Alcan (original French edition)
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Alcan (original French edition) is the French publishing house that originally issued Henri Bergson’s seminal philosophical work "Time and Free Will."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alcan (original French edition) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13359822 — 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: Alcan (original French edition) Context triple: [Time and Free Will, publisher, Alcan (original French edition)]
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A.
Ouvrage Soetrich
Ouvrage Soetrich is a major Maginot Line fortification in northeastern France that formed part of the defensive system protecting the Thionville sector before and during World War II.
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B.
La Jeunesse
La Jeunesse was an influential early 20th-century Chinese magazine that championed vernacular literature, science, and democratic and anti-traditional ideas, helping to spark the New Culture and May Fourth movements.
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C.
Dangereuse de l’Isle Bouchard
Dangereuse de l’Isle Bouchard was a prominent 12th-century French noblewoman best known as the influential mistress of Duke William IX of Aquitaine and grandmother of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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D.
La Pila
La Pila is a small village on Elba Island in Tuscany, Italy, forming one of the hamlets of the municipality of Campo nell’Elba.
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E.
Les Escoumins
Les Escoumins is a small coastal municipality in Quebec, Canada, known for its whale-watching opportunities and rich marine environment along the St. Lawrence River.
- 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: Alcan (original French edition) Target entity description: Alcan (original French edition) is the French publishing house that originally issued Henri Bergson’s seminal philosophical work "Time and Free Will."
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A.
Ouvrage Soetrich
Ouvrage Soetrich is a major Maginot Line fortification in northeastern France that formed part of the defensive system protecting the Thionville sector before and during World War II.
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B.
La Jeunesse
La Jeunesse was an influential early 20th-century Chinese magazine that championed vernacular literature, science, and democratic and anti-traditional ideas, helping to spark the New Culture and May Fourth movements.
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C.
Dangereuse de l’Isle Bouchard
Dangereuse de l’Isle Bouchard was a prominent 12th-century French noblewoman best known as the influential mistress of Duke William IX of Aquitaine and grandmother of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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D.
La Pila
La Pila is a small village on Elba Island in Tuscany, Italy, forming one of the hamlets of the municipality of Campo nell’Elba.
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E.
Les Escoumins
Les Escoumins is a small coastal municipality in Quebec, Canada, known for its whale-watching opportunities and rich marine environment along the St. Lawrence River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French publisher
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publishing house ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French academic community
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French philosophy ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| fieldOfPublication |
humanities
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philosophy ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
non-fiction
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philosophy books ⓘ scholarly monographs ⓘ |
| hasPublicationFormat | book ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | French ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| notableFor | publishing seminal philosophical texts ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished | Time and Free Will ⓘ |
| operatesInLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalPublisherOf |
Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience
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Time and Free Will ⓘ |
| originalTitlePublished |
Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience
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Temps et libre arbitre ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor | Henri Bergson ⓘ |
| roleIn | dissemination of Bergson’s philosophy ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
academic works
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philosophical works ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Alcan (original French edition) Description of subject: Alcan (original French edition) is the French publishing house that originally issued Henri Bergson’s seminal philosophical work "Time and Free Will."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.