Grandet family
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The Grandet family is a central bourgeois household in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Eugénie Grandet," known for its extreme miserliness and the oppressive atmosphere it creates around its members and servants.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grandet family canonical | 3 |
| Félix Grandet | 2 |
| Grandet household | 1 |
| Père Grandet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12960436 — 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: Grandet family Context triple: [Nanon, employedBy, Grandet family]
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A.
Rougon family
The Rougon family is the ambitious, socially climbing bourgeois clan at the center of Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle, embodying themes of heredity, power, and corruption in Second Empire France.
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B.
Noailles family
The Noailles family is a prominent French noble lineage that produced influential aristocrats, military leaders, and statesmen from the Ancien Régime through the 19th century.
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C.
Benois family
The Benois family is a prominent Russian artistic dynasty known for its influential painters, architects, and stage designers active from the 19th to early 20th centuries.
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D.
Millepied family
The Millepied family is a prominent artistic family best known for its connection to French choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied and actress Natalie Portman.
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E.
Petit family
The Petit family is a prominent Parsi industrial and philanthropic dynasty in India, historically influential in textiles, business, and public life.
- 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: Grandet family Target entity description: The Grandet family is a central bourgeois household in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Eugénie Grandet," known for its extreme miserliness and the oppressive atmosphere it creates around its members and servants.
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A.
Rougon family
The Rougon family is the ambitious, socially climbing bourgeois clan at the center of Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle, embodying themes of heredity, power, and corruption in Second Empire France.
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B.
Noailles family
The Noailles family is a prominent French noble lineage that produced influential aristocrats, military leaders, and statesmen from the Ancien Régime through the 19th century.
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C.
Benois family
The Benois family is a prominent Russian artistic dynasty known for its influential painters, architects, and stage designers active from the 19th to early 20th centuries.
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D.
Millepied family
The Millepied family is a prominent artistic family best known for its connection to French choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied and actress Natalie Portman.
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E.
Petit family
The Petit family is a prominent Parsi industrial and philanthropic dynasty in India, historically influential in textiles, business, and public life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bourgeois household
ⓘ
fictional family ⓘ literary character group ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Eugénie Grandet ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | realist novel ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
emotional repression
ⓘ
rigid frugality ⓘ |
| controls | household finances ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| employs | Nanon ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1833 ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Charles Grandet
ⓘ
Eugénie Grandet ⓘ Félix Grandet ⓘ
linked to:
Grandet family
Madame Grandet ⓘ
linked to:
Eugénie Grandet
|
| hasServant | Nanon ⓘ |
| headedBy |
Félix Grandet
ⓘ
linked to:
Eugénie Grandet
|
| influences | Eugénie Grandet’s emotional development ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extreme miserliness
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oppressive domestic atmosphere ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| locatedInWork | Saumur ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| residesIn | Saumur ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Restoration France ⓘ |
| socialClass | bourgeoisie ⓘ |
| themeOf |
avarice
ⓘ
domestic tyranny ⓘ provincial bourgeois life ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Grandet family Description of subject: The Grandet family is a central bourgeois household in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Eugénie Grandet," known for its extreme miserliness and the oppressive atmosphere it creates around its members and servants.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Grandet family
linked to: Grandet family
linked to: Grandet family