de Mortsauf
E1027703
De Mortsauf is a French noble family name notably associated with the character Comte de Mortsauf in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "The Lily of the Valley."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| de Mortsauf canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13194705 — 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: de Mortsauf Context triple: [Comte de Mortsauf, familyName, de Mortsauf]
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A.
de Mortemart
De Mortemart is the noble French family name of Madame de Montespan, a prominent 17th-century courtier and mistress of King Louis XIV.
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B.
Malemort
Malemort is a commune in the Corrèze department of south-central France, situated near the town of Brive-la-Gaillarde.
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C.
Mortus
Mortus is the main villain of the 1995 Sega Genesis beat ’em up game Comix Zone, a demonic comic-book creator who brings his own drawings to life to battle the hero.
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D.
Morta
Morta is the Roman goddess of death and destiny, one of the three Fates who determines the moment of each mortal’s death by cutting the thread of life.
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E.
Revelge
"Revelge" is a darkly ironic military-themed art song by Gustav Mahler, based on a folk poem from the collection "Des Knaben Wunderhorn."
- 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: de Mortsauf Target entity description: De Mortsauf is a French noble family name notably associated with the character Comte de Mortsauf in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "The Lily of the Valley."
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A.
de Mortemart
De Mortemart is the noble French family name of Madame de Montespan, a prominent 17th-century courtier and mistress of King Louis XIV.
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B.
Malemort
Malemort is a commune in the Corrèze department of south-central France, situated near the town of Brive-la-Gaillarde.
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C.
Mortus
Mortus is the main villain of the 1995 Sega Genesis beat ’em up game Comix Zone, a demonic comic-book creator who brings his own drawings to life to battle the hero.
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D.
Morta
Morta is the Roman goddess of death and destiny, one of the three Fates who determines the moment of each mortal’s death by cutting the thread of life.
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E.
Revelge
"Revelge" is a darkly ironic military-themed art song by Gustav Mahler, based on a folk poem from the collection "Des Knaben Wunderhorn."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional family name
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noble family ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Lily of the Valley ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
aristocracy in decline
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family duty ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional family in literature ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | French realist novel ⓘ |
| hasFamilyMember | Comte de Mortsauf ⓘ |
| hasNobleTitle | Comte de Mortsauf ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Touraine ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| notablyAssociatedWith | Comte de Mortsauf ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
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: de Mortsauf Description of subject: De Mortsauf is a French noble family name notably associated with the character Comte de Mortsauf in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "The Lily of the Valley."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.