Gorgibus
E537331
Gorgibus is a comic bourgeois father in Molière’s play *Les Précieuses ridicules*, exasperated by his daughter and niece’s affected pretensions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gorgibus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5644234 — 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: Gorgibus Context triple: [Les Précieuses ridicules, character, Gorgibus]
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A.
Grumentum
Grumentum was an important ancient city of Lucania in southern Italy, known for its strategic location and Roman-era remains.
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B.
Orlybus
Orlybus is a dedicated airport shuttle bus service connecting central Paris with Orly Airport.
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C.
Evippus
Evippus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as one of the sons of King Thestius and the brother of Althaea.
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D.
Cameirus
Cameirus was one of the principal ancient cities of Rhodes, known for its strategic location and role in the island’s early political and military history.
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E.
Maurus
Maurus is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with early Christian saints and used as a variant of names like Maurice.
- 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: Gorgibus Target entity description: Gorgibus is a comic bourgeois father in Molière’s play *Les Précieuses ridicules*, exasperated by his daughter and niece’s affected pretensions.
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A.
Grumentum
Grumentum was an important ancient city of Lucania in southern Italy, known for its strategic location and Roman-era remains.
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B.
Orlybus
Orlybus is a dedicated airport shuttle bus service connecting central Paris with Orly Airport.
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C.
Evippus
Evippus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as one of the sons of King Thestius and the brother of Althaea.
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D.
Cameirus
Cameirus was one of the principal ancient cities of Rhodes, known for its strategic location and role in the island’s early political and military history.
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E.
Maurus
Maurus is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with early Christian saints and used as a variant of names like Maurice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bourgeois
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comic character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Les Précieuses ridicules ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | comedy ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
generational conflict
ⓘ
satire of preciosity ⓘ social pretension ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
down-to-earth
ⓘ
practical ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Cathos
ⓘ
Magdelon ⓘ |
| createdBy | Molière ⓘ |
| emotionTowardsMagdelonAndCathos | exasperation ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Magdelon ⓘ |
| languageStyle | plain ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | French ⓘ |
| opposes | affected pretensions ⓘ |
| relativeOf |
Cathos
ⓘ
Magdelon ⓘ |
| roleInWork | father ⓘ |
| setting | Parisian bourgeois milieu ⓘ |
| socialClass | bourgeoisie ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
common sense
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traditional bourgeois values ⓘ |
| timeOfCreation | 17th century ⓘ |
| uncleOf | Cathos ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | French ⓘ |
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: Gorgibus Description of subject: Gorgibus is a comic bourgeois father in Molière’s play *Les Précieuses ridicules*, exasperated by his daughter and niece’s affected pretensions.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.