Nana
E70011
Nana is an 1880 naturalist novel by Émile Zola that follows the rise and fall of a Parisian courtesan as a critique of Second Empire society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nana canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T545118 — 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: Nana Context triple: [Émile Zola, notableWork, Nana]
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A.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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B.
Sophia
Sophia of the Palatinate was a 17th-century German princess and Electress of Hanover, best known as the mother of King George I of Great Britain and a key figure in the Protestant succession to the British throne.
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C.
Michiko
Michiko is the former Empress of Japan and the wife of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, known for being the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
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D.
Nell
Nell is a feminine given name, often used as a diminutive of names like Eleanor or Helen.
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E.
Doris
Doris is an Oceanid from Greek mythology, known as the wife of the sea god Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- 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: Nana Target entity description: Nana is an 1880 naturalist novel by Émile Zola that follows the rise and fall of a Parisian courtesan as a critique of Second Empire society.
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A.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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B.
Sophia
Sophia of the Palatinate was a 17th-century German princess and Electress of Hanover, best known as the mother of King George I of Great Britain and a key figure in the Protestant succession to the British throne.
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C.
Michiko
Michiko is the former Empress of Japan and the wife of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, known for being the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.
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D.
Nell
Nell is a feminine given name, often used as a diminutive of names like Eleanor or Helen.
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E.
Doris
Doris is an Oceanid from Greek mythology, known as the wife of the sea god Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- 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: Nana Description of subject: Nana is an 1880 naturalist novel by Émile Zola that follows the rise and fall of a Parisian courtesan as a critique of Second Empire society.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.