Madeline's Rescue
E792475
Madeline's Rescue is a classic children's picture book in the Madeline series, written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans, in which a brave dog saves the title character and her classmates in Paris.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madeline's Rescue canonical | 3 |
| Madeline series (as part of Bemelmans’s broader body of work) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9329897 — 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: Madeline's Rescue Context triple: [Ludwig Bemelmans, notableWork, Madeline's Rescue]
-
A.
Madeline's Christmas
Madeline's Christmas is a children's picture book in the Madeline series that follows the brave Parisian schoolgirl as she helps her classmates during a snowy Christmas holiday.
-
B.
Madeline
Madeline is a feminine given name, often considered a variant of Madeleine, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
-
C.
Oh Madeline
Oh Madeline is an early-1980s American sitcom starring Madeline Kahn as a suburban housewife whose attempts to spice up her ordinary life lead to comedic misadventures.
-
D.
The Swiss Maid
"The Swiss Maid" is a 1962 country-pop song by Del Shannon, adapted from the German tune "Oh, Mein Papa" and noted for its yodel-style vocals and Alpine-themed lyrics.
-
E.
Madame Mallory
Madame Mallory is a proud, exacting French restaurateur who runs a Michelin-starred restaurant and becomes both rival and mentor to an Indian family in *The Hundred-Foot Journey*.
- 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: Madeline's Rescue Target entity description: Madeline's Rescue is a classic children's picture book in the Madeline series, written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans, in which a brave dog saves the title character and her classmates in Paris.
-
A.
Madeline's Christmas
Madeline's Christmas is a children's picture book in the Madeline series that follows the brave Parisian schoolgirl as she helps her classmates during a snowy Christmas holiday.
-
B.
Madeline
Madeline is a feminine given name, often considered a variant of Madeleine, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
-
C.
Oh Madeline
Oh Madeline is an early-1980s American sitcom starring Madeline Kahn as a suburban housewife whose attempts to spice up her ordinary life lead to comedic misadventures.
-
D.
The Swiss Maid
"The Swiss Maid" is a 1962 country-pop song by Del Shannon, adapted from the German tune "Oh, Mein Papa" and noted for its yodel-style vocals and Alpine-themed lyrics.
-
E.
Madame Mallory
Madame Mallory is a proud, exacting French restaurateur who runs a Michelin-starred restaurant and becomes both rival and mentor to an Indian family in *The Hundred-Foot Journey*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Madeline book
ⓘ
children's picture book ⓘ |
| author | Ludwig Bemelmans ⓘ |
| awardCategory |
Caldecott Medal for Illustration
ⓘ
linked to:
Caldecott Medal
|
| awarded | Caldecott Medal ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1954 Caldecott Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fictionalUniverse | Madeline series ⓘ |
| followedBy | Madeline and the Bad Hat ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
ⓘ
picture book ⓘ |
| hasAnimalCharacter | dog ⓘ |
| hasConflict | the girls must fight to keep the dog after it is taken away ⓘ |
| hasRescueScene | Madeline is saved from the Seine by a dog ⓘ |
| hasResolution | the dog returns and has puppies that stay with the girls ⓘ |
| hasRhymingText | true ⓘ |
| illustrationStyle | ink and watercolor ⓘ |
| illustrator | Ludwig Bemelmans ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| libraryOfCongressClassification | PZ7.B447 Mad 1953 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Madeline
ⓘ
Miss Clavel ⓘ twelve little girls in two straight lines ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableCharacter | Genevieve ⓘ |
| notableFor | rhyming, rhythmic text and expressive illustrations ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 56 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A stray dog rescues Madeline from drowning in the Seine and is later adopted by the girls at the boarding school. ⓘ |
| precededBy | Madeline ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Viking Press
ⓘ
linked to:
The Viking Press
|
| series | Madeline ⓘ |
| setting | Paris ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young children ⓘ |
| theme |
bravery
ⓘ
compassion toward animals ⓘ friendship ⓘ loyalty ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 20th century Paris ⓘ |
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: Madeline's Rescue Description of subject: Madeline's Rescue is a classic children's picture book in the Madeline series, written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans, in which a brave dog saves the title character and her classmates in Paris.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Madeline's Rescue