Jacques Haussmann
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film actor
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Jacques Haussmann, better known as John Houseman, was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer, famed for his work with Orson Welles and his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacques Haussmann canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1572047 — 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: Jacques Haussmann Context triple: [John Houseman, birthName, Jacques Haussmann]
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A.
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Georges-Eugène Haussmann was a 19th-century French prefect best known for orchestrating the massive urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon III, transforming the city with its characteristic boulevards, parks, and modern infrastructure.
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B.
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand was a prominent 19th-century French engineer and urban planner known for helping transform Paris’s parks, boulevards, and public spaces under Baron Haussmann.
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C.
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux was an influential 18th-century French architect and urban planner whose visionary, often utopian designs made him a key pioneer of neoclassical architecture.
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D.
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin was a prominent French neoclassical architect best known for designing Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.
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E.
Théodore Maunoir
Théodore Maunoir was a Swiss physician and humanitarian who was one of the key co-founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 19th century.
- 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: Jacques Haussmann Target entity description: Jacques Haussmann, better known as John Houseman, was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer, famed for his work with Orson Welles and his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
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A.
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Georges-Eugène Haussmann was a 19th-century French prefect best known for orchestrating the massive urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon III, transforming the city with its characteristic boulevards, parks, and modern infrastructure.
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B.
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand was a prominent 19th-century French engineer and urban planner known for helping transform Paris’s parks, boulevards, and public spaces under Baron Haussmann.
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C.
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux was an influential 18th-century French architect and urban planner whose visionary, often utopian designs made him a key pioneer of neoclassical architecture.
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D.
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin was a prominent French neoclassical architect best known for designing Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.
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E.
Théodore Maunoir
Théodore Maunoir was a Swiss physician and humanitarian who was one of the key co-founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Jacques Haussmann Description of subject: Jacques Haussmann, better known as John Houseman, was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer, famed for his work with Orson Welles and his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Houseman