Harpagon
E504678
Harpagon is the miserly, obsessive hoarder of wealth who serves as the comic yet tyrannical central figure in Molière’s play "L’Avare" ("The Miser").
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harpagon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5243697 — 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: Harpagon Context triple: [L’Avare, mainCharacter, Harpagon]
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A.
Cléante
Cléante is a voice-of-reason character in Molière’s play "Tartuffe," known for his rationality, moderation, and moral clarity in contrast to the play’s hypocritical figures.
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B.
Grumio
Grumio is a comic servant character in William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew," known for his humorous misunderstandings and interactions with his master Petruchio.
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C.
Arnolphe
Arnolphe is the domineering, jealous older man in Molière’s comedy *L’École des femmes*, who tries to mold his young ward into an obedient wife only to be undone by love and his own schemes.
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D.
Madame Montoni
Madame Montoni is a domineering and mercenary aunt figure in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho," whose marriage and ambitions help drive the heroine’s misfortunes.
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E.
Esther Gobseck
Esther Gobseck is a tragic courtesan in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, best known as the central figure of the novel "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes."
- 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: Harpagon
Target entity description: Harpagon is the miserly, obsessive hoarder of wealth who serves as the comic yet tyrannical central figure in Molière’s play "L’Avare" ("The Miser").
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A.
Cléante
Cléante is a voice-of-reason character in Molière’s play "Tartuffe," known for his rationality, moderation, and moral clarity in contrast to the play’s hypocritical figures.
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B.
Grumio
Grumio is a comic servant character in William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew," known for his humorous misunderstandings and interactions with his master Petruchio.
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C.
Arnolphe
Arnolphe is the domineering, jealous older man in Molière’s comedy *L’École des femmes*, who tries to mold his young ward into an obedient wife only to be undone by love and his own schemes.
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D.
Madame Montoni
Madame Montoni is a domineering and mercenary aunt figure in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho," whose marriage and ambitions help drive the heroine’s misfortunes.
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E.
Esther Gobseck
Esther Gobseck is a tragic courtesan in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, best known as the central figure of the novel "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
L’Avare
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Miser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWorkLanguage | French ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
authoritarian
ⓘ
controlling ⓘ greedy ⓘ hypocritical ⓘ miserly ⓘ obsessive ⓘ suspicious ⓘ tyrannical ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Cléante
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frosine NERFINISHED ⓘ Valère NERFINISHED ⓘ Élise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Molière NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction |
comic villain
ⓘ
object of satire ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
father of Cléante
ⓘ
father of Élise ⓘ |
| genreContext | comedy ⓘ |
| inspired | later miser characters in literature and theatre ⓘ |
| literaryArchetype | miser archetype ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 17th-century French literature ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extreme avarice
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obsessive hoarding of money ⓘ paranoia about his cash-box ⓘ |
| notableScene | panic over the loss of his cash-box ⓘ |
| occupation | moneylender ⓘ |
| personalityFlaw |
distrust of others
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lack of empathy ⓘ love of money over family ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central figure
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comic figure ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| romanticInterestIn | Mariane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
avarice
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greed ⓘ the vice of miserliness ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
family conflict
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generational conflict ⓘ hypocrisy of bourgeois values ⓘ money and morality ⓘ |
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: Harpagon
Description of subject: Harpagon is the miserly, obsessive hoarder of wealth who serves as the comic yet tyrannical central figure in Molière’s play "L’Avare" ("The Miser").
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.