La Comédie humaine
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La Comédie humaine is Honoré de Balzac’s vast, interconnected cycle of novels and stories depicting French society in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505503 — 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: La Comédie humaine Context triple: [Honoré de Balzac, notableWork, La Comédie humaine]
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A.
Le Siècle
Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
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B.
Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations
Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations is a major historical and philosophical work by Voltaire that surveys world history to critique religious intolerance and promote Enlightenment ideals.
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C.
Le Quatorze Juillet
Le Quatorze Juillet is the French national holiday celebrated on July 14, commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and symbolizing the birth of the French Republic.
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D.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
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E.
La Ville Radieuse
La Ville Radieuse is Le Corbusier’s influential utopian urban planning concept that envisioned a highly ordered, high-density city of towers set within open green spaces.
- 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: La Comédie humaine Target entity description: La Comédie humaine is Honoré de Balzac’s vast, interconnected cycle of novels and stories depicting French society in the early 19th century.
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A.
Le Siècle
Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
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B.
Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations
Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations is a major historical and philosophical work by Voltaire that surveys world history to critique religious intolerance and promote Enlightenment ideals.
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C.
Le Quatorze Juillet
Le Quatorze Juillet is the French national holiday celebrated on July 14, commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and symbolizing the birth of the French Republic.
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D.
La Grenouillère
La Grenouillère is an 1869 Impressionist painting by Claude Monet depicting a lively riverside bathing and boating resort on the Seine near Bougival, France.
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E.
La Ville Radieuse
La Ville Radieuse is Le Corbusier’s influential utopian urban planning concept that envisioned a highly ordered, high-density city of towers set within open green spaces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: La Comédie humaine Description of subject: La Comédie humaine is Honoré de Balzac’s vast, interconnected cycle of novels and stories depicting French society in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (195)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Balzacian universe
subject surface form:
Scènes de la vie de province
this entity surface form:
La Comédie humaine character universe
this entity surface form:
Balzac’s La Comédie humaine universe
subject surface form:
Honoré de Balzac
subject surface form:
Eugénie Grandet