Rémonencq
E1024112
Rémonencq is a shady Auvergnat junk dealer in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Le Cousin Pons," known for his greed and role in the exploitation of the protagonist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rémonencq canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13163017 — 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: Rémonencq Context triple: [Le Cousin Pons, character, Rémonencq]
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A.
Poiccart
Poiccart is one of the vigilante protagonists in Edgar Wallace’s classic crime thriller series "The Four Just Men."
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B.
Le Vin
Le Vin is a section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal that explores themes of intoxication, escape, and existential despair through the motif of wine.
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C.
Chimay
Chimay is a historic town in the Walloon region of Belgium, renowned for its Trappist brewery and abbey that produce the famous Chimay beers and cheeses.
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D.
Tertre Rouge
Tertre Rouge is a famous right-hand corner on the Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans, leading onto the long Mulsanne Straight and playing a crucial role in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race.
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E.
Vigeois
Vigeois is a commune in the Corrèze department of central France, known for its historic abbey and picturesque rural setting.
- 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: Rémonencq Target entity description: Rémonencq is a shady Auvergnat junk dealer in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Le Cousin Pons," known for his greed and role in the exploitation of the protagonist.
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A.
Poiccart
Poiccart is one of the vigilante protagonists in Edgar Wallace’s classic crime thriller series "The Four Just Men."
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B.
Le Vin
Le Vin is a section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal that explores themes of intoxication, escape, and existential despair through the motif of wine.
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C.
Chimay
Chimay is a historic town in the Walloon region of Belgium, renowned for its Trappist brewery and abbey that produce the famous Chimay beers and cheeses.
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D.
Tertre Rouge
Tertre Rouge is a famous right-hand corner on the Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans, leading onto the long Mulsanne Straight and playing a crucial role in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race.
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E.
Vigeois
Vigeois is a commune in the Corrèze department of central France, known for its historic abbey and picturesque rural setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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fictional character ⓘ junk dealer ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Le Cousin Pons ⓘ |
| appearsInCycle | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Madame Cibot
ⓘ
Sylvain Pons ⓘ Wilhelm Schmucke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessType |
bric-à-brac trader
ⓘ
second-hand dealer ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
greedy
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shady ⓘ unscrupulous ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalActivity | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| creator | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Auvergnat ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Le Cousin Pons ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | realist novel ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| literaryWorkAuthor | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | morally corrupt ⓘ |
| nameInOriginalLanguage | Rémonencq ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coveting Pons’s valuable art collection
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role in the exploitation of Cousin Pons ⓘ |
| occupation | junk dealer ⓘ |
| partOf | characters of La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
exploits the protagonist Sylvain Pons
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participates in the spoliation of Pons’s art collection ⓘ |
| setting | Paris ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Rémonencq Description of subject: Rémonencq is a shady Auvergnat junk dealer in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Le Cousin Pons," known for his greed and role in the exploitation of the protagonist.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.