Madame Valmondé
E352151
Madame Valmondé is a wealthy, compassionate Louisiana plantation mistress and adoptive mother figure in Kate Chopin’s short story "Désirée’s Baby."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madame Valmondé canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3277301 — 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 Valmondé Context triple: [Désirée’s Baby, mainCharacter, Madame Valmondé]
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A.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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B.
Madame Hedouin
Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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C.
Madame Josserand
Madame Josserand is a domineering, socially ambitious bourgeois matron in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," obsessed with arranging advantageous marriages for her daughters.
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D.
Madame Campardon
Madame Campardon is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the era’s domestic hypocrisies and social pretenses.
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E.
Marguerite Courtot
Marguerite Courtot was an American silent film actress known for her work in early 20th-century cinema, particularly in serials and adventure films.
- 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 Valmondé Target entity description: Madame Valmondé is a wealthy, compassionate Louisiana plantation mistress and adoptive mother figure in Kate Chopin’s short story "Désirée’s Baby."
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A.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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B.
Madame Hedouin
Madame Hédouin is a business-savvy, independent shop owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the emerging class of self-reliant bourgeois women in 19th-century Paris.
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C.
Madame Josserand
Madame Josserand is a domineering, socially ambitious bourgeois matron in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," obsessed with arranging advantageous marriages for her daughters.
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D.
Madame Campardon
Madame Campardon is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the era’s domestic hypocrisies and social pretenses.
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E.
Marguerite Courtot
Marguerite Courtot was an American silent film actress known for her work in early 20th-century cinema, particularly in serials and adventure films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ short story character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Désirée’s Baby
ⓘ
surface form:
"Désirée’s Baby"
|
| associatedWithAuthor |
Désirée’s Baby
ⓘ
surface form:
Kate Chopin’s regional fiction
|
| authorNationality | American (via creator Kate Chopin) ⓘ |
| concernFor |
Désirée’s baby
ⓘ
well-being of Désirée ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Kate Chopin ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Southern plantation culture ⓘ |
| familyRole | mother figure to Désirée ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Kate Chopin
ⓘ
surface form:
Kate Chopin’s works
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American realism ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| moralFunctionInText | embodies compassion and maternal care ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | highlights themes of race and family in "Désirée’s Baby" ⓘ |
| nationalContext |
Louisiana
ⓘ
surface form:
Louisiana, United States
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| occupation | plantation mistress ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
maternal ⓘ |
| relationship | adoptive mother of Désirée ⓘ |
| residence | Louisiana plantation ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| settingContext | Creole society in Louisiana ⓘ |
| socialStatus | wealthy ⓘ |
| timePeriod | antebellum American South ⓘ |
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 Valmondé Description of subject: Madame Valmondé is a wealthy, compassionate Louisiana plantation mistress and adoptive mother figure in Kate Chopin’s short story "Désirée’s Baby."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.