Gobseck
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Gobseck is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, part of his La Comédie humaine cycle, centered on a cold, calculating moneylender whose life illuminates the power of wealth and the corruption of society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Balzac’s gallery of financiers | 1 |
| Gobseck canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2901459 — 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: Gobseck Context triple: [La Comédie humaine, hasPart, Gobseck]
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A.
Esther Gobseck
Esther Gobseck is a tragic courtesan in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, best known as the central figure of the novel "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes."
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B.
Eugénie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet is a classic 1833 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the emotional and social struggles of a young woman in a provincial French town dominated by greed and miserliness.
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C.
Monsieur Paul
Monsieur Paul is an upscale French restaurant located in the France Pavilion at EPCOT in Walt Disney World Resort, known for its refined cuisine and elegant dining experience.
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D.
Le Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot is a classic 1835 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intertwined lives of Parisian society, focusing on themes of ambition, social climbing, and paternal sacrifice.
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E.
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.
- 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: Gobseck Target entity description: Gobseck is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, part of his La Comédie humaine cycle, centered on a cold, calculating moneylender whose life illuminates the power of wealth and the corruption of society.
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A.
Esther Gobseck
Esther Gobseck is a tragic courtesan in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, best known as the central figure of the novel "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes."
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B.
Eugénie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet is a classic 1833 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the emotional and social struggles of a young woman in a provincial French town dominated by greed and miserliness.
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C.
Monsieur Paul
Monsieur Paul is an upscale French restaurant located in the France Pavilion at EPCOT in Walt Disney World Resort, known for its refined cuisine and elegant dining experience.
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D.
Le Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot is a classic 1835 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intertwined lives of Parisian society, focusing on themes of ambition, social climbing, and paternal sacrifice.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literaryWork
ⓘ
novella ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| belongsTo | French literature ⓘ |
| characterRole | moneylender ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| cycle |
Scènes de la vie privée et publique
ⓘ
surface form:
Scènes de la vie privée
|
| depicts |
Parisian high society
ⓘ
legal profession through Derville ⓘ mechanisms of credit and debt ⓘ |
| explores |
family ruin through debt
ⓘ
relationship between creditor and debtor ⓘ social stratification ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Anastasie de Restaud
ⓘ
Ernest de Restaud ⓘ
surface form:
Count de Restaud
Ernest de Restaud ⓘ Fanny Malvaut ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| genre |
novella
ⓘ
realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasCentralFigureOccupation | usurer ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later depictions of moneylenders in literature ⓘ |
| hasMoralFocus |
consequences of avarice
ⓘ
dehumanizing effect of money ⓘ |
| hasOriginalTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter |
Esther Gobseck
ⓘ
surface form:
Jean-Esther van Gobseck
|
| isPartOfCycleBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Romance languages ⓘ |
| literaryCanonStatus | part of the Balzacian canon ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
French Realist movement
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surface form:
French realism
|
| mainCharacter |
Esther Gobseck
ⓘ
surface form:
Jean-Esther van Gobseck
|
| narrativePerspective | first-person frame narrative ⓘ |
| narrator | Maître Derville ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| setIn | Paris ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Restoration France ⓘ |
| theme |
bourgeois society
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corruption of society ⓘ greed ⓘ moral decay ⓘ power of wealth ⓘ usury ⓘ |
| workInSeries | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| workType | short fiction ⓘ |
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Input
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Referenced by (2)
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