Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval
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Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval was a 16th-century French nobleman and explorer appointed by King Francis I to lead one of France’s earliest colonization attempts in North America.
All labels observed (2)
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| Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval canonical | 1 |
| Jean-François de la Roque de Roberval | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13943210 — 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: Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval Context triple: [Battle of the Restigouche, commanderForFrance, Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval]
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A.
Gilles Personne de Roberval
Gilles Personne de Roberval was a 17th-century French mathematician known for his work on geometry, the method of indivisibles, and early developments in integral calculus.
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B.
François de la Chaise
François de la Chaise was a 17th-century French Jesuit priest and confessor to King Louis XIV, whose name was later given to Paris’s famous Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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C.
Clément de la Bastie
Clément de la Bastie is the central fictional protagonist of the French novel "La Fausse Maîtresse," around whom the story’s romantic and social intrigues revolve.
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D.
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons was a French nobleman, merchant, and colonizer who led early 17th-century French efforts to establish permanent settlements in North America, including sponsoring expeditions that laid the foundations of New France.
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E.
Henri de La Rochejaquelein
Henri de La Rochejaquelein was a young French royalist general famed for leading Catholic and royalist forces during the counter-revolutionary wars of the French Revolution.
- 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: Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval Target entity description: Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval was a 16th-century French nobleman and explorer appointed by King Francis I to lead one of France’s earliest colonization attempts in North America.
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A.
Gilles Personne de Roberval
Gilles Personne de Roberval was a 17th-century French mathematician known for his work on geometry, the method of indivisibles, and early developments in integral calculus.
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B.
François de la Chaise
François de la Chaise was a 17th-century French Jesuit priest and confessor to King Louis XIV, whose name was later given to Paris’s famous Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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C.
Clément de la Bastie
Clément de la Bastie is the central fictional protagonist of the French novel "La Fausse Maîtresse," around whom the story’s romantic and social intrigues revolve.
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D.
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons was a French nobleman, merchant, and colonizer who led early 17th-century French efforts to establish permanent settlements in North America, including sponsoring expeditions that laid the foundations of New France.
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E.
Henri de La Rochejaquelein
Henri de La Rochejaquelein was a young French royalist general famed for leading Catholic and royalist forces during the counter-revolutionary wars of the French Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval