David Séchard
E502706
David Séchard is a central fictional character in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, depicted as an idealistic young printer and inventor whose struggles embody the social and economic tensions of provincial 19th-century France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Séchard canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3090597 — 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: David Séchard Context triple: [Scènes de la vie de province, hasNotableCharacter, David Séchard]
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A.
Louis Boisot
Louis Boisot was a Dutch nobleman and admiral of the Sea Beggars who played a key role in the Dutch Revolt by helping to relieve the besieged city of Leiden in 1574.
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B.
Daniel Pomarède
Daniel Pomarède is a French astrophysicist known for his work in cosmography and for helping map and characterize large-scale structures of the universe, including major galaxy superclusters.
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C.
Lucien Chardon
Lucien Chardon is the ambitious young poet from the provinces whose rise and fall in Parisian society form the tragic core of Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Illusions perdues."
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D.
Jacques Clément
Jacques Clément was a French Dominican friar and Catholic League fanatic best known for assassinating King Henry III of France in 1589 during the French Wars of Religion.
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E.
Louis Méjan
Louis Méjan was a French political figure known for helping establish the centrist-liberal Democratic Republican Alliance in the early Third Republic.
- 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: David Séchard Target entity description: David Séchard is a central fictional character in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, depicted as an idealistic young printer and inventor whose struggles embody the social and economic tensions of provincial 19th-century France.
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A.
Louis Boisot
Louis Boisot was a Dutch nobleman and admiral of the Sea Beggars who played a key role in the Dutch Revolt by helping to relieve the besieged city of Leiden in 1574.
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B.
Daniel Pomarède
Daniel Pomarède is a French astrophysicist known for his work in cosmography and for helping map and characterize large-scale structures of the universe, including major galaxy superclusters.
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C.
Lucien Chardon
Lucien Chardon is the ambitious young poet from the provinces whose rise and fall in Parisian society form the tragic core of Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Illusions perdues."
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D.
Jacques Clément
Jacques Clément was a French Dominican friar and Catholic League fanatic best known for assassinating King Henry III of France in 1589 during the French Wars of Religion.
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E.
Louis Méjan
Louis Méjan was a French political figure known for helping establish the centrist-liberal Democratic Republican Alliance in the early Third Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Illusions perdues
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La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
paper-making invention
ⓘ
printing press ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
hardworking
ⓘ
honest ⓘ idealistic ⓘ naive ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Cérizet
ⓘ
Jérôme-Nicolas Séchard ⓘ |
| creator | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| familyName | Séchard ⓘ |
| familyRelation | son of Jérôme-Nicolas Séchard ⓘ |
| fictionalResidence | Angoulême ⓘ |
| friendOf | Lucien Chardon ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
French realism
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linked to:
French Realist movement
|
| narrativeRole | protagonist of Illusions perdues ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| occupation |
inventor
ⓘ
printer ⓘ |
| partOf |
La Comédie humaine character cycle
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linked to:
La Comédie humaine
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| relatedWork | Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes ⓘ |
| represents |
provincial middle class
ⓘ
struggling small entrepreneur ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 19th-century France ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ève Chardon
ⓘ
linked to:
Ève Séchard
|
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
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Input
Subject: David Séchard Description of subject: David Séchard is a central fictional character in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, depicted as an idealistic young printer and inventor whose struggles embody the social and economic tensions of provincial 19th-century France.
Referenced by (3)
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