Madame Dumay
E1020366
Madame Dumay is a supporting character in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Modeste Mignon," part of the intricate social and domestic world surrounding the heroine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madame Dumay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13034760 — 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: Madame Dumay Context triple: [Modeste Mignon, hasCharacter, Madame Dumay]
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A.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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B.
Madame Ferraud
Madame Ferraud is a French noblewoman character, known as Comtesse Ferraud, from Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine.
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C.
Madame Hedouin
Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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D.
Madame Campardon
Madame Campardon is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the era’s domestic hypocrisies and social pretenses.
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E.
Madame Deschapelles
Madame Deschapelles is a prominent character in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s romantic drama "The Lady of Lyons," known as the ambitious and socially pretentious mother of the heroine Pauline.
- 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: Madame Dumay Target entity description: Madame Dumay is a supporting character in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Modeste Mignon," part of the intricate social and domestic world surrounding the heroine.
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A.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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B.
Madame Ferraud
Madame Ferraud is a French noblewoman character, known as Comtesse Ferraud, from Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine.
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C.
Madame Hedouin
Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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D.
Madame Campardon
Madame Campardon is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the era’s domestic hypocrisies and social pretenses.
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E.
Madame Deschapelles
Madame Deschapelles is a prominent character in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s romantic drama "The Lady of Lyons," known as the ambitious and socially pretentious mother of the heroine Pauline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Modeste Mignon ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
La Comédie humaine cycle of novels
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linked to:
La Comédie humaine
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| associatedWithAuthor | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Modeste Mignon ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInFiction | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1844 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | French realist novel ⓘ |
| hasFictionalStatus | non‑protagonist character ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearsIn | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovementOfWork |
French realism
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linked to:
French Realist movement
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| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | contributes to depiction of bourgeois domestic life ⓘ |
| partOf | the intricate social and domestic world surrounding Modeste Mignon ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
member of Modeste Mignon’s domestic circle
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supporting figure in Modeste Mignon’s social environment ⓘ |
| workSetIn | Le Havre ⓘ |
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: Madame Dumay Description of subject: Madame Dumay is a supporting character in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Modeste Mignon," part of the intricate social and domestic world surrounding the heroine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.