Madame L'Espanaye
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Madame L'Espanaye is a fictional Parisian woman whose brutal and mysterious death forms the central crime investigated in Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madame L'Espanaye canonical | 2 |
| Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1815304 — 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.
Target entity: Madame L'Espanaye Context triple: [The Murders in the Rue Morgue, victim, Madame L'Espanaye]
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Madame Moitessier
Madame Moitessier is a celebrated mid-19th-century portrait painting by French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, renowned for its meticulous detail and idealized depiction of bourgeois elegance.
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Madame de Thianges
Madame de Thianges was a French noblewoman of the 17th century, best known as the sister of Louis XIV’s famous mistress Madame de Montespan and a member of the influential House of Rochechouart.
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Margeride
Margeride is a mountainous and sparsely populated region in south-central France known for its granite plateaus, forests, and traditional rural landscapes.
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Madame Mère
Madame Mère was the honorific title of Letizia Ramolino, the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte and matriarch of the Bonaparte family.
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Hortense Fiquet
Hortense Fiquet was a French model best known as the wife and frequent portrait subject of the painter Paul Cézanne.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Madame L'Espanaye Target entity description: Madame L'Espanaye is a fictional Parisian woman whose brutal and mysterious death forms the central crime investigated in Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
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A.
Madame Moitessier
Madame Moitessier is a celebrated mid-19th-century portrait painting by French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, renowned for its meticulous detail and idealized depiction of bourgeois elegance.
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Madame de Thianges
Madame de Thianges was a French noblewoman of the 17th century, best known as the sister of Louis XIV’s famous mistress Madame de Montespan and a member of the influential House of Rochechouart.
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C.
Margeride
Margeride is a mountainous and sparsely populated region in south-central France known for its granite plateaus, forests, and traditional rural landscapes.
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D.
Madame Mère
Madame Mère was the honorific title of Letizia Ramolino, the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte and matriarch of the Bonaparte family.
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E.
Hortense Fiquet
Hortense Fiquet was a French model best known as the wife and frequent portrait subject of the painter Paul Cézanne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ murder victim ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Murders in the Rue Morgue ⓘ |
| appearsInShortStoryBy | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| createdBy | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| creator | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| deathCause | homicide ⓘ |
| deathCircumstances | apparently impossible crime in a locked room ⓘ |
| deathLocation | apartment in the Rue Morgue ⓘ |
| deathManner | violent death ⓘ |
| familyRelation | mother of Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | C. Auguste Dupin stories ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Murders in the Rue Morgue ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1841 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| investigatedBy |
C. Auguste Dupin
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unnamed narrator of The Murders in the Rue Morgue ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| livesWith |
Madame L'Espanaye
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye
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| name | Madame L'Espanaye self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | being victim in one of the earliest modern detective stories ⓘ |
| residence |
Paris
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Rue Morgue ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central murder victim
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subject of investigation by C. Auguste Dupin ⓘ |
| workGenreContext |
detective fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ |
| workSettingCity | Paris ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Madame L'Espanaye Description of subject: Madame L'Espanaye is a fictional Parisian woman whose brutal and mysterious death forms the central crime investigated in Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
Referenced by (4)
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