Monsieur Valmondé
E352152
Monsieur Valmondé is a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner and the adoptive father of Désirée in Kate Chopin’s short story "Désirée’s Baby."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Monsieur Valmondé canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3277302 — 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: Monsieur Valmondé Context triple: [Désirée’s Baby, mainCharacter, Monsieur Valmondé]
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A.
Monsieur Vabre
Monsieur Vabre is a fictional bourgeois Parisian property owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," embodying the hypocrisies and moral decay of the 19th-century middle class.
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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.
Monsieur Duveyrier
Monsieur Duveyrier is a bourgeois magistrate in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the hypocrisy and moral corruption of Parisian middle-class society.
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D.
Monsieur Josserand
Monsieur Josserand is a bourgeois, status-conscious Parisian father in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," embodying the hypocrisies and social ambitions of the middle class in Second Empire France.
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E.
Monsieur St. Aubert
Monsieur St. Aubert is the gentle, virtuous father of Emily in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho," whose wisdom and sensitivity deeply shape her character and values.
- 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: Monsieur Valmondé Target entity description: Monsieur Valmondé is a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner and the adoptive father of Désirée in Kate Chopin’s short story "Désirée’s Baby."
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A.
Monsieur Vabre
Monsieur Vabre is a fictional bourgeois Parisian property owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," embodying the hypocrisies and moral decay of the 19th-century middle class.
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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.
Monsieur Duveyrier
Monsieur Duveyrier is a bourgeois magistrate in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the hypocrisy and moral corruption of Parisian middle-class society.
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D.
Monsieur Josserand
Monsieur Josserand is a bourgeois, status-conscious Parisian father in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," embodying the hypocrisies and social ambitions of the middle class in Second Empire France.
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E.
Monsieur St. Aubert
Monsieur St. Aubert is the gentle, virtuous father of Emily in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho," whose wisdom and sensitivity deeply shape her character and values.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
adoptive father
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ planter ⓘ |
| adoptiveParentOf | Désirée ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Désirée’s Baby ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Louisiana plantation culture ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
family
ⓘ
identity ⓘ race ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Kate Chopin ⓘ |
| ethnicity | white ⓘ |
| familyName | Valmondé ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1893 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | short story ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovementOfAuthor | American realism ⓘ |
| livesOn | Valmondé plantation ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Madame Valmondé ⓘ |
| occupation | plantation owner ⓘ |
| residence | Louisiana ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | antebellum American South ⓘ |
| socialStatus | wealthy ⓘ |
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: Monsieur Valmondé Description of subject: Monsieur Valmondé is a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner and the adoptive father of Désirée 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.