Guy de Maupassant
E221882
Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French writer renowned for his masterful short stories and realist novels depicting everyday life and human psychology.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guy de Maupassant canonical | 10 |
| Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant | 1 |
| de Maupassant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1980348 — 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: Guy de Maupassant Context triple: [Montparnasse Cemetery, burialPlaceOf, Guy de Maupassant]
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A.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was a 19th-century French novelist renowned for his meticulous style and his seminal realist work "Madame Bovary."
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B.
Maurice Renard
Maurice Renard was a French writer best known for his early 20th-century science fiction and fantastical novels that explored themes of the uncanny and the supernatural.
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C.
Émile Zola
Émile Zola was a leading 19th-century French novelist, critic, and public intellectual whose socially engaged, naturalist works and interventions like the "J'accuse…!" letter made him a central figure in modern European literature and politics.
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D.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Joris-Karl Huysmans was a French novelist best known for his decadent and symbolist masterpiece "À rebours" and for his later spiritually focused, Catholic-themed works.
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E.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright best known for his vast interconnected series of novels and stories, "La Comédie Humaine," which offers a detailed, panoramic portrayal of French society.
- 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: Guy de Maupassant Target entity description: Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French writer renowned for his masterful short stories and realist novels depicting everyday life and human psychology.
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A.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was a 19th-century French novelist renowned for his meticulous style and his seminal realist work "Madame Bovary."
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B.
Maurice Renard
Maurice Renard was a French writer best known for his early 20th-century science fiction and fantastical novels that explored themes of the uncanny and the supernatural.
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C.
Émile Zola
Émile Zola was a leading 19th-century French novelist, critic, and public intellectual whose socially engaged, naturalist works and interventions like the "J'accuse…!" letter made him a central figure in modern European literature and politics.
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D.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Joris-Karl Huysmans was a French novelist best known for his decadent and symbolist masterpiece "À rebours" and for his later spiritually focused, Catholic-themed works.
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E.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright best known for his vast interconnected series of novels and stories, "La Comédie Humaine," which offers a detailed, panoramic portrayal of French society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Guy de Maupassant Description of subject: Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French writer renowned for his masterful short stories and realist novels depicting everyday life and human psychology.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
this entity surface form:
de Maupassant
subject surface form:
Montparnasse Cemetery
subject surface form:
Naturalism (literature)