Gilles de Rais
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Gilles de Rais was a 15th-century French nobleman, military leader who fought alongside Joan of Arc, and later a notorious convicted child murderer whose crimes inspired the Bluebeard legend.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gilles de Rais canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15178394 — 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: Gilles de Rais Context triple: [Là-bas, involvesHistoricalFigure, Gilles de Rais]
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A.
Urbain Grandier
Urbain Grandier was a 17th-century French Catholic priest whose controversial life and trial for witchcraft during the Loudun possessions made him a notorious historical figure.
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B.
Pierre Cauchon
Pierre Cauchon was a 15th-century French bishop and staunch supporter of the English during the Hundred Years’ War, best known for orchestrating the heresy trial that led to Joan of Arc’s execution.
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C.
François Ravaillac
François Ravaillac was a French Catholic zealot best known for assassinating King Henry IV of France in 1610.
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D.
Pierre Calas
Pierre Calas was a member of the 18th-century French Protestant Calas family, whose persecution and the infamous trial of his father Jean Calas became a landmark case in the fight against religious intolerance.
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E.
Constant d’Aubigné
Constant d’Aubigné was a French nobleman and soldier of the early 17th century, best known as the father of Françoise d’Aubigné, later Marquise de Maintenon, the morganatic wife of King Louis XIV.
- 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: Gilles de Rais Target entity description: Gilles de Rais was a 15th-century French nobleman, military leader who fought alongside Joan of Arc, and later a notorious convicted child murderer whose crimes inspired the Bluebeard legend.
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A.
Urbain Grandier
Urbain Grandier was a 17th-century French Catholic priest whose controversial life and trial for witchcraft during the Loudun possessions made him a notorious historical figure.
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B.
Pierre Cauchon
Pierre Cauchon was a 15th-century French bishop and staunch supporter of the English during the Hundred Years’ War, best known for orchestrating the heresy trial that led to Joan of Arc’s execution.
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C.
François Ravaillac
François Ravaillac was a French Catholic zealot best known for assassinating King Henry IV of France in 1610.
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D.
Pierre Calas
Pierre Calas was a member of the 18th-century French Protestant Calas family, whose persecution and the infamous trial of his father Jean Calas became a landmark case in the fight against religious intolerance.
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E.
Constant d’Aubigné
Constant d’Aubigné was a French nobleman and soldier of the early 17th century, best known as the father of Françoise d’Aubigné, later Marquise de Maintenon, the morganatic wife of King Louis XIV.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.