Minna
E1021385
Minna is a character in Honoré de Balzac’s mystical novel "Séraphîta," representing human love and devotion in contrast to the work’s spiritual and androgynous protagonist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minna canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12960104 — 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: Minna Context triple: [Séraphîta, hasCharacter, Minna]
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A.
Minna
Minna is a major city and administrative center in north-central Nigeria, known as the capital of Niger State and a regional hub for trade and transportation.
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B.
Minori
Minori is a small seaside town on Italy’s Amalfi Coast known for its historic lemon cultivation, Roman villa ruins, and relaxed, less touristy atmosphere.
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C.
Mehinako
Mehinako are an Indigenous people of the Upper Xingu region in Brazil, known for their distinct language, rich ritual traditions, and communal village life in the Amazon.
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D.
Minin
Minin is a Russian surname most famously borne by Kuzma Minin, a merchant from Nizhny Novgorod who became a national hero for organizing resistance against Polish invaders in the early 17th century.
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E.
Harumi
Harumi is a waterfront district in Tokyo’s Chūō ward known for its high-rise residential towers and role in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Village.
- 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: Minna Target entity description: Minna is a character in Honoré de Balzac’s mystical novel "Séraphîta," representing human love and devotion in contrast to the work’s spiritual and androgynous protagonist.
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A.
Minna
Minna is a major city and administrative center in north-central Nigeria, known as the capital of Niger State and a regional hub for trade and transportation.
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B.
Minori
Minori is a small seaside town on Italy’s Amalfi Coast known for its historic lemon cultivation, Roman villa ruins, and relaxed, less touristy atmosphere.
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C.
Mehinako
Mehinako are an Indigenous people of the Upper Xingu region in Brazil, known for their distinct language, rich ritual traditions, and communal village life in the Amazon.
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D.
Minin
Minin is a Russian surname most famously borne by Kuzma Minin, a merchant from Nizhny Novgorod who became a national hero for organizing resistance against Polish invaders in the early 17th century.
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E.
Harumi
Harumi is a waterfront district in Tokyo’s Chūō ward known for its high-rise residential towers and role in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Village.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Séraphîta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | mystical novel ⓘ |
| appearsInSectionOfLaComedieHumaine | Études philosophiques NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorMovement | French Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
devotional attachment
ⓘ
mysticism ⓘ spiritual love versus human love ⓘ |
| characterInWorkBy | Honoré de Balzac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Séraphîta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableRelationshipWith | Séraphîta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | human counterpart to Séraphîta’s spiritual nature ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| represents |
devotion
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human love ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
devoted admirer of Séraphîta
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embodiment of earthly, human affection ⓘ |
| thematicFunction | contrast to spiritual and androgynous ideal ⓘ |
| workPublicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Minna Description of subject: Minna is a character in Honoré de Balzac’s mystical novel "Séraphîta," representing human love and devotion in contrast to the work’s spiritual and androgynous protagonist.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dame Minna Jane Ollie Croft Young