La Cousine Bette
E63171
La Cousine Bette is a classic 1846 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays jealousy, revenge, and social ambition within Parisian bourgeois society.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Cousine Bette canonical | 19 |
| Cousin Bette | 6 |
| La Cousine Bette (1846 novel) | 1 |
| La Cousine Bette (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T505510 — 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: La Cousine Bette Context triple: [Honoré de Balzac, notableWork, La Cousine Bette]
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A.
Le Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot is a classic 1835 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intertwined lives of Parisian society, focusing on themes of ambition, social climbing, and paternal sacrifice.
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B.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur is a philosophical poetry collection by French poet and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that meditates on the nature and pursuit of human happiness.
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Babette
Babette is a feminine given name, commonly used as a diminutive or variant of the name Barbara.
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D.
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella by Henry James that explores themes of literary obsession, secrecy, and moral ambiguity through a scholar’s attempt to obtain the private papers of a deceased poet from his reclusive former lover.
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E.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
- 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: La Cousine Bette Target entity description: La Cousine Bette is a classic 1846 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays jealousy, revenge, and social ambition within Parisian bourgeois society.
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A.
Le Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot is a classic 1835 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intertwined lives of Parisian society, focusing on themes of ambition, social climbing, and paternal sacrifice.
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B.
Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur is a philosophical poetry collection by French poet and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that meditates on the nature and pursuit of human happiness.
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C.
Babette
Babette is a feminine given name, commonly used as a diminutive or variant of the name Barbara.
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D.
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella by Henry James that explores themes of literary obsession, secrecy, and moral ambiguity through a scholar’s attempt to obtain the private papers of a deceased poet from his reclusive former lover.
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E.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
"Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: La Cousine Bette Description of subject: La Cousine Bette is a classic 1846 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays jealousy, revenge, and social ambition within Parisian bourgeois society.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
La Cousine Bette (novel)
this entity surface form:
Cousin Bette
this entity surface form:
Cousin Bette
this entity surface form:
Cousin Bette
this entity surface form:
La Cousine Bette (1846 novel)
this entity surface form:
Cousin Bette
this entity surface form:
Cousin Bette
this entity surface form:
Cousin Bette