Jacques Lantier
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Jacques Lantier is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "La Bête humaine," depicted as a tormented railway worker struggling with hereditary madness and violent impulses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacques Lantier canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14834225 — 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: Jacques Lantier Context triple: [Claude Lantier, hasRelative, Jacques Lantier]
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A.
Claude Lantier
Claude Lantier is a passionate, often tormented painter in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, embodying the struggles of artistic genius and social alienation in 19th-century France.
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B.
Pierre Rougon
Pierre Rougon is a central fictional patriarch in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart novel cycle, representing the ambitious, bourgeois founder of the Rougon family dynasty.
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C.
Georges Guétary
Georges Guétary was a French singer, dancer, and actor best known internationally for his role in the classic musical film "An American in Paris."
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D.
Aristide Rougon
Aristide Rougon is a fictional character from Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, best known as the ambitious, unscrupulous financier who rises to power in Second Empire Paris under the name Aristide Saccard.
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E.
Doctor Pascal Rougon
Doctor Pascal Rougon is a recurring figure in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, portrayed as a rational, scientifically minded physician deeply involved in studying heredity within his own extended family.
- 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: Jacques Lantier Target entity description: Jacques Lantier is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "La Bête humaine," depicted as a tormented railway worker struggling with hereditary madness and violent impulses.
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A.
Claude Lantier
Claude Lantier is a passionate, often tormented painter in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, embodying the struggles of artistic genius and social alienation in 19th-century France.
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B.
Pierre Rougon
Pierre Rougon is a central fictional patriarch in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart novel cycle, representing the ambitious, bourgeois founder of the Rougon family dynasty.
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C.
Georges Guétary
Georges Guétary was a French singer, dancer, and actor best known internationally for his role in the classic musical film "An American in Paris."
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D.
Aristide Rougon
Aristide Rougon is a fictional character from Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, best known as the ambitious, unscrupulous financier who rises to power in Second Empire Paris under the name Aristide Saccard.
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E.
Doctor Pascal Rougon
Doctor Pascal Rougon is a recurring figure in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, portrayed as a rational, scientifically minded physician deeply involved in studying heredity within his own extended family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.