Monsieur Madeleine
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Monsieur Madeleine is the respectable factory owner and mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer, a new identity assumed by Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s novel *Les Misérables*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Monsieur Madeleine canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6439347 — 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 Madeleine Context triple: [Jean Valjean, hasAlias, Monsieur Madeleine]
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A.
Madame Pichon
Madame Pichon is a minor fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the petty-bourgeois milieu of a Parisian apartment building.
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B.
Monsieur N.
Monsieur N. is a historical drama film centered on the final years and mysterious legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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C.
Madame Pernelle
Madame Pernelle is a domineering, moralizing matriarch in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," known for her blind admiration of the hypocrite Tartuffe and harsh criticism of her own family.
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D.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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E.
La Madeleine
La Madeleine is a suburban commune in northern France that forms part of the Lille metropolitan area.
- 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 Madeleine Target entity description: Monsieur Madeleine is the respectable factory owner and mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer, a new identity assumed by Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s novel *Les Misérables*.
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A.
Madame Pichon
Madame Pichon is a minor fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the petty-bourgeois milieu of a Parisian apartment building.
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B.
Monsieur N.
Monsieur N. is a historical drama film centered on the final years and mysterious legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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C.
Madame Pernelle
Madame Pernelle is a domineering, moralizing matriarch in Molière’s comedy "Tartuffe," known for her blind admiration of the hypocrite Tartuffe and harsh criticism of her own family.
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D.
Madame Vabre
Madame Vabre is a fictional bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," representing the hypocrisies and moral decay of Parisian middle-class society in the 19th century.
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E.
La Madeleine
La Madeleine is a suburban commune in northern France that forms part of the Lille metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Les Misérables ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
identity
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| assumedIdentity | Monsieur Madeleine ⓘ |
| caresFor | Cosette ⓘ |
| createdBy | Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| employerOf | Fantine ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
Les Misérables (1862)
ⓘ
linked to:
Les Misérables
|
| genre | French literature ⓘ |
| hasSecret | past as a convict ⓘ |
| helpsCharacter | Fantine ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Father Madeleine
ⓘ
Monsieur le Maire ⓘ
linked to:
The Mayor
|
| moralConflictWith |
Inspector Javert
ⓘ
linked to:
Javert in Les Misérables
|
| nationalityInFiction | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
charitable works
ⓘ
moral integrity ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ |
| occupation |
factory owner
ⓘ
mayor ⓘ |
| partOf | Les Misérables characters ⓘ |
| positionHeld | mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer ⓘ |
| protects | the poor of Montreuil-sur-Mer ⓘ |
| realIdentityOf | Jean Valjean ⓘ |
| residence | Montreuil-sur-Mer ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Montreuil-sur-Mer factory ⓘ |
| timeInNarrative | after Jean Valjean’s release from prison ⓘ |
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 Madeleine Description of subject: Monsieur Madeleine is the respectable factory owner and mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer, a new identity assumed by Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s novel *Les Misérables*.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.