Madame de Merret
E1020367
Madame de Merret is a central figure in Honoré de Balzac’s story “La Grande Bretèche,” known as a tragic, secretive noblewoman whose hidden love affair leads to a horrifying act of vengeance and lifelong remorse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madame de Merret canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13034938 — 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 de Merret Context triple: [La Grande Bretèche, hasCharacter, Madame de Merret]
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A.
Madame de Menon
Madame de Menon is a virtuous and protective governess figure in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "A Sicilian Romance," serving as a moral guide and guardian to the young heroines.
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B.
Madame de Thianges
Madame de Thianges was a French noblewoman of the 17th century, best known as the sister of Louis XIV’s famous mistress Madame de Montespan and a member of the influential House of Rochechouart.
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C.
Françoise Prévost
Françoise Prévost was a French actress and writer known for her work in mid-20th-century European cinema, particularly within the French New Wave.
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D.
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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E.
Agathe de La Boulaye
Agathe de La Boulaye is a French actress known for her roles in international films and television, including the science-fiction horror movie "Alien vs. Predator."
- 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 de Merret Target entity description: Madame de Merret is a central figure in Honoré de Balzac’s story “La Grande Bretèche,” known as a tragic, secretive noblewoman whose hidden love affair leads to a horrifying act of vengeance and lifelong remorse.
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A.
Madame de Menon
Madame de Menon is a virtuous and protective governess figure in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "A Sicilian Romance," serving as a moral guide and guardian to the young heroines.
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B.
Madame de Thianges
Madame de Thianges was a French noblewoman of the 17th century, best known as the sister of Louis XIV’s famous mistress Madame de Montespan and a member of the influential House of Rochechouart.
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C.
Françoise Prévost
Françoise Prévost was a French actress and writer known for her work in mid-20th-century European cinema, particularly within the French New Wave.
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D.
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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E.
Agathe de La Boulaye
Agathe de La Boulaye is a French actress known for her roles in international films and television, including the science-fiction horror movie "Alien vs. Predator."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | La Grande Bretèche ⓘ |
| appearsInCycle | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
adultery
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confinement ⓘ guilt ⓘ remorse ⓘ secrecy ⓘ tragic love ⓘ vengeance ⓘ |
| causeOfRemorse | complicity in the lover’s entombment ⓘ |
| centralConflict | hidden love affair discovered by her husband ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
passionate
ⓘ
remorseful ⓘ secretive ⓘ tragic ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| emotionalOutcome | lifelong remorse ⓘ |
| fictionalResidence | La Grande Bretèche (house in Vendôme) ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
La Grande Bretèche by Honoré de Balzac
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linked to:
La Grande Bretèche
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasLover | Spanish officer ⓘ |
| husbandAction | orders the walling up of the hiding place ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century French literature ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central figure of the backstory in La Grande Bretèche ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| partOfWorkType | short story character ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithSpanishOfficer | adulterous love affair ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse | Monsieur de Merret ⓘ |
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 de Merret Description of subject: Madame de Merret is a central figure in Honoré de Balzac’s story “La Grande Bretèche,” known as a tragic, secretive noblewoman whose hidden love affair leads to a horrifying act of vengeance and lifelong remorse.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.