Ernest de Restaud
E1026783
Ernest de Restaud is a minor aristocratic character in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Gobseck," representing the declining fortunes and moral complexities of the French nobility.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Count de Restaud | 1 |
| Ernest de Restaud canonical | 1 |
| de Restaud | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13162929 — 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: Ernest de Restaud Context triple: [Gobseck, featuresCharacter, Ernest de Restaud]
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A.
Anastasie de Restaud
Anastasie de Restaud is a central aristocratic character in Balzac’s novel "Le Père Goriot," known as one of Goriot’s ungrateful daughters whose social ambitions drive much of the story’s tragedy.
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B.
Abbé Birotteau
Abbé Birotteau is a timid, naive priest whose misfortunes and conflicts in provincial society form the core of Honoré de Balzac’s novella "Le Curé de Tours."
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C.
Lucien de Rubempré
Lucien de Rubempré is an ambitious but ultimately tragic young poet and social climber in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, whose rise and fall epitomize the corrupting allure of Parisian high society.
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D.
Giorgio Germont
Giorgio Germont is a central baritone character in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera "La traviata," known as Alfredo’s conservative father whose intervention tragically disrupts the lovers’ relationship.
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E.
Eugène de Rastignac
Eugène de Rastignac is an ambitious young law student who rises through Parisian society and serves as one of Honoré de Balzac’s central figures embodying social climbing and moral compromise.
- 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: Ernest de Restaud Target entity description: Ernest de Restaud is a minor aristocratic character in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Gobseck," representing the declining fortunes and moral complexities of the French nobility.
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A.
Anastasie de Restaud
Anastasie de Restaud is a central aristocratic character in Balzac’s novel "Le Père Goriot," known as one of Goriot’s ungrateful daughters whose social ambitions drive much of the story’s tragedy.
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B.
Abbé Birotteau
Abbé Birotteau is a timid, naive priest whose misfortunes and conflicts in provincial society form the core of Honoré de Balzac’s novella "Le Curé de Tours."
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C.
Lucien de Rubempré
Lucien de Rubempré is an ambitious but ultimately tragic young poet and social climber in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, whose rise and fall epitomize the corrupting allure of Parisian high society.
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D.
Giorgio Germont
Giorgio Germont is a central baritone character in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera "La traviata," known as Alfredo’s conservative father whose intervention tragically disrupts the lovers’ relationship.
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E.
Eugène de Rastignac
Eugène de Rastignac is an ambitious young law student who rises through Parisian society and serves as one of Honoré de Balzac’s central figures embodying social climbing and moral compromise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French nobleman
ⓘ
aristocrat ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Gobseck ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | French ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| familyName |
de Restaud
ⓘ
linked to:
Ernest de Restaud
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| genreOfWorkContext | realist novel ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| represents |
declining fortunes of the French nobility
ⓘ
moral complexities of the French aristocracy ⓘ |
| roleInWork | minor character ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
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: Ernest de Restaud Description of subject: Ernest de Restaud is a minor aristocratic character in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Gobseck," representing the declining fortunes and moral complexities of the French nobility.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ernest de Restaud
linked to: Ernest de Restaud