Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for his monumental modernist work "In Search of Lost Time," which explores memory, time, and consciousness in an innovative narrative style.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marcel Proust canonical | 39 |
| Proust | 2 |
| Marcel Proust (cousin by marriage) | 1 |
| Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time | 1 |
| Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T491820 — 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: Marcel Proust Context triple: [Modernism, notableFigure, Marcel Proust]
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André Malraux
André Malraux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, art theorist, and statesman closely associated with Charles de Gaulle and known for his influential role in shaping modern French cultural policy.
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Émile Zola
Émile Zola was a leading 19th-century French novelist, critic, and public intellectual whose socially engaged, naturalist works and interventions like the "J'accuse…!" letter made him a central figure in modern European literature and politics.
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C.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was a pioneering 20th-century British modernist writer and feminist icon known for novels like "Mrs Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse" and for her innovative stream-of-consciousness narrative style.
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D.
James Joyce
James Joyce was an influential Irish modernist writer best known for his groundbreaking novels such as "Ulysses" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
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E.
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé was a pioneering 19th-century French Symbolist poet whose highly innovative, allusive verse and theoretical writings profoundly shaped modern poetry and literary modernism.
- 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: Marcel Proust Target entity description: Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for his monumental modernist work "In Search of Lost Time," which explores memory, time, and consciousness in an innovative narrative style.
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A.
André Malraux
André Malraux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, art theorist, and statesman closely associated with Charles de Gaulle and known for his influential role in shaping modern French cultural policy.
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B.
Émile Zola
Émile Zola was a leading 19th-century French novelist, critic, and public intellectual whose socially engaged, naturalist works and interventions like the "J'accuse…!" letter made him a central figure in modern European literature and politics.
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C.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was a pioneering 20th-century British modernist writer and feminist icon known for novels like "Mrs Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse" and for her innovative stream-of-consciousness narrative style.
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D.
James Joyce
James Joyce was an influential Irish modernist writer best known for his groundbreaking novels such as "Ulysses" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
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E.
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé was a pioneering 19th-century French Symbolist poet whose highly innovative, allusive verse and theoretical writings profoundly shaped modern poetry and literary modernism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Marcel Proust Description of subject: Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for his monumental modernist work "In Search of Lost Time," which explores memory, time, and consciousness in an innovative narrative style.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
this entity surface form:
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
this entity surface form:
Proust
La Comédie humaine portrays French society after the fall of Napoleon
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Marcel Proust
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subject surface form:
La Comédie humaine
this entity surface form:
Marcel Proust (cousin by marriage)
subject surface form:
In Search of Lost Time
subject surface form:
António Lobo Antunes
subject surface form:
John Ruskin
this entity surface form:
Proust
subject surface form:
Madeleines de Commercy