Elmire
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Elmire is a central character in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," known as Orgon’s perceptive and virtuous wife who helps expose the hypocrisy of Tartuffe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elmire canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5168982 — 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: Elmire Context triple: [Tartuffe, mainCharacter, Elmire]
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A.
Madame Valmondé
Madame Valmondé is a wealthy, compassionate Louisiana plantation mistress and adoptive mother figure in Kate Chopin’s short story "Désirée’s Baby."
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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.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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D.
Madame Hedouin
Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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E.
Marie Melmotte
Marie Melmotte is a central fictional heiress in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Way We Live Now," portrayed in the 2001 TV adaptation as a young woman caught between social ambition, family scandal, and romantic entanglements in Victorian high society.
- 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: Elmire Target entity description: Elmire is a central character in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," known as Orgon’s perceptive and virtuous wife who helps expose the hypocrisy of Tartuffe.
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A.
Madame Valmondé
Madame Valmondé is a wealthy, compassionate Louisiana plantation mistress and adoptive mother figure in Kate Chopin’s short story "Désirée’s Baby."
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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.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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D.
Madame Hedouin
Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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E.
Marie Melmotte
Marie Melmotte is a central fictional heiress in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Way We Live Now," portrayed in the 2001 TV adaptation as a young woman caught between social ambition, family scandal, and romantic entanglements in Victorian high society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| aimsToConvince | Orgon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Tartuffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | French ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Orgon’s household ⓘ |
| centralToPlot | exposure of Tartuffe’s hypocrisy ⓘ |
| characterInAct |
Act II of Tartuffe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Act III of Tartuffe NERFINISHED ⓘ Act IV of Tartuffe NERFINISHED ⓘ Act V of Tartuffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Molière NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| daughterInLawOf | Madame Pernelle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deceives | Tartuffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exposes | Tartuffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceYear | 1664 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
composure
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intelligence ⓘ moral clarity ⓘ prudence ⓘ virtue ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | virtuous ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
foil to Tartuffe
ⓘ
voice of reason ⓘ |
| opposes | Tartuffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | French classical theatre ⓘ |
| relativeOf |
Cléante
NERFINISHED
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Damis NERFINISHED ⓘ Madame Pernelle NERFINISHED ⓘ Mariane NERFINISHED ⓘ Orgon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInTheme |
critique of religious hypocrisy
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defense of moderation ⓘ defense of reason ⓘ |
| sisterInLawOf | Cléante NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Orgon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stepmotherOf |
Damis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mariane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesStratagem | staged seduction scene ⓘ |
| workForm | verse comedy ⓘ |
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: Elmire Description of subject: Elmire is a central character in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," known as Orgon’s perceptive and virtuous wife who helps expose the hypocrisy of Tartuffe.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Elmira