Madame Hedouin
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Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madame Hedouin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3234758 — 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: Madame Hedouin Context triple: [Pot-Bouille, character, Madame Hedouin]
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A.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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B.
Madame Campardon
Madame Campardon is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the era’s domestic hypocrisies and social pretenses.
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C.
Madame Josserand
Madame Josserand is a domineering, socially ambitious bourgeois matron in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," obsessed with arranging advantageous marriages for her daughters.
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D.
Madame Moitessier
Madame Moitessier is a celebrated mid-19th-century portrait painting by French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, renowned for its meticulous detail and idealized depiction of bourgeois elegance.
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E.
Madame Pichon
Madame Pichon is a minor fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the petty-bourgeois milieu of a Parisian apartment building.
- 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: Madame Hedouin Target entity description: Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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A.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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B.
Madame Campardon
Madame Campardon is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the era’s domestic hypocrisies and social pretenses.
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C.
Madame Josserand
Madame Josserand is a domineering, socially ambitious bourgeois matron in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," obsessed with arranging advantageous marriages for her daughters.
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D.
Madame Moitessier
Madame Moitessier is a celebrated mid-19th-century portrait painting by French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, renowned for its meticulous detail and idealized depiction of bourgeois elegance.
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E.
Madame Pichon
Madame Pichon is a minor fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the petty-bourgeois milieu of a Parisian apartment building.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bourgeois woman
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ shop owner ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Pot-Bouille ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
bourgeois capitalism
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female economic independence ⓘ urban modernity ⓘ |
| authorNationality | French ⓘ |
| basedOn | Parisian bourgeois shopkeepers of the Second Empire ⓘ |
| businessLocation | Rue de Choiseul, Paris ⓘ |
| businessType | shop ⓘ |
| characterIn | Pot-Bouille ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalUniverse | France ⓘ |
| creator | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1882 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovementOfWork | naturalism ⓘ |
| literaryRole | symbol of modern bourgeois female independence ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | embodiment of commercial modernity in Paris ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | French ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
business-savvy
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efficient ⓘ independent ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ self-reliant ⓘ |
| occupation |
businesswoman
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shop owner ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ |
| represents | emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris ⓘ |
| residence |
Paris
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Rue de Choiseul, Paris ⓘ |
| settingRegime |
Second French Empire
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linked to:
Second Empire of France
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| socialClass | bourgeoisie ⓘ |
| spouse | Monsieur Hédouin ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
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: Madame Hedouin Description of subject: Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.