Adieu
E326539
Adieu is a short story by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle, depicting themes of love, loss, and psychological trauma.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adieu canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3111092 — 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: Adieu Context triple: [Scènes de la vie parisienne, hasPart, Adieu]
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A.
Goodbye
"Goodbye" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album, *Songs in A Minor*.
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B.
So Long, Farewell
"So Long, Farewell" is a popular song from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *The Sound of Music*, known for its playful farewell sequence performed by the von Trapp children.
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C.
The Last Goodbye
"The Last Goodbye" is a song performed by Scottish actor and musician Billy Boyd, best known as the end-credits theme for the film *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies*.
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D.
Swan Song
"Swan Song" is a segment or episode within the 1924 silent film anthology *A Modern Comedy*, likely serving as one of its narrative parts.
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E.
Say Goodbye
"Say Goodbye" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*.
- 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: Adieu Target entity description: Adieu is a short story by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle, depicting themes of love, loss, and psychological trauma.
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A.
Goodbye
"Goodbye" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album, *Songs in A Minor*.
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B.
So Long, Farewell
"So Long, Farewell" is a popular song from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *The Sound of Music*, known for its playful farewell sequence performed by the von Trapp children.
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C.
The Last Goodbye
"The Last Goodbye" is a song performed by Scottish actor and musician Billy Boyd, best known as the end-credits theme for the film *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies*.
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D.
Swan Song
"Swan Song" is a segment or episode within the 1924 silent film anthology *A Modern Comedy*, likely serving as one of its narrative parts.
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E.
Say Goodbye
"Say Goodbye" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts |
Napoleonic Wars
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loss ⓘ love ⓘ madness ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ |
| genre | short story ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasTitleInOriginalLanguage | Adieu self-link ⓘ |
| includedInCycle |
La Comédie humaine
ⓘ
Scènes de la vie militaire ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Philippe de Sucy
ⓘ
Stéphanie de Vandières ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
France
ⓘ
Russia ⓘ |
| theme |
devotion
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insanity ⓘ memory ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ trauma ⓘ unrequited love ⓘ war and its consequences ⓘ |
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: Adieu Description of subject: Adieu is a short story by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle, depicting themes of love, loss, and psychological trauma.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.