La Bête Humaine
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La Bête Humaine is a 1938 French film noir–style drama directed by Jean Renoir, adapted from Émile Zola’s novel about obsession, violence, and fate surrounding a troubled train engineer.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Bête Humaine canonical | 5 |
| La Bête humaine | 2 |
| La Bête Humaine (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7267969 — 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 Bête Humaine Context triple: [Pierre Renoir, notableWork, La Bête Humaine]
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A.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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Madame Raquin
Madame Raquin is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "Thérèse Raquin," depicted as a devoted but ultimately tragic and powerless maternal figure whose life is destroyed by the crimes and betrayals of those she loves.
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C.
Les Rougon-Macquart
Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
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D.
Camille Raquin
Camille Raquin is a sickly, self-absorbed husband whose murder by his wife Thérèse and her lover drives the plot of Émile Zola’s naturalist novel "Thérèse Raquin."
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E.
Germinal
Germinal is the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late March and early April and associated with the sprouting of plants in spring.
- 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 Bête Humaine Target entity description: La Bête Humaine is a 1938 French film noir–style drama directed by Jean Renoir, adapted from Émile Zola’s novel about obsession, violence, and fate surrounding a troubled train engineer.
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A.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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B.
Madame Raquin
Madame Raquin is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "Thérèse Raquin," depicted as a devoted but ultimately tragic and powerless maternal figure whose life is destroyed by the crimes and betrayals of those she loves.
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C.
Les Rougon-Macquart
Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
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D.
Camille Raquin
Camille Raquin is a sickly, self-absorbed husband whose murder by his wife Thérèse and her lover drives the plot of Émile Zola’s naturalist novel "Thérèse Raquin."
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E.
Germinal
Germinal is the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late March and early April and associated with the sprouting of plants in spring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Bête Humaine Description of subject: La Bête Humaine is a 1938 French film noir–style drama directed by Jean Renoir, adapted from Émile Zola’s novel about obsession, violence, and fate surrounding a troubled train engineer.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Bête Humaine
linked to: La Bête Humaine
linked to: La Bête Humaine