L’Avare
E118406
L’Avare is a classic 17th-century comedic play by Molière that satirizes greed through the miserly character of Harpagon.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Miser | 3 |
| L’Avare canonical | 1 |
| L’Avare ou l’École du mensonge | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T987110 — 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: L’Avare Context triple: [Molière, notableWork, L’Avare]
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A.
Tartuffe
Tartuffe is a classic 17th-century French comedic play by Molière that satirizes religious hypocrisy through the story of a pious fraud who deceives a wealthy household.
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B.
Le Misanthrope
Le Misanthrope is a classic 17th-century French comedy play by Molière that satirizes social hypocrisy through the story of a man who despises the insincerity of aristocratic society.
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C.
Pierrot
Pierrot is a traditional stock character from French pantomime and commedia dell’arte, typically portrayed as a sad, white-faced clown in loose white clothing.
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D.
Le Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot is a classic 1835 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intertwined lives of Parisian society, focusing on themes of ambition, social climbing, and paternal sacrifice.
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E.
Le Neveu de Rameau
Le Neveu de Rameau is a philosophical dialogue by Denis Diderot that satirically explores morality, society, and genius through a conversation between a philosopher and the eccentric nephew of composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.
- 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: L’Avare Target entity description: L’Avare is a classic 17th-century comedic play by Molière that satirizes greed through the miserly character of Harpagon.
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A.
Tartuffe
Tartuffe is a classic 17th-century French comedic play by Molière that satirizes religious hypocrisy through the story of a pious fraud who deceives a wealthy household.
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B.
Le Misanthrope
Le Misanthrope is a classic 17th-century French comedy play by Molière that satirizes social hypocrisy through the story of a man who despises the insincerity of aristocratic society.
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C.
Pierrot
Pierrot is a traditional stock character from French pantomime and commedia dell’arte, typically portrayed as a sad, white-faced clown in loose white clothing.
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D.
Le Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot is a classic 1835 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intertwined lives of Parisian society, focusing on themes of ambition, social climbing, and paternal sacrifice.
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E.
Le Neveu de Rameau
Le Neveu de Rameau is a philosophical dialogue by Denis Diderot that satirically explores morality, society, and genius through a conversation between a philosopher and the eccentric nephew of composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French play
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comedy ⓘ play ⓘ theatrical work ⓘ |
| author | Molière ⓘ |
| centuryOfCreation | 17th century ⓘ |
| character |
Anselme
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Cléante ⓘ Frosine ⓘ Harpagon ⓘ Mariane ⓘ Maître Jacques ⓘ Valère ⓘ Élise ⓘ |
| characterTraitOfMainCharacter | miserliness ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1668 ⓘ |
| firstPerformedAt | Théâtre du Palais-Royal ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Parisian publishers of the 17th century ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy of manners
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satire ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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stage revivals ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
arranged marriage
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parent–child relationships ⓘ |
| influenced | later comedies about misers ⓘ |
| intendedMedium | stage ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | French classical theatre ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Classicism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Harpagon ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrait of a miser
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satire of greed ⓘ |
| numberOfActs | 5 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
L’Avare
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
L’Avare ou l’École du mensonge
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| partOf | Molière’s theatrical canon ⓘ |
| performanceType | spoken drama ⓘ |
| protagonist | Harpagon ⓘ |
| setting | Paris ⓘ |
| subjectOf | literary criticism ⓘ |
| theme |
avarice
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family conflict ⓘ greed ⓘ marriage ⓘ social hypocrisy ⓘ |
| titleInEnglish |
L’Avare
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Miser
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: L’Avare Description of subject: L’Avare is a classic 17th-century comedic play by Molière that satirizes greed through the miserly character of Harpagon.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
L’Avare ou l’École du mensonge
this entity surface form:
The Miser
this entity surface form:
The Miser
this entity surface form:
The Miser