Antoine
E1022947
Antoine is a character in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "The Wild Ass's Skin," appearing within its exploration of desire, fate, and the consequences of wish fulfillment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Antoine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12884292 — 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: Antoine Context triple: [The Wild Ass's Skin, hasCharacter, Antoine]
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A.
Antoine
Antoine is the given name of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the French explorer and founder of Detroit.
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B.
Étienne
Étienne is the given first name of the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé.
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C.
Pierre
Pierre is a masculine given name of French origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures in history, arts, and science.
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D.
Estienne
Estienne is the surname of a prominent French family of Renaissance printers and scholars, notably active in Paris and Geneva.
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E.
Alphonse
Alphonse is the given first name of the infamous American gangster Al Capone, a major organized crime figure during the Prohibition era.
- 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: Antoine Target entity description: Antoine is a character in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "The Wild Ass's Skin," appearing within its exploration of desire, fate, and the consequences of wish fulfillment.
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A.
Antoine
Antoine is the given name of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the French explorer and founder of Detroit.
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B.
Étienne
Étienne is the given first name of the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé.
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C.
Pierre
Pierre is a masculine given name of French origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures in history, arts, and science.
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D.
Estienne
Estienne is the surname of a prominent French family of Renaissance printers and scholars, notably active in Paris and Geneva.
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E.
Alphonse
Alphonse is the given first name of the infamous American gangster Al Capone, a major organized crime figure during the Prohibition era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
La Peau de chagrin
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The Wild Ass's Skin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| genre |
French literature
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fantastic literature ⓘ philosophical novel ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | universe of La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| mainThemeContext |
consequences of wish fulfillment
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desire ⓘ fate ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| workOriginalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| workOriginalTitle | La Peau de chagrin ⓘ |
| workPublicationDate | 1831 ⓘ |
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: Antoine Description of subject: Antoine is a character in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "The Wild Ass's Skin," appearing within its exploration of desire, fate, and the consequences of wish fulfillment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.