Albertine Simonet
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Albertine Simonet is a central, enigmatic love interest of the narrator in Marcel Proust’s novel cycle "In Search of Lost Time," embodying themes of desire, jealousy, and the elusiveness of truth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Albertine Simonet canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8545744 — 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: Albertine Simonet Context triple: [In Search of Lost Time, keyCharacter, Albertine Simonet]
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A.
Camille Lefèvre
Camille Lefèvre was a Swiss architect best known for co-designing the Palais des Nations, the former League of Nations headquarters in Geneva.
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B.
Jacqueline de Croisset
Jacqueline de Croisset was the wife of Russian-born American actor Yul Brynner, known primarily for her marriage to the Oscar-winning star of "The King and I."
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C.
Margot Verger
Margot Verger is a character in Thomas Harris's Hannibal universe, depicted as the abused, bodybuilding sister of sadistic millionaire Mason Verger.
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D.
Juliette Roche
Juliette Roche was a French painter and writer associated with the Cubist and Dada movements in the early 20th century.
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E.
Camille Mauclair
Camille Mauclair was a French Symbolist writer, art critic, and poet known for his influential essays and biographies on contemporary artists and literary figures.
- 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: Albertine Simonet Target entity description: Albertine Simonet is a central, enigmatic love interest of the narrator in Marcel Proust’s novel cycle "In Search of Lost Time," embodying themes of desire, jealousy, and the elusiveness of truth.
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A.
Camille Lefèvre
Camille Lefèvre was a Swiss architect best known for co-designing the Palais des Nations, the former League of Nations headquarters in Geneva.
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B.
Jacqueline de Croisset
Jacqueline de Croisset was the wife of Russian-born American actor Yul Brynner, known primarily for her marriage to the Oscar-winning star of "The King and I."
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C.
Margot Verger
Margot Verger is a character in Thomas Harris's Hannibal universe, depicted as the abused, bodybuilding sister of sadistic millionaire Mason Verger.
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D.
Juliette Roche
Juliette Roche was a French painter and writer associated with the Cubist and Dada movements in the early 20th century.
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E.
Camille Mauclair
Camille Mauclair was a French Symbolist writer, art critic, and poet known for his influential essays and biographies on contemporary artists and literary figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Proust character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
In Search of Lost Time
NERFINISHED
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À la recherche du temps perdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInPart |
Sodom and Gomorrah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Fugitive NERFINISHED ⓘ The Guermantes Way NERFINISHED ⓘ The Prisoner NERFINISHED ⓘ Within a Budding Grove NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
control
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desire ⓘ freedom ⓘ homosexuality ⓘ jealousy ⓘ memory ⓘ possession ⓘ sexual ambiguity ⓘ the elusiveness of truth ⓘ |
| basedOn | Alfred Agostinelli (commonly cited inspiration) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causesInNarrator |
fear of abandonment
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intense jealousy ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
elusive
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enigmatic ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| createdBy | Marcel Proust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDescribedAs | reported accident ⓘ |
| diesInNarrative | true ⓘ |
| firstMeetsNarratorAt | Balbec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAmbiguousSexuality | true ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | one of the most analyzed characters in Proust’s work ⓘ |
| livesWith | the narrator in Paris (in The Prisoner) ⓘ |
| memberOf | the little band of girls at Balbec ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for the narrator’s jealousy
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focus of the narrator’s attempts to know another person fully ⓘ object of obsessive love ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| posthumousRole | continues to haunt the narrator’s memory ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | the unnamed first‑person narrator ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central female figure in the narrator’s emotional life
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love interest of the narrator ⓘ |
| rumoredToHaveRelationshipsWith | women ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
the constructed nature of romantic love
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the impossibility of fully knowing another person ⓘ the instability of desire ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Albertine Simonet Description of subject: Albertine Simonet is a central, enigmatic love interest of the narrator in Marcel Proust’s novel cycle "In Search of Lost Time," embodying themes of desire, jealousy, and the elusiveness of truth.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
In Search of Lost Time