Jacques Mayol
E1028837
Jacques Mayol was a legendary French free diver renowned for his record-breaking deep dives and for inspiring the main character in the film "The Big Blue."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacques Mayol canonical | 6 |
| Jacques Mayol in The Big Blue | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13216953 — 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: Jacques Mayol Context triple: [The Big Blue, character, Jacques Mayol]
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A.
Marcel Lecomte
Marcel Lecomte was a Belgian writer and poet associated with the Surrealist movement in Brussels.
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B.
Claude Lecomte
Claude Lecomte is a cinematographer known for his work on the French film "A Very Curious Girl."
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C.
Jacques Piccard
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the historic first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
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D.
Albert Samain
Albert Samain was a French Symbolist poet known for his musical, melancholic verse and refined, dreamlike imagery at the end of the 19th century.
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E.
Francis Lacoste
Francis Lacoste was a French colonial administrator who served as a leading representative of French authority in Morocco during the protectorate era.
- 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: Jacques Mayol Target entity description: Jacques Mayol was a legendary French free diver renowned for his record-breaking deep dives and for inspiring the main character in the film "The Big Blue."
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A.
Marcel Lecomte
Marcel Lecomte was a Belgian writer and poet associated with the Surrealist movement in Brussels.
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B.
Claude Lecomte
Claude Lecomte is a cinematographer known for his work on the French film "A Very Curious Girl."
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C.
Jacques Piccard
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the historic first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
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D.
Albert Samain
Albert Samain was a French Symbolist poet known for his musical, melancholic verse and refined, dreamlike imagery at the end of the 19th century.
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E.
Francis Lacoste
Francis Lacoste was a French colonial administrator who served as a leading representative of French authority in Morocco during the protectorate era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
athlete
ⓘ
author ⓘ freediver ⓘ human ⓘ |
| advocated | connection between humans and dolphins ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Elba ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide by hanging ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-04-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2001-12-22 ⓘ |
| describedIn | film The Big Blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Mayol ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
marine mammal research
ⓘ
underwater diving ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacques ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | French people ⓘ |
| hasGenre | autobiographical writing ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | modern freediving culture ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
freediving physiology
ⓘ
human–dolphin relationship ⓘ |
| influencedBy | dolphins ⓘ |
| inspiredCharacter |
Jacques Mayol in The Big Blue
ⓘ
linked to:
Jacques Mayol
|
| inspiredWork | The Big Blue ⓘ |
| knownFor |
deep freediving records
ⓘ
inspiring the film The Big Blue ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| movement | environmentalism ⓘ |
| name | Jacques Mayol ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | multiple world records in deep freediving ⓘ |
| notableWork | Homo Delphinus ⓘ |
| occupation |
freediver
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| participantIn | competitive freediving ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Shanghai
ⓘ
Shanghai International Settlement ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Elba
ⓘ
Italy ⓘ |
| practiced | yoga ⓘ |
| recordDate | 1976 ⓘ |
| recordDiscipline | no-limits freediving ⓘ |
| residence |
Elba
ⓘ
Italy ⓘ |
| setWorldRecord | first freediver to reach 100 metres depth ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | freediving ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Jacques Mayol Description of subject: Jacques Mayol was a legendary French free diver renowned for his record-breaking deep dives and for inspiring the main character in the film "The Big Blue."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jacques Mayol
linked to: Jacques Mayol