Maître Cornélius
E1009627
Maître Cornélius is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, set in late 15th-century France, that explores themes of greed, suspicion, and intrigue around a royal goldsmith accused of theft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maître Cornélius canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12884196 — 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: Maître Cornélius Context triple: [Études philosophiques, hasPart, Maître Cornélius]
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A.
Mr. Boncassen
Mr. Boncassen is a scholarly American gentleman in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels, known as the learned and socially unpretentious father of Isabel Boncassen.
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B.
Mr. Vandemar
Mr. Vandemar is a brutal, seemingly immortal assassin and one of the primary antagonists in Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel "Neverwhere."
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C.
Dr. Marinus
Dr. Marinus is a recurring, reincarnating character in David Mitchell’s interconnected novels, often portrayed as a brilliant, enigmatic physician or scholar who links different stories and timelines.
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D.
Jerry Cornelius
Jerry Cornelius is a recurring, genre-blending antihero created by Michael Moorcock, known as a stylish, anarchic, and ambiguously moral adventurer in a surreal, dystopian near-future.
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E.
George Blaurock
George Blaurock was an early leader of the Swiss Anabaptist movement and one of the founding figures of the Swiss Brethren during the Protestant Reformation.
- 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: Maître Cornélius Target entity description: Maître Cornélius is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, set in late 15th-century France, that explores themes of greed, suspicion, and intrigue around a royal goldsmith accused of theft.
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A.
Mr. Boncassen
Mr. Boncassen is a scholarly American gentleman in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels, known as the learned and socially unpretentious father of Isabel Boncassen.
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B.
Mr. Vandemar
Mr. Vandemar is a brutal, seemingly immortal assassin and one of the primary antagonists in Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel "Neverwhere."
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C.
Dr. Marinus
Dr. Marinus is a recurring, reincarnating character in David Mitchell’s interconnected novels, often portrayed as a brilliant, enigmatic physician or scholar who links different stories and timelines.
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D.
Jerry Cornelius
Jerry Cornelius is a recurring, genre-blending antihero created by Michael Moorcock, known as a stylish, anarchic, and ambiguously moral adventurer in a surreal, dystopian near-future.
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E.
George Blaurock
George Blaurock was an early leader of the Swiss Anabaptist movement and one of the founding figures of the Swiss Brethren during the Protestant Reformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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short story ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | French ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType | goldsmith ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext | late Middle Ages in France ⓘ |
| hasMotive |
depiction of courtly intrigue
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exploration of human avarice ⓘ exploration of mistrust ⓘ |
| includedInCycle | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | French literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Maître Cornélius ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
greed
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intrigue ⓘ suspicion ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| plotElement | royal goldsmith accused of theft ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | royal goldsmith ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 15th century ⓘ |
| settingPlace | France ⓘ |
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: Maître Cornélius Description of subject: Maître Cornélius is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, set in late 15th-century France, that explores themes of greed, suspicion, and intrigue around a royal goldsmith accused of theft.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.