Fouan
E1081033
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Fouan is a central peasant patriarch in Émile Zola’s novel *La Terre*, embodying the harsh realities and generational conflicts of rural French life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fouan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14106679 — 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: Fouan Context triple: [La Terre, character, Fouan]
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A.
Bouguenais
Bouguenais is a suburban commune in western France, located near Nantes and known for hosting Nantes Atlantique Airport.
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B.
Pertuis
Pertuis is a commune in southeastern France’s Vaucluse department, known as a gateway to the Luberon region and part of the Aix-en-Provence urban area.
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C.
Pontgouin
Pontgouin is a small commune in northern France’s Eure-et-Loir department, known for its rural setting and the Eure River running through it.
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D.
Boucau
Boucau is a small commune in southwestern France’s Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, near the Atlantic coast and the city of Bayonne.
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E.
Baie-Mahault
Baie-Mahault is a major commune on the island of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe, known as an important industrial and commercial center in the French Caribbean.
- 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: Fouan Target entity description: Fouan is a central peasant patriarch in Émile Zola’s novel *La Terre*, embodying the harsh realities and generational conflicts of rural French life.
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A.
Bouguenais
Bouguenais is a suburban commune in western France, located near Nantes and known for hosting Nantes Atlantique Airport.
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B.
Pertuis
Pertuis is a commune in southeastern France’s Vaucluse department, known as a gateway to the Luberon region and part of the Aix-en-Provence urban area.
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C.
Pontgouin
Pontgouin is a small commune in northern France’s Eure-et-Loir department, known for its rural setting and the Eure River running through it.
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D.
Boucau
Boucau is a small commune in southwestern France’s Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, near the Atlantic coast and the city of Bayonne.
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E.
Baie-Mahault
Baie-Mahault is a major commune on the island of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe, known as an important industrial and commercial center in the French Caribbean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.