Malot
E1035642
Malot is a French surname most notably borne by Hector Malot, the 19th-century novelist best known for his work "Sans Famille" ("Nobody's Boy").
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13345028 — 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: Malot Context triple: [Hector Malot, familyName, Malot]
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A.
Feuillant
The Feuillants were a moderate monarchist political faction during the French Revolution that supported a constitutional monarchy and opposed the more radical Jacobins.
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B.
Labouret
Labouret is a French surname associated with individuals such as Marie-Louise Élisabeth Labouret.
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C.
Buchillon
Buchillon is a small municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, located on the northern shore of Lake Geneva.
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D.
Sauvy
Sauvy is a French surname most notably borne by Alfred Sauvy, a prominent demographer, sociologist, and economist.
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E.
Barbaroux
Barbaroux is a French surname most notably associated with Charles Barbaroux, a prominent figure of the French Revolution.
- 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: Malot
Target entity description: Malot is a French surname most notably borne by Hector Malot, the 19th-century novelist best known for his work "Sans Famille" ("Nobody's Boy").
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A.
Feuillant
The Feuillants were a moderate monarchist political faction during the French Revolution that supported a constitutional monarchy and opposed the more radical Jacobins.
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B.
Labouret
Labouret is a French surname associated with individuals such as Marie-Louise Élisabeth Labouret.
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C.
Buchillon
Buchillon is a small municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, located on the northern shore of Lake Geneva.
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D.
Sauvy
Sauvy is a French surname most notably borne by Alfred Sauvy, a prominent demographer, sociologist, and economist.
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E.
Barbaroux
Barbaroux is a French surname most notably associated with Charles Barbaroux, a prominent figure of the French Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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human ⓘ literary work ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| author | Hector Malot ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure novel
ⓘ
children's literature ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | Nobody's Boy ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Hector Malot ⓘ |
| hasNotableWorkAssociatedViaBearer |
Nobody's Boy
ⓘ
Sans Famille ⓘ |
| isTranslationOf | Sans Famille ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| notableWork | Sans Famille ⓘ |
| notedFor | authoring the novel "Sans Famille" ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | French ⓘ |
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: Malot
Description of subject: Malot is a French surname most notably borne by Hector Malot, the 19th-century novelist best known for his work "Sans Famille" ("Nobody's Boy").
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.