Modeste Mignon
E326530
Modeste Mignon is an 1844 novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the romantic and social awakening of a young provincial woman, forming part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Modeste Mignon canonical | 10 |
| Modeste Mignon (character) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3111075 — 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: Modeste Mignon Context triple: [Scènes de la vie parisienne, hasPart, Modeste Mignon]
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A.
Adèle Foucher
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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B.
Mathilde Mauté
Mathilde Mauté was the wife and muse of French poet Paul Verlaine, known primarily through her portrayal in accounts of his tumultuous life and relationships.
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C.
Julie d’Étanges
Julie d’Étanges is the virtuous yet tragically fated heroine of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel "Julie, or the New Heloise," whose conflicted love and moral struggles embody Enlightenment debates about passion, duty, and social order.
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D.
Juliette Récamier
Juliette Récamier was a celebrated French socialite and salonnière of the early 19th century, renowned for her beauty, wit, and influential literary and political circle in Paris.
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E.
Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry was a prominent 18th-century French courtesan who became the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV and a notable figure of the late Ancien Régime.
- 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: Modeste Mignon Target entity description: Modeste Mignon is an 1844 novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the romantic and social awakening of a young provincial woman, forming part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
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A.
Adèle Foucher
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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B.
Mathilde Mauté
Mathilde Mauté was the wife and muse of French poet Paul Verlaine, known primarily through her portrayal in accounts of his tumultuous life and relationships.
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C.
Julie d’Étanges
Julie d’Étanges is the virtuous yet tragically fated heroine of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel "Julie, or the New Heloise," whose conflicted love and moral struggles embody Enlightenment debates about passion, duty, and social order.
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D.
Juliette Récamier
Juliette Récamier was a celebrated French socialite and salonnière of the early 19th century, renowned for her beauty, wit, and influential literary and political circle in Paris.
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E.
Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry was a prominent 18th-century French courtesan who became the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV and a notable figure of the late Ancien Régime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Modeste Mignon Description of subject: Modeste Mignon is an 1844 novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the romantic and social awakening of a young provincial woman, forming part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Modeste Mignon
linked to: Modeste Mignon