Beaupertuis
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Beaupertuis is a comic character from Eugène Labiche’s farce "Il cappello di paglia di Firenze" ("The Italian Straw Hat"), entangled in the play’s chain of misunderstandings and marital complications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beaupertuis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10677588 — 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: Beaupertuis Context triple: [Il cappello di paglia di Firenze, hasCharacter, Beaupertuis]
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A.
Crassier
Crassier is a small Swiss municipality in the canton of Vaud, located near the French border in the Nyon District.
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B.
Maurepas
Maurepas is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known as a residential suburb southwest of Paris.
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C.
Gressy
Gressy is a small French commune located in the Île-de-France region, known for its residential character and proximity to Paris and Charles de Gaulle Airport.
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D.
Villemoustaussou
Villemoustaussou is a commune in southern France’s Aude department, known as the birthplace of Balthasar Gérard, the assassin of William the Silent.
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E.
Eyraud
Eyraud is a French surname most notably borne by Eugène Eyraud, a 19th-century missionary known for his work on Easter Island.
- 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: Beaupertuis
Target entity description: Beaupertuis is a comic character from Eugène Labiche’s farce "Il cappello di paglia di Firenze" ("The Italian Straw Hat"), entangled in the play’s chain of misunderstandings and marital complications.
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A.
Crassier
Crassier is a small Swiss municipality in the canton of Vaud, located near the French border in the Nyon District.
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B.
Maurepas
Maurepas is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known as a residential suburb southwest of Paris.
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C.
Gressy
Gressy is a small French commune located in the Île-de-France region, known for its residential character and proximity to Paris and Charles de Gaulle Airport.
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D.
Villemoustaussou
Villemoustaussou is a commune in southern France’s Aude department, known as the birthplace of Balthasar Gérard, the assassin of William the Silent.
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E.
Eyraud
Eyraud is a French surname most notably borne by Eugène Eyraud, a 19th-century missionary known for his work on Easter Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic character
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fictional character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze
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The Italian Straw Hat ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Eugène Labiche ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | French vaudeville ⓘ |
| characterType | bourgeois figure ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Eugène Labiche ⓘ |
| genre | farce ⓘ |
| hasNameInFrench | Beaupertuis ⓘ |
| hasNameInItalian | Beaupertuis ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives plot through misunderstandings ⓘ |
| partOf |
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (play)
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linked to:
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze
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| roleInNarrative |
participant in marital complications
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source of comic misunderstandings ⓘ |
| workPublicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Beaupertuis
Description of subject: Beaupertuis is a comic character from Eugène Labiche’s farce "Il cappello di paglia di Firenze" ("The Italian Straw Hat"), entangled in the play’s chain of misunderstandings and marital complications.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.