Madame Guignol
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Madame Guignol is a recurring female character in the traditional French Guignol puppet theatre, often portrayed as a sharp-tongued, strong-willed counterpart within its comedic and satirical stories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madame Guignol canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9875483 — 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 Guignol Context triple: [Guignol puppet theatre, usesCharacter, Madame Guignol]
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A.
Pierrot
Pierrot is a traditional stock character from French pantomime and commedia dell’arte, typically portrayed as a sad, white-faced clown in loose white clothing.
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B.
Madame Pernelle
Madame Pernelle is a domineering, moralizing matriarch in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," known for her blind admiration of the hypocrite Tartuffe and harsh criticism of her own family.
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C.
Pierrot the Madman
Pierrot the Madman is the English title of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 French New Wave crime-romance film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina.
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D.
Madame Merle
Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
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E.
La Goulue
La Goulue was the stage name of Louise Weber, a famous late-19th-century French can-can dancer at the Moulin Rouge and a popular subject of Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters.
- 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 Guignol Target entity description: Madame Guignol is a recurring female character in the traditional French Guignol puppet theatre, often portrayed as a sharp-tongued, strong-willed counterpart within its comedic and satirical stories.
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A.
Pierrot
Pierrot is a traditional stock character from French pantomime and commedia dell’arte, typically portrayed as a sad, white-faced clown in loose white clothing.
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B.
Madame Pernelle
Madame Pernelle is a domineering, moralizing matriarch in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," known for her blind admiration of the hypocrite Tartuffe and harsh criticism of her own family.
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C.
Pierrot the Madman
Pierrot the Madman is the English title of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 French New Wave crime-romance film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina.
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D.
Madame Merle
Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
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E.
La Goulue
La Goulue was the stage name of Louise Weber, a famous late-19th-century French can-can dancer at the Moulin Rouge and a popular subject of Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
puppet character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Guignol puppet theatre ⓘ |
| associatedWith | traditional French popular theatre ⓘ |
| audience | family audiences ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
sharp-tongued
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strong-willed ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Guignol
ⓘ
linked to:
Guignol puppet theatre
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| medium | puppet theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
source of humor
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vehicle for satire ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | recurring character ⓘ |
| partOf |
Guignol character ensemble
ⓘ
linked to:
Guignol puppet theatre
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| performanceStyle | puppetry ⓘ |
| roleInStories |
comic counterpart
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satirical counterpart ⓘ |
| typicalSetting | French folk theatre ⓘ |
| usedFor |
popular entertainment
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social commentary ⓘ |
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 Guignol Description of subject: Madame Guignol is a recurring female character in the traditional French Guignol puppet theatre, often portrayed as a sharp-tongued, strong-willed counterpart within its comedic and satirical stories.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.