Orgon
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Orgon is the credulous patriarch in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," whose blind devotion to the hypocritical Tartuffe drives the play’s central conflict.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Orgon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5168981 — 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: Orgon Context triple: [Tartuffe, mainCharacter, Orgon]
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A.
Orthros
Orthros is a daily morning worship service in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches that features psalms, hymns, and prayers preparing the faithful for the Divine Liturgy.
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B.
Agatho
Agatho was a 7th-century pope of the Catholic Church known for his role in the Third Council of Constantinople, which condemned the Monothelite heresy.
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C.
Aeretes
Aeretes is a little-known genus of tree squirrels in the family Sciuridae, native to parts of East Asia.
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D.
Pholus
Pholus is a wise centaur from Greek mythology, best known for his role in the stories surrounding Heracles and the fateful encounter with the poisoned arrows of the Hydra.
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E.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
- 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: Orgon Target entity description: Orgon is the credulous patriarch in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," whose blind devotion to the hypocritical Tartuffe drives the play’s central conflict.
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A.
Orthros
Orthros is a daily morning worship service in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches that features psalms, hymns, and prayers preparing the faithful for the Divine Liturgy.
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B.
Agatho
Agatho was a 7th-century pope of the Catholic Church known for his role in the Third Council of Constantinople, which condemned the Monothelite heresy.
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C.
Aeretes
Aeretes is a little-known genus of tree squirrels in the family Sciuridae, native to parts of East Asia.
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D.
Pholus
Pholus is a wise centaur from Greek mythology, best known for his role in the stories surrounding Heracles and the fateful encounter with the poisoned arrows of the Hydra.
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E.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Tartuffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflictWith | Tartuffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
authoritarian
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credulous ⓘ gullible ⓘ pious (in appearance) ⓘ |
| createdBy | Molière NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorFullName | Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalRole | archetype of the duped head of household in comedy ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction |
embodies the dangers of fanaticism
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serves as a foil to the clear-sighted characters ⓘ |
| employerOf | Dorine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
brother-in-law of Cléante
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father of Damis ⓘ father of Mariane ⓘ husband of Elmire ⓘ son of Madame Pernelle ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceApproxDateOfWork | 1664 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives the main conflict through his devotion to Tartuffe ⓘ |
| nationalTraditionOfWork | French theatre ⓘ |
| notableBehavior |
ignores warnings from his family about Tartuffe
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places blind trust in Tartuffe ⓘ promises his daughter Mariane in marriage to Tartuffe ⓘ signs over his property to Tartuffe ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Cléante
NERFINISHED
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Damis NERFINISHED ⓘ Dorine NERFINISHED ⓘ Elmire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
patriarch of the household
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protagonist ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
authority within the family
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blind faith ⓘ religious hypocrisy ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfWork | 17th century ⓘ |
| undergoesCharacterChange |
recognizes Tartuffe’s hypocrisy
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repents his blind credulity ⓘ |
| workSetting | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workSettingContext | upper-bourgeois household ⓘ |
| workTitleFull | Tartuffe ou l’Imposteur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Orgon Description of subject: Orgon is the credulous patriarch in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," whose blind devotion to the hypocritical Tartuffe drives the play’s central conflict.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.