Le Colonel Chabert
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Le Colonel Chabert is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that portrays a presumed-dead Napoleonic officer’s struggle to reclaim his identity, honor, and inheritance in post-Imperial French society.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Le Colonel Chabert canonical | 12 |
| Colonel Chabert | 10 |
| Colonel Chabert is a presumed-dead Napoleonic officer | 1 |
| Le Colonel Chabert (1844) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505509 — 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: Le Colonel Chabert Context triple: [Honoré de Balzac, notableWork, Le Colonel Chabert]
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A.
Les Cent-Jours
Les Cent-Jours refers to the brief 1815 period when Napoleon Bonaparte returned from exile, regained power in France, and ultimately fell after the Battle of Waterloo.
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B.
Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental sandstone sculpture in Belfort, France, symbolizing French resistance during the Franco-Prussian War and created by Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
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C.
La Henriade
La Henriade is an epic poem by Voltaire that celebrates the reign of Henry IV of France while promoting Enlightenment ideals of religious tolerance and reason.
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D.
Le Quatorze Juillet
Le Quatorze Juillet is the French national holiday celebrated on July 14, commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and symbolizing the birth of the French Republic.
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E.
Drôle de guerre
Drôle de guerre is the term for the early phase of World War II on the Western Front marked by little active fighting despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
- 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: Le Colonel Chabert Target entity description: Le Colonel Chabert is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that portrays a presumed-dead Napoleonic officer’s struggle to reclaim his identity, honor, and inheritance in post-Imperial French society.
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A.
Les Cent-Jours
Les Cent-Jours refers to the brief 1815 period when Napoleon Bonaparte returned from exile, regained power in France, and ultimately fell after the Battle of Waterloo.
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B.
Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental sandstone sculpture in Belfort, France, symbolizing French resistance during the Franco-Prussian War and created by Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
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C.
La Henriade
La Henriade is an epic poem by Voltaire that celebrates the reign of Henry IV of France while promoting Enlightenment ideals of religious tolerance and reason.
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D.
Le Quatorze Juillet
Le Quatorze Juillet is the French national holiday celebrated on July 14, commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille and symbolizing the birth of the French Republic.
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E.
Drôle de guerre
Drôle de guerre is the term for the early phase of World War II on the Western Front marked by little active fighting despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French literature
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literary work ⓘ novella ⓘ |
| author | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Scènes de la vie parisienne ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Le Colonel Chabert
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surface form:
Colonel Chabert is a presumed-dead Napoleonic officer
Comtesse Ferraud is Chabert's former wife ⓘ Maître Derville is a lawyer representing Chabert ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts |
Napoleonic officer
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post-Imperial French society ⓘ |
| explores |
conflict between individual and society
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corruption of the legal system ⓘ effects of war on personal identity ⓘ |
| genre |
novella
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realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations
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theatrical adaptations ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Le Colonel Chabert
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Colonel Chabert
Comtesse Ferraud ⓘ Maître Derville ⓘ Rose Chapotel ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryCycle | Scènes de la vie parisienne ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | realism ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | classic of French literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Le Colonel Chabert
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Colonel Chabert
Comtesse Ferraud ⓘ Maître Derville ⓘ Rose Chapotel ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A colonel believed dead at the Battle of Eylau returns to reclaim his name, wife, and fortune. ⓘ |
| publicationForm | serial publication ⓘ |
| series | La Comédie humaine ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Restoration France
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post-Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| theme |
bureaucracy
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class and social status ⓘ honor ⓘ identity ⓘ legal struggle ⓘ memory ⓘ social injustice ⓘ |
| workType | prose fiction ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Honoré de Balzac ⓘ |
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: Le Colonel Chabert Description of subject: Le Colonel Chabert is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that portrays a presumed-dead Napoleonic officer’s struggle to reclaim his identity, honor, and inheritance in post-Imperial French society.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Colonel Chabert
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Colonel Chabert is a presumed-dead Napoleonic officer
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Colonel Chabert
La Comédie humaine portrays French society after the fall of Napoleon
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Le Colonel Chabert
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La Comédie humaine
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Colonel Chabert
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Maître Derville
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Maître Derville
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Colonel Chabert
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Maître Derville
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Colonel Chabert
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Maître Derville
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Comtesse Ferraud
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Comtesse Ferraud
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Colonel Chabert
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Comtesse Ferraud
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Colonel Chabert
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Comtesse Ferraud
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Colonel Chabert
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Comtesse Ferraud
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Le Colonel Chabert (1844)
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Colonel Chabert
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Colonel Chabert