Madame Raquin
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Madame Raquin is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "Thérèse Raquin," depicted as a devoted but ultimately tragic and powerless maternal figure whose life is destroyed by the crimes and betrayals of those she loves.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madame Raquin canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3313663 — 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: Madame Raquin Context triple: [Thérèse Raquin, mainCharacter, Madame Raquin]
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A.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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B.
Camille Raquin
Camille Raquin is a sickly, self-absorbed husband whose murder by his wife Thérèse and her lover drives the plot of Émile Zola’s naturalist novel "Thérèse Raquin."
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C.
Le Soupirant
Le Soupirant is the French title of the 1962 French comedy film "The Suitor," directed by Pierre Étaix.
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D.
Durtal
Durtal is a small commune in western France known for its historic château and picturesque setting along the Loir River.
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E.
La Rabouilleuse
La Rabouilleuse is a novel by Honoré de Balzac, part of his La Comédie humaine cycle, that explores themes of inheritance, family conflict, and social ambition in post-Napoleonic France.
- 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: Madame Raquin Target entity description: Madame Raquin is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "Thérèse Raquin," depicted as a devoted but ultimately tragic and powerless maternal figure whose life is destroyed by the crimes and betrayals of those she loves.
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A.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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B.
Camille Raquin
Camille Raquin is a sickly, self-absorbed husband whose murder by his wife Thérèse and her lover drives the plot of Émile Zola’s naturalist novel "Thérèse Raquin."
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C.
Le Soupirant
Le Soupirant is the French title of the 1962 French comedy film "The Suitor," directed by Pierre Étaix.
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D.
Durtal
Durtal is a small commune in western France known for its historic château and picturesque setting along the Loir River.
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E.
La Rabouilleuse
La Rabouilleuse is a novel by Honoré de Balzac, part of his La Comédie humaine cycle, that explores themes of inheritance, family conflict, and social ambition in post-Napoleonic France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Thérèse Raquin ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | naturalist novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
betrayal
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family ⓘ guilt ⓘ powerlessness ⓘ suffering ⓘ |
| caresFor |
Camille Raquin
ⓘ
Thérèse Raquin ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
affectionate
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devoted ⓘ pious ⓘ powerless ⓘ submissive ⓘ tragic ⓘ |
| createdBy | Émile Zola ⓘ |
| experiences |
betrayal by Laurent
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betrayal by Thérèse ⓘ grief over Camille’s death ⓘ |
| familyName | Raquin ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1867 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Camille Raquin
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Thérèse Raquin ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | French ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widow ⓘ |
| mediumOfWork | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodiment of innocent suffering
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moral center of the family ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| occupation | haberdasher ⓘ |
| organizes | Thursday evening gatherings ⓘ |
| plotInvolvement | victim of the consequences of Thérèse and Laurent’s crime ⓘ |
| relationshipToCamille Raquin | mother ⓘ |
| relationshipToThérèse Raquin |
adoptive mother
ⓘ
aunt ⓘ |
| residence |
Paris
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shop in the Passage du Pont-Neuf ⓘ |
| role |
maternal figure
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supporting character ⓘ |
| settingInWork |
Second Empire of France
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surface form:
Second Empire France
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| suffersFrom |
loss of speech
ⓘ
paralysis ⓘ |
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: Madame Raquin Description of subject: Madame Raquin is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "Thérèse Raquin," depicted as a devoted but ultimately tragic and powerless maternal figure whose life is destroyed by the crimes and betrayals of those she loves.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
In Secret