De La Motte
E151797
De La Motte is a French-origin surname historically associated with various notable figures, including early 20th-century American silent film actress Marguerite De La Motte.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| De La Motte canonical | 3 |
| De la Motte | 2 |
| De La Mothe | 1 |
| de La Motte | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1271332 — 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: De La Motte Context triple: [Marguerite De La Motte, familyName, De La Motte]
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A.
Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his decorative ceiling and religious works, and for helping transition French art toward the Rococo style.
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B.
Jacques de Maleville
Jacques de Maleville was a French jurist and politician who played a key role as one of the principal drafters of France’s Civil Code under Napoleon.
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C.
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.
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D.
Maximilien Luce
Maximilien Luce was a French painter known for his vibrant pointillist and later more expressive works that made him a key figure in the Neo-Impressionist movement.
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E.
Donatien
Donatien is the given name of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a prominent French general who played a key role in the American Revolutionary War.
- 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: De La Motte Target entity description: De La Motte is a French-origin surname historically associated with various notable figures, including early 20th-century American silent film actress Marguerite De La Motte.
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A.
Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his decorative ceiling and religious works, and for helping transition French art toward the Rococo style.
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B.
Jacques de Maleville
Jacques de Maleville was a French jurist and politician who played a key role as one of the principal drafters of France’s Civil Code under Napoleon.
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C.
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.
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D.
Maximilien Luce
Maximilien Luce was a French painter known for his vibrant pointillist and later more expressive works that made him a key figure in the Neo-Impressionist movement.
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E.
Donatien
Donatien is the given name of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a prominent French general who played a key role in the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
family name ⓘ person ⓘ silent film actress ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | De La Motte ⓘ |
| givenName | Marguerite ⓘ |
| hasCategory | French-language surnames ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Marguerite De La Motte ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | France ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
De la Motte
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linked to:
De La Motte
Delamotte ⓘ de La Motte ⓘ
linked to:
De La Motte
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| workedIn | silent film ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: De La Motte Description of subject: De La Motte is a French-origin surname historically associated with various notable figures, including early 20th-century American silent film actress Marguerite De La Motte.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: De La Motte
linked to: De La Motte
subject linked to:
De La Motte
linked to: De La Motte
linked to: De La Motte