Émilie de Fontaine
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Émilie de Fontaine is a proud and aristocratic young woman in Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, whose rigid social ambitions and romantic illusions drive the plot of the novella "Le Bal de Sceaux."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Émilie de Fontaine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12959695 — 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: Émilie de Fontaine Context triple: [Le Bal de Sceaux, protagonist, Émilie de Fontaine]
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A.
Émilie
Émilie is the given first name of the French-born American actress Claudette Colbert, a major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Émilie
Émilie is the given name of Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet, an 18th-century French mathematician, physicist, and translator of Newton.
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C.
Emilie François
Emilie François is an actress best known for playing Margaret Dashwood in an adaptation of Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility."
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D.
Julie d’Étanges
Julie d’Étanges is the virtuous yet tragically fated heroine of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel "Julie, or the New Heloise," whose conflicted love and moral struggles embody Enlightenment debates about passion, duty, and social order.
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E.
Adeline de Horsey
Adeline de Horsey was a British aristocrat best known as the second wife of James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, the Crimean War cavalry commander famed for leading the Charge of the Light Brigade.
- 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: Émilie de Fontaine Target entity description: Émilie de Fontaine is a proud and aristocratic young woman in Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, whose rigid social ambitions and romantic illusions drive the plot of the novella "Le Bal de Sceaux."
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A.
Émilie
Émilie is the given first name of the French-born American actress Claudette Colbert, a major Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Émilie
Émilie is the given name of Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet, an 18th-century French mathematician, physicist, and translator of Newton.
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C.
Emilie François
Emilie François is an actress best known for playing Margaret Dashwood in an adaptation of Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility."
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D.
Julie d’Étanges
Julie d’Étanges is the virtuous yet tragically fated heroine of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel "Julie, or the New Heloise," whose conflicted love and moral struggles embody Enlightenment debates about passion, duty, and social order.
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E.
Adeline de Horsey
Adeline de Horsey was a British aristocrat best known as the second wife of James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, the Crimean War cavalry commander famed for leading the Charge of the Light Brigade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
La Comédie humaine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Le Bal de Sceaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
class prejudice
ⓘ
illusion versus reality in love ⓘ marriage market in Restoration France ⓘ social ambition ⓘ |
| belongsToCycle | Scènes de la vie privée NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
aristocratic ⓘ proud ⓘ romantic ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | de Fontaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | novella Le Bal de Sceaux ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasMotivation |
rigid social ambitions
ⓘ
romantic illusions ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives the plot of Le Bal de Sceaux ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | La Comédie humaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of Le Bal de Sceaux ⓘ |
| setting | Restoration-era French aristocratic society ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Émilie de Fontaine Description of subject: Émilie de Fontaine is a proud and aristocratic young woman in Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, whose rigid social ambitions and romantic illusions drive the plot of the novella "Le Bal de Sceaux."
Referenced by (2)
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