Georges Pontmercy
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Georges Pontmercy is a former Napoleonic officer and the idealized, politically passionate father of Marius Pontmercy in Victor Hugo’s novel "Les Misérables."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Georges Pontmercy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5885175 — 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: Georges Pontmercy Context triple: [Marius Pontmercy, father, Georges Pontmercy]
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Marius Pontmercy
Marius Pontmercy is a central character in Victor Hugo’s novel *Les Misérables*, a young idealistic law student and revolutionary who falls in love with Cosette.
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B.
Augustus Melmotte
Augustus Melmotte is a wealthy, unscrupulous financier whose rise and fall in Victorian high society drives the satirical plot of Anthony Trollope's novel "The Way We Live Now."
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C.
Valentine de Villefort
Valentine de Villefort is a gentle, virtuous young woman in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Count of Monte Cristo," known for her tragic family circumstances and her forbidden love for Maximilien Morrel.
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D.
Claude Lantier
Claude Lantier is a passionate, often tormented painter in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, embodying the struggles of artistic genius and social alienation in 19th-century France.
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E.
Jules Gilliéron
Jules Gilliéron was a pioneering Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist best known for his foundational work in Romance linguistics and the creation of the Atlas linguistique de la France.
- 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: Georges Pontmercy Target entity description: Georges Pontmercy is a former Napoleonic officer and the idealized, politically passionate father of Marius Pontmercy in Victor Hugo’s novel "Les Misérables."
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A.
Marius Pontmercy
Marius Pontmercy is a central character in Victor Hugo’s novel *Les Misérables*, a young idealistic law student and revolutionary who falls in love with Cosette.
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B.
Augustus Melmotte
Augustus Melmotte is a wealthy, unscrupulous financier whose rise and fall in Victorian high society drives the satirical plot of Anthony Trollope's novel "The Way We Live Now."
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C.
Valentine de Villefort
Valentine de Villefort is a gentle, virtuous young woman in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Count of Monte Cristo," known for her tragic family circumstances and her forbidden love for Maximilien Morrel.
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D.
Claude Lantier
Claude Lantier is a passionate, often tormented painter in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, embodying the struggles of artistic genius and social alienation in 19th-century France.
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E.
Jules Gilliéron
Jules Gilliéron was a pioneering Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist best known for his foundational work in Romance linguistics and the creation of the Atlas linguistique de la France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Character in Les Misérables
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Fictional character ⓘ |
| allegiance | Napoleonic Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Les Misérables NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | Novel ⓘ |
| asksOf | Marius Pontmercy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Fathers and sons
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Memory and idealization ⓘ Political identity ⓘ |
| bequeathsTo | Marius Pontmercy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bequestContent | Title and memory of his military service ⓘ |
| causeOfEstrangement | Hostility of Marius’s royalist grandfather ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Monsieur Gillenormand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalActivity | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Victor Hugo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diesBefore | Main events of Les Misérables ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Marius Pontmercy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Les Misérables universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1862 ⓘ |
| grandfatherOf | — ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Marius Pontmercy
NERFINISHED
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Monsieur Gillenormand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Colonel ⓘ |
| healthStatus | Sickly in later life ⓘ |
| isIdealizedBy | Marius Pontmercy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| lastRequest | To honor Thénardier as his supposed savior ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century French literature ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | Honorable ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | Influence on Marius Pontmercy’s political beliefs ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | Symbol of Napoleonic and republican ideals ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| occupation | Officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| perceptionBySociety | Viewed with suspicion by royalists ⓘ |
| politicalOrientation |
Bonapartist
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Republican sympathizer ⓘ |
| reasonForConflict | Opposing political views ⓘ |
| relationshipWithMarius | Estranged during Marius’s childhood ⓘ |
| rescuedBy | Thénardier (as Georges believes) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Vernon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Napoleon Bonaparte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Madame Pontmercy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Georges Pontmercy Description of subject: Georges Pontmercy is a former Napoleonic officer and the idealized, politically passionate father of Marius Pontmercy in Victor Hugo’s novel "Les Misérables."
Referenced by (1)
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