Cléante
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Cléante is a sensible and sincere young man in Molière’s comedy *Le Malade imaginaire*, serving as the romantic suitor of Angélique and a foil to the play’s hypochondriac protagonist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cléante canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5279979 — 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: Cléante Context triple: [Le Malade imaginaire, character, Cléante]
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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.
Célimène
Célimène is a witty, flirtatious young widow in Molière’s comedy *Le Misanthrope*, whose sharp tongue and social charm embody the hypocrisies of 17th‑century French high society.
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C.
Elmire
Elmire is a central character in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," known as Orgon’s perceptive and virtuous wife who helps expose the hypocrisy of Tartuffe.
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D.
Dorine
Dorine is the sharp-tongued, quick-witted maid in Molière’s play "Tartuffe," known for her bold criticism of hypocrisy and her role as a voice of reason in the household.
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E.
Cunégonde
Cunégonde is a central character in Voltaire’s satirical novella "Candide," known as Candide’s beloved whose misfortunes and changing fortunes mirror the work’s critique of optimism and society.
- 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: Cléante Target entity description: Cléante is a sensible and sincere young man in Molière’s comedy *Le Malade imaginaire*, serving as the romantic suitor of Angélique and a foil to the play’s hypochondriac protagonist.
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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.
Célimène
Célimène is a witty, flirtatious young widow in Molière’s comedy *Le Misanthrope*, whose sharp tongue and social charm embody the hypocrisies of 17th‑century French high society.
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C.
Elmire
Elmire is a central character in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," known as Orgon’s perceptive and virtuous wife who helps expose the hypocrisy of Tartuffe.
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D.
Dorine
Dorine is the sharp-tongued, quick-witted maid in Molière’s play "Tartuffe," known for her bold criticism of hypocrisy and her role as a voice of reason in the household.
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E.
Cunégonde
Cunégonde is a central character in Voltaire’s satirical novella "Candide," known as Candide’s beloved whose misfortunes and changing fortunes mirror the work’s critique of optimism and society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | comedy ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Le Malade imaginaire ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
critique of medical charlatanism
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reason versus obsession ⓘ true love ⓘ |
| belongsToTradition |
French classical theatre
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linked to:
French classicism
|
| characterAgeDescriptor | young man ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
devoted
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honest ⓘ rational ⓘ sensible ⓘ sincere ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
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linked to:
Molière
Molière ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Le Malade imaginaire, 1673
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linked to:
Le Malade imaginaire
|
| hasRelationshipTypeWithAngélique | lover ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipTypeWithArgan | prospective son-in-law ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith |
Angélique
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Argan ⓘ |
| hasRole | romantic suitor of Angélique ⓘ |
| inLoveWith | Angélique ⓘ |
| isFoilTo |
Argan
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the hypochondriac protagonist ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginalWork | French ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
romantic lead
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voice of reason ⓘ |
| opposes | Arranged marriage plans for Angélique ⓘ |
| setIn | 17th-century France ⓘ |
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: Cléante Description of subject: Cléante is a sensible and sincere young man in Molière’s comedy *Le Malade imaginaire*, serving as the romantic suitor of Angélique and a foil to the play’s hypochondriac protagonist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.