Madame Pichon
E344493
Madame Pichon is a minor fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the petty-bourgeois milieu of a Parisian apartment building.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madame Pichon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3234751 — 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 Pichon Context triple: [Pot-Bouille, character, Madame Pichon]
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A.
Madame Campardon
Madame Campardon is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the era’s domestic hypocrisies and social pretenses.
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B.
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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C.
Madame Josserand
Madame Josserand is a domineering, socially ambitious bourgeois matron in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," obsessed with arranging advantageous marriages for her daughters.
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D.
Pierrette
Pierrette is a French feminine given name, traditionally considered the female form of Pierre.
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E.
Madame L'Espanaye
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."
- 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 Pichon Target entity description: Madame Pichon is a minor fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the petty-bourgeois milieu of a Parisian apartment building.
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A.
Madame Campardon
Madame Campardon is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the era’s domestic hypocrisies and social pretenses.
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B.
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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C.
Madame Josserand
Madame Josserand is a domineering, socially ambitious bourgeois matron in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," obsessed with arranging advantageous marriages for her daughters.
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D.
Pierrette
Pierrette is a French feminine given name, traditionally considered the female form of Pierre.
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E.
Madame L'Espanaye
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ minor character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Pot-Bouille ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Les Rougon-Macquart ⓘ |
| authorWorkLanguage | French ⓘ |
| basedOn | contemporary Parisian petty bourgeoisie ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| depicts | Parisian middle-class domestic life ⓘ |
| fictionalResidence |
Paris
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apartment building on Rue de Choiseul ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Les Rougon-Macquart universe ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1882 ⓘ |
| genre | naturalist literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | naturalism ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | represents petty-bourgeois milieu ⓘ |
| partOfWork | ensemble cast of Pot-Bouille ⓘ |
| roleInWork | tenant in a Parisian apartment building ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th-century Paris ⓘ |
| socialClass | petty bourgeoisie ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | French ⓘ |
| workTitleInOriginalLanguage | Pot-Bouille ⓘ |
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 Pichon Description of subject: Madame Pichon is a minor fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the petty-bourgeois milieu of a Parisian apartment building.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.