Cosette
E127511
Cosette is a central character in Victor Hugo's novel *Les Misérables*, known as the orphaned daughter of Fantine who is rescued and raised by Jean Valjean.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cosette canonical | 18 |
| Cosette (Volume II) | 1 |
| Cosette in Les Misérables | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105869 — 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: Cosette Context triple: [Les Misérables (2012 film), mainCharacter, Cosette]
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A.
Fantine
Fantine is a tragic young mother in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, whose descent into poverty and sacrifice for her child embodies the novel’s social injustice and emotional core.
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B.
Pierrette
Pierrette is a French feminine given name, traditionally considered the female form of Pierre.
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C.
Marguerite De La Motte
Marguerite De La Motte was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles in early 1920s adventure and drama films.
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D.
Marguerite
Marguerite is a French given name, equivalent to Margaret, commonly used for women and also meaning "daisy" in French.
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E.
Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d’Udekem d’Acoz
Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d’Udekem d’Acoz is the Queen of the Belgians, consort to King Philippe and a prominent member of the Belgian royal family.
- 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: Cosette Target entity description: Cosette is a central character in Victor Hugo's novel *Les Misérables*, known as the orphaned daughter of Fantine who is rescued and raised by Jean Valjean.
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A.
Fantine
Fantine is a tragic young mother in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, whose descent into poverty and sacrifice for her child embodies the novel’s social injustice and emotional core.
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B.
Pierrette
Pierrette is a French feminine given name, traditionally considered the female form of Pierre.
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C.
Marguerite De La Motte
Marguerite De La Motte was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles in early 1920s adventure and drama films.
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D.
Marguerite
Marguerite is a French given name, equivalent to Margaret, commonly used for women and also meaning "daisy" in French.
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E.
Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d’Udekem d’Acoz
Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine d’Udekem d’Acoz is the Queen of the Belgians, consort to King Philippe and a prominent member of the Belgian royal family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Cosette Description of subject: Cosette is a central character in Victor Hugo's novel *Les Misérables*, known as the orphaned daughter of Fantine who is rescued and raised by Jean Valjean.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Les Misérables (2012 film)
this entity surface form:
Cosette in Les Misérables
this entity surface form:
Cosette (Volume II)