Eugénie Grandet
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Eugénie Grandet is a classic 1833 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the emotional and social struggles of a young woman in a provincial French town dominated by greed and miserliness.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eugénie Grandet canonical | 12 |
| Eugénie Grandet (character) | 2 |
| Félix Grandet | 2 |
| Charles Grandet | 1 |
| Madame Grandet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505505 — 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: Eugénie Grandet Context triple: [Honoré de Balzac, notableWork, Eugénie Grandet]
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A.
Pierrette
Pierrette is a French feminine given name, traditionally considered the female form of Pierre.
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B.
Marguerite Gaudelet
Marguerite Gaudelet was the wife of French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel, famed designer of the Eiffel Tower.
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C.
Pierre
Pierre is a masculine given name of French origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures in history, arts, and science.
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D.
Dugny
Dugny is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France, situated near Le Bourget Airport and known for its proximity to major aviation and aerospace facilities.
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E.
Marguerite De La Motte
Marguerite De La Motte was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles in early 1920s adventure and drama films.
- 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: Eugénie Grandet Target entity description: Eugénie Grandet is a classic 1833 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the emotional and social struggles of a young woman in a provincial French town dominated by greed and miserliness.
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A.
Pierrette
Pierrette is a French feminine given name, traditionally considered the female form of Pierre.
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B.
Marguerite Gaudelet
Marguerite Gaudelet was the wife of French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel, famed designer of the Eiffel Tower.
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C.
Pierre
Pierre is a masculine given name of French origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures in history, arts, and science.
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D.
Dugny
Dugny is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France, situated near Le Bourget Airport and known for its proximity to major aviation and aerospace facilities.
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E.
Marguerite De La Motte
Marguerite De La Motte was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles in early 1920s adventure and drama films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| characterFocus | emotional and social struggles of a young woman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts |
conflict between love and money
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provincial French town dominated by greed ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | serial publication ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological novel
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realist novel ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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stage adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| includedInCycle | Scènes de la vie de province ⓘ |
| influenced | later realist fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | realism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | considered a classic of French literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Eugénie Grandet
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Charles Grandet
Eugénie Grandet self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Eugénie Grandet (character)
Eugénie Grandet self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Félix Grandet
Eugénie Grandet self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Madame Grandet
Nanon ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed depiction of bourgeois society
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portrayal of avarice in provincial France ⓘ psychological depth of characters ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Eugénie Grandet self-link ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| placeInAuthorCorpus | early work in La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| protagonist |
Eugénie Grandet
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Eugénie Grandet (character)
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| publicationYear | 1833 ⓘ |
| publisher | French publishers of the 19th century ⓘ |
| series | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| settingCountry | France ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Saumur ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| theme |
family relationships
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female sacrifice ⓘ greed ⓘ miserliness ⓘ money and power ⓘ provincial life ⓘ social ambition ⓘ |
| workType | novel ⓘ |
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: Eugénie Grandet Description of subject: Eugénie Grandet is a classic 1833 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the emotional and social struggles of a young woman in a provincial French town dominated by greed and miserliness.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eugénie Grandet (character)
this entity surface form:
Félix Grandet
this entity surface form:
Charles Grandet
this entity surface form:
Madame Grandet
this entity surface form:
Eugénie Grandet (character)
subject surface form:
La Comédie humaine
this entity surface form:
Félix Grandet
subject surface form:
Honoré de Balzac