Ursule Mirouët (fictional character)
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Ursule Mirouët (fictional character) is the virtuous and orphaned heroine of Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Ursule Mirouët," whose life and inheritance struggles expose the moral and social tensions of a provincial French town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ursule Mirouët (fictional character) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Ursule Mirouët (fictional character) Context triple: [Ursule Mirouët, mainCharacter, Ursule Mirouët (fictional character)]
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Marie Melmotte
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Ermina Hugonin
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Madame Valmondé
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Madame Hedouin
Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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Mathilde Deslonde
Mathilde Deslonde was a 19th-century Louisiana Creole woman best known as the wife of American politician and Confederate diplomat John Slidell.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Ursule Mirouët (fictional character) Target entity description: Ursule Mirouët (fictional character) is the virtuous and orphaned heroine of Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Ursule Mirouët," whose life and inheritance struggles expose the moral and social tensions of a provincial French town.
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A.
Marie Melmotte
Marie Melmotte is a central fictional heiress in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Way We Live Now," portrayed in the 2001 TV adaptation as a young woman caught between social ambition, family scandal, and romantic entanglements in Victorian high society.
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B.
Ermina Hugonin
Ermina Hugonin is a fictional character from Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael mystery novel "The Virgin in the Ice," where she appears as a young noblewoman caught up in the turmoil of civil war–era England.
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C.
Madame Valmondé
Madame Valmondé is a wealthy, compassionate Louisiana plantation mistress and adoptive mother figure in Kate Chopin’s short story "Désirée’s Baby."
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D.
Madame Hedouin
Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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E.
Mathilde Deslonde
Mathilde Deslonde was a 19th-century Louisiana Creole woman best known as the wife of American politician and Confederate diplomat John Slidell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ursule Mirouët NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInCycle | Scènes de la vie de province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
family greed
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justice ⓘ piety ⓘ social hypocrisy ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
inheritance dispute
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provincial society ⓘ religious faith ⓘ virtue versus greed ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Minoret heirs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| familyRelation | ward of Dr. Denis Minoret ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| guardian | Dr. Denis Minoret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Ursule NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Mirouët NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inheritsFrom | Dr. Denis Minoret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| literaryGenreContext | psychological novel ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | French realism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralCharacter | virtuous ⓘ |
| moralOppositionTo | materialism of Minoret relatives ⓘ |
| name | Ursule Mirouët NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
exposes moral tensions in provincial town
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focus of inheritance conflict ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| raisedBy | Dr. Denis Minoret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | heroine ⓘ |
| setting | Nemours NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | orphan ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Christian virtue
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innocence ⓘ moral purity ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| victimOf |
calumny
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legal machinations ⓘ |
| workType | novel ⓘ |
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Subject: Ursule Mirouët (fictional character) Description of subject: Ursule Mirouët (fictional character) is the virtuous and orphaned heroine of Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Ursule Mirouët," whose life and inheritance struggles expose the moral and social tensions of a provincial French town.
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