Claire d’Orbe
E908599
Claire d’Orbe is a character in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel "Julie, or the New Heloise," known as a close confidante and correspondent of Saint-Preux.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Claire d’Orbe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11174238 — 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: Claire d’Orbe Context triple: [Saint-Preux, communicatesWith, Claire d’Orbe]
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Ancelina of Lenzburg
Ancelina of Lenzburg was a medieval noblewoman from the House of Lenzburg who became Countess of Savoy through her marriage to Humbert I, an early ruler of the Savoyard dynasty.
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B.
Almire Gandonnière
Almire Gandonnière was a 19th-century French writer best known for collaborating with Hector Berlioz on the libretto of the dramatic work "La damnation de Faust."
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C.
Olympe de Soissons
Olympe de Soissons was a 17th-century French noblewoman and courtier, niece of Cardinal Mazarin, known for her influence at the court of Louis XIV and her alleged involvement in the Affair of the Poisons.
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D.
Anne Clarges
Anne Clarges was the wife of English general and statesman George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, who played a key role in the Restoration of Charles II.
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E.
d’Esmier d’Olbreuse
d’Esmier d’Olbreuse is a French noble family name historically associated with Eleonore d’Esmier d’Olbreuse, the morganatic wife of George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and ancestress of several European royal lines.
- 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: Claire d’Orbe Target entity description: Claire d’Orbe is a character in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel "Julie, or the New Heloise," known as a close confidante and correspondent of Saint-Preux.
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A.
Ancelina of Lenzburg
Ancelina of Lenzburg was a medieval noblewoman from the House of Lenzburg who became Countess of Savoy through her marriage to Humbert I, an early ruler of the Savoyard dynasty.
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B.
Almire Gandonnière
Almire Gandonnière was a 19th-century French writer best known for collaborating with Hector Berlioz on the libretto of the dramatic work "La damnation de Faust."
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C.
Olympe de Soissons
Olympe de Soissons was a 17th-century French noblewoman and courtier, niece of Cardinal Mazarin, known for her influence at the court of Louis XIV and her alleged involvement in the Affair of the Poisons.
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D.
Anne Clarges
Anne Clarges was the wife of English general and statesman George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, who played a key role in the Restoration of Charles II.
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E.
d’Esmier d’Olbreuse
d’Esmier d’Olbreuse is a French noble family name historically associated with Eleonore d’Esmier d’Olbreuse, the morganatic wife of George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and ancestress of several European royal lines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epistolary novel character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Julie, or the New Heloise
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
La Nouvelle Héloïse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
friendship
ⓘ
love ⓘ morality ⓘ sensibility ⓘ social conventions ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jean-Jacques Rousseau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | not historical person ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Julie, or the New Heloise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | epistolary novel ⓘ |
| hasFriendshipWith | Saint-Preux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isConfidanteOf |
Julie d’Étanges
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saint-Preux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCorrespondentOf | Saint-Preux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFriendOf | Julie d’Étanges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | French ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| mediumOfExpression | letters ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
confidante
ⓘ
letter writer ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | Genevan ⓘ |
| workForm | novel in letters ⓘ |
| workOriginalTitle | Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1761 ⓘ |
| workTitleFull | Julie, or the New Heloise: Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Claire d’Orbe Description of subject: Claire d’Orbe is a character in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel "Julie, or the New Heloise," known as a close confidante and correspondent of Saint-Preux.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.