Code Noir
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Code Noir was a notorious 17th-century French colonial legal code that regulated slavery and the treatment of enslaved people in France’s Caribbean and other overseas territories.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Code Noir canonical | 1 |
| Code Noir in Louisiana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21094628 — 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: Code Noir Context triple: [Cap-Français region, hasColonialLegalSystem, Code Noir]
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A.
Tai Noir
Tai Noir is an alternative name for the Black Tai, an ethnic Tai group primarily found in Southeast Asia, especially in Vietnam and Laos.
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B.
Vide Noir
Vide Noir is a 2018 studio album by American indie folk band Lord Huron, noted for its atmospheric, cinematic sound and themes of love, loss, and nocturnal wanderings.
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C.
Black Caesar
Black Caesar is a 1973 blaxploitation crime film about a Harlem gangster’s rise and fall, directed by Larry Cohen and starring Fred Williamson.
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D.
Incognegro
Incognegro is a graphic novel by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece that follows a light-skinned Black journalist who "passes" as white to investigate lynchings in the Jim Crow American South.
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E.
Las Negras
Las Negras is a small coastal village in Spain’s Almería province, known for its volcanic landscapes, clear waters, and tranquil beaches within the Cabo de Gata-Níjar area.
- 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: Code Noir Target entity description: Code Noir was a notorious 17th-century French colonial legal code that regulated slavery and the treatment of enslaved people in France’s Caribbean and other overseas territories.
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A.
Tai Noir
Tai Noir is an alternative name for the Black Tai, an ethnic Tai group primarily found in Southeast Asia, especially in Vietnam and Laos.
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B.
Vide Noir
Vide Noir is a 2018 studio album by American indie folk band Lord Huron, noted for its atmospheric, cinematic sound and themes of love, loss, and nocturnal wanderings.
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C.
Black Caesar
Black Caesar is a 1973 blaxploitation crime film about a Harlem gangster’s rise and fall, directed by Larry Cohen and starring Fred Williamson.
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D.
Incognegro
Incognegro is a graphic novel by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece that follows a light-skinned Black journalist who "passes" as white to investigate lynchings in the Jim Crow American South.
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E.
Las Negras
Las Negras is a small coastal village in Spain’s Almería province, known for its volcanic landscapes, clear waters, and tranquil beaches within the Cabo de Gata-Níjar area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Code Noir