Modestine
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Modestine is the small, stubborn donkey that accompanies Robert Louis Stevenson on his journey through the Cévennes in his travel memoir "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modestine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11616639 — 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: Modestine Context triple: [Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, character, Modestine]
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A.
Athénaïse
Athénaïse is a short story by Kate Chopin that explores a young Creole woman's struggle with marriage and personal freedom in late 19th-century Louisiana.
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B.
Célestine
Célestine is a French feminine given name of Latin origin, derived from "caelestis," meaning "heavenly" or "celestial."
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C.
Saint Nino
Saint Nino is a revered early Christian missionary credited with converting the ancient Kingdom of Iberia (eastern Georgia) to Christianity and is honored as one of the most important saints in Georgian religious history.
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D.
Constance of Arles
Constance of Arles was a queen consort of France as the wife of King Robert II and a member of the Provençal nobility who played a significant role in early 11th-century French politics.
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E.
Hilary of Poitiers
Hilary of Poitiers was a 4th-century Bishop of Poitiers and influential Church Father known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy against Arianism and his extensive theological writings.
- 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: Modestine Target entity description: Modestine is the small, stubborn donkey that accompanies Robert Louis Stevenson on his journey through the Cévennes in his travel memoir "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes."
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A.
Athénaïse
Athénaïse is a short story by Kate Chopin that explores a young Creole woman's struggle with marriage and personal freedom in late 19th-century Louisiana.
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B.
Célestine
Célestine is a French feminine given name of Latin origin, derived from "caelestis," meaning "heavenly" or "celestial."
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C.
Saint Nino
Saint Nino is a revered early Christian missionary credited with converting the ancient Kingdom of Iberia (eastern Georgia) to Christianity and is honored as one of the most important saints in Georgian religious history.
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D.
Constance of Arles
Constance of Arles was a queen consort of France as the wife of King Robert II and a member of the Provençal nobility who played a significant role in early 11th-century French politics.
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E.
Hilary of Poitiers
Hilary of Poitiers was a 4th-century Bishop of Poitiers and influential Church Father known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy against Arianism and his extensive theological writings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional donkey
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
hiking
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pack travel ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| characteristic |
small
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stubborn ⓘ |
| companionOf | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| createdBy | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreContext | travel memoir ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | iconic animal companion in travel literature ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
source of comic relief
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symbol of perseverance ⓘ |
| nationalityContext | French countryside ⓘ |
| relationshipToNarrator | hireling animal ⓘ |
| role | travel companion ⓘ |
| setting | Cévennes ⓘ |
| species | donkey ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | late 19th century ⓘ |
| usedAs | pack animal ⓘ |
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: Modestine Description of subject: Modestine is the small, stubborn donkey that accompanies Robert Louis Stevenson on his journey through the Cévennes in his travel memoir "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.