19th-century Paris.
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A.
Memmingen
Memmingen is a historic town in the Bavarian region of Germany, known for its well-preserved medieval old town and role as a regional transport hub.
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B.
Blaubeuren
Blaubeuren is a historic town in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, known for its medieval old town and the karst spring Blautopf.
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C.
Miesbach
Miesbach is a historic town in southern Germany known for its traditional Bavarian culture and picturesque Alpine foothill setting.
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D.
Schwandorf
Schwandorf is a town in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany, known as a local administrative and commercial center on the Naab River.
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E.
Offenburg
Offenburg is a city in southwestern Germany’s Baden-Württemberg state, known as a regional economic and transport hub near the French border in the Upper Rhine region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
banker
ⓘ
character in La Comédie humaine ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
La Comédie humaine
ⓘ
La Maison Nucingen ⓘ Le Père Goriot ⓘ Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Delphine de Nucingen
ⓘ
Eugène de Rastignac ⓘ Parisian high finance ⓘ Vautrin ⓘ |
| businessType | private bank ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
calculating
ⓘ
cunning ⓘ greedy ⓘ |
| creator | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| familyName | Nucingen ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | unscrupulous ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | embodiment of money power in La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| nationality | Alsatian ⓘ |
| notableWorkContext | French Restoration society ⓘ |
| occupation | banker ⓘ |
| partOf |
Balzac’s gallery of financiers
ⓘ
linked to:
Gobseck
|
| represents |
financial corruption
ⓘ
speculative capitalism ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| roleInWork | emblem of the corrupt financial elite of 19th-century Paris ⓘ |
| setting | 19th-century Paris ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| speaksWith | strong German accent ⓘ |
| spouse | Delphine de Nucingen ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Nucingen Description of subject: Nucingen is a powerful and unscrupulous banker in Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, emblematic of the corrupt financial elite of 19th-century Paris.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nucingen
linked to: Nucingen