Duchesse de Guermantes
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Duchesse de Guermantes is an aristocratic Parisian salonnière in Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time," emblematic of the fading French nobility and the narrator’s complex social and aesthetic fascinations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duchesse de Guermantes canonical | 4 |
| Oriane de Guermantes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8545745 — 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: Duchesse de Guermantes Context triple: [In Search of Lost Time, keyCharacter, Duchesse de Guermantes]
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A.
Comtesse de Noailles
Comtesse de Noailles is a French noblewoman and strict lady-in-waiting who oversees court etiquette in the film "Marie Antoinette" (2006).
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B.
Anastasie de Restaud
Anastasie de Restaud is a central aristocratic character in Balzac’s novel "Le Père Goriot," known as one of Goriot’s ungrateful daughters whose social ambitions drive much of the story’s tragedy.
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C.
Adrienne de Noailles
Adrienne de Noailles was a French aristocrat and political hostess from the influential Noailles family who played a significant supporting role in the life and career of the Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution.
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D.
Baron de Charlus
Baron de Charlus is a complex, aristocratic, and secretly homosexual nobleman whose eccentricity, snobbery, and emotional volatility make him one of the most memorable figures in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
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E.
Comtesse Ferraud
Comtesse Ferraud is a central figure in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Le Colonel Chabert," known as the colonel’s estranged wife who has remarried into high society and becomes embroiled in a legal and moral conflict over his presumed death and unexpected return.
- 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: Duchesse de Guermantes Target entity description: Duchesse de Guermantes is an aristocratic Parisian salonnière in Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time," emblematic of the fading French nobility and the narrator’s complex social and aesthetic fascinations.
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A.
Comtesse de Noailles
Comtesse de Noailles is a French noblewoman and strict lady-in-waiting who oversees court etiquette in the film "Marie Antoinette" (2006).
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B.
Anastasie de Restaud
Anastasie de Restaud is a central aristocratic character in Balzac’s novel "Le Père Goriot," known as one of Goriot’s ungrateful daughters whose social ambitions drive much of the story’s tragedy.
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C.
Adrienne de Noailles
Adrienne de Noailles was a French aristocrat and political hostess from the influential Noailles family who played a significant supporting role in the life and career of the Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution.
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D.
Baron de Charlus
Baron de Charlus is a complex, aristocratic, and secretly homosexual nobleman whose eccentricity, snobbery, and emotional volatility make him one of the most memorable figures in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
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E.
Comtesse Ferraud
Comtesse Ferraud is a central figure in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Le Colonel Chabert," known as the colonel’s estranged wife who has remarried into high society and becomes embroiled in a legal and moral conflict over his presumed death and unexpected return.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aristocrat
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ salonnière ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
In Search of Lost Time
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linked to:
À la recherche du temps perdu
À la recherche du temps perdu ⓘ |
| appearsInPart |
Albertine disparue
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La Prisonnière ⓘ Le Côté de Guermantes ⓘ
linked to:
The Guermantes Way
Sodome et Gomorrhe ⓘ
linked to:
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
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| associatedWithTheme |
aesthetic idealization
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class hierarchy ⓘ decadence of the nobility ⓘ illusion versus reality ⓘ memory and perception ⓘ social snobbery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Marcel Proust ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | In Search of Lost Time universe ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Duchess ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | Guermantes family ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodiment of aristocratic world
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figure of disillusionment for the narrator ⓘ object of the narrator’s fascination ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Parisian salon
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indifference to others’ suffering ⓘ social grace ⓘ wit ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
aloof
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charming ⓘ morally indifferent ⓘ socially powerful ⓘ |
| relationshipToNarrator |
later object of critical detachment
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social idol ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| socialRole | Parisian salon hostess ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
aristocratic elegance
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distance between appearance and reality ⓘ fading French nobility ⓘ social prestige ⓘ |
| workLocation | Parisian Faubourg Saint‑Germain milieu ⓘ |
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: Duchesse de Guermantes Description of subject: Duchesse de Guermantes is an aristocratic Parisian salonnière in Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time," emblematic of the fading French nobility and the narrator’s complex social and aesthetic fascinations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.