Madame Vauquer
E310122
Madame Vauquer is the miserly, aging widow who runs the shabby Parisian boarding house in Balzac’s novel "Le Père Goriot."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madame Vauquer canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2901514 — 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: Madame Vauquer Context triple: [Le Père Goriot, containsCharacter, Madame Vauquer]
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A.
Perrette Bade
Perrette Bade was the wife of the renowned 16th-century French printer and scholar Robert Estienne, associated with the influential Estienne family of humanist printers.
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B.
Esther Gobseck
Esther Gobseck is a tragic courtesan in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, best known as the central figure of the novel "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes."
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C.
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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D.
Eugénie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet is a classic 1833 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the emotional and social struggles of a young woman in a provincial French town dominated by greed and miserliness.
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E.
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.
- 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: Madame Vauquer Target entity description: Madame Vauquer is the miserly, aging widow who runs the shabby Parisian boarding house in Balzac’s novel "Le Père Goriot."
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A.
Perrette Bade
Perrette Bade was the wife of the renowned 16th-century French printer and scholar Robert Estienne, associated with the influential Estienne family of humanist printers.
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B.
Esther Gobseck
Esther Gobseck is a tragic courtesan in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, best known as the central figure of the novel "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes."
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C.
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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D.
Eugénie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet is a classic 1833 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the emotional and social struggles of a young woman in a provincial French town dominated by greed and miserliness.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
boarding house keeper
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ widow ⓘ |
| age | middle-aged to elderly ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Le Père Goriot ⓘ |
| associatedWith | pension Vauquer ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
greedy
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miserly ⓘ petty ⓘ self-interested ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| employs |
Christophe
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Sylvie ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| landladyOf |
Eugène de Rastignac
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Jean-Joachim Goriot ⓘ Vautrin ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widow ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notedFor |
stingy treatment of her lodgers
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symbolizing lower-middle-class avarice in Balzac’s work ⓘ |
| occupation |
boarding house owner
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landlady ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| residence |
Paris
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boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève ⓘ |
| runs | a shabby Parisian boarding house ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 19th-century Paris ⓘ |
| socialClass | petite bourgeoisie ⓘ |
| treats | boarders as sources of income ⓘ |
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: Madame Vauquer Description of subject: Madame Vauquer is the miserly, aging widow who runs the shabby Parisian boarding house in Balzac’s novel "Le Père Goriot."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.