Maître Derville
E310129
Maître Derville is a shrewd and principled Parisian lawyer in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Le Colonel Chabert," known for his role in uncovering the truth behind the colonel’s presumed death and lost identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maître Derville canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2901641 — 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.
Target entity: Maître Derville Context triple: [Le Colonel Chabert, mainCharacter, Maître Derville]
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La Bérarde
La Bérarde is a small alpine hamlet in the French Alps, known as a base for mountaineering and hiking in the Écrins massif.
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Monsieur Bonacieux
Monsieur Bonacieux is a minor but pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers," known as Constance Bonacieux's older, miserly husband and d'Artagnan's landlord in Paris.
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C.
Chancer
Chancer is a British television drama series from the early 1990s, centered on a charismatic but morally ambiguous conman navigating high-stakes business and personal intrigues.
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D.
Bigot de Préameneu
Bigot de Préameneu was a French jurist and statesman best known as one of the principal drafters of the Napoleonic Civil Code.
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E.
Moreau
Moreau is a French surname most famously associated with the 19th-century Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Maître Derville Target entity description: Maître Derville is a shrewd and principled Parisian lawyer in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Le Colonel Chabert," known for his role in uncovering the truth behind the colonel’s presumed death and lost identity.
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A.
La Bérarde
La Bérarde is a small alpine hamlet in the French Alps, known as a base for mountaineering and hiking in the Écrins massif.
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B.
Monsieur Bonacieux
Monsieur Bonacieux is a minor but pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers," known as Constance Bonacieux's older, miserly husband and d'Artagnan's landlord in Paris.
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C.
Chancer
Chancer is a British television drama series from the early 1990s, centered on a charismatic but morally ambiguous conman navigating high-stakes business and personal intrigues.
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D.
Bigot de Préameneu
Bigot de Préameneu was a French jurist and statesman best known as one of the principal drafters of the Napoleonic Civil Code.
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E.
Moreau
Moreau is a French surname most famously associated with the 19th-century Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsAs | young lawyer at the beginning of Le Colonel Chabert ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Le Colonel Chabert ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Le Colonel Chabert
ⓘ
surface form:
Colonel Chabert
Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| basedIn | Paris ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ethical
ⓘ
intelligent ⓘ observant ⓘ principled ⓘ professional ⓘ shrewd ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
defending Colonel Chabert’s identity and rights
ⓘ
uncovering the truth about Colonel Chabert’s presumed death ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century French literature ⓘ |
| literaryRole | represents the legal profession in Balzac’s social panorama ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | generally just and fair ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
agent of justice
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mediator between law and individual suffering ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| occupation |
avocat
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lawyer ⓘ |
| roleInWork | shrewd lawyer who investigates Colonel Chabert’s case ⓘ |
| setting | Paris ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Maître Derville Description of subject: Maître Derville is a shrewd and principled Parisian lawyer in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Le Colonel Chabert," known for his role in uncovering the truth behind the colonel’s presumed death and lost identity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.