Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes
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Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes, was an 18th-century French nobleman and diplomat, best known as the elder brother of Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, the influential foreign minister of Louis XVI.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes canonical | 1 |
| marquis de Vergennes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1683854 — 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 Gravier, marquis de Vergennes Context triple: [Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, sibling, Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes]
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A.
French foreign minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, was an influential 18th-century French statesman and diplomat who served as Louis XVI’s foreign minister and played a key role in securing French support for the American Revolution.
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B.
Louis-Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
Louis-Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil was a French aristocrat, diplomat, and royal minister under Louis XVI, known for his staunch support of absolute monarchy during the turbulent years leading up to and during the French Revolution.
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C.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was a prominent French diplomat and statesman who served multiple regimes from the French Revolution through the Bourbon Restoration, shaping European politics with his skilled and pragmatic negotiations.
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D.
Choiseul
Choiseul is a large, sparsely populated island in the western Solomon Islands known for its dense rainforests, diverse wildlife, and role in World War II history.
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E.
Charles-François Lebrun
Charles-François Lebrun was a French statesman and jurist who served as one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s three Consuls and later became Duke of Piacenza under the First French Empire.
- 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 Gravier, marquis de Vergennes Target entity description: Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes, was an 18th-century French nobleman and diplomat, best known as the elder brother of Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, the influential foreign minister of Louis XVI.
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A.
French foreign minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, was an influential 18th-century French statesman and diplomat who served as Louis XVI’s foreign minister and played a key role in securing French support for the American Revolution.
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B.
Louis-Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
Louis-Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil was a French aristocrat, diplomat, and royal minister under Louis XVI, known for his staunch support of absolute monarchy during the turbulent years leading up to and during the French Revolution.
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C.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was a prominent French diplomat and statesman who served multiple regimes from the French Revolution through the Bourbon Restoration, shaping European politics with his skilled and pragmatic negotiations.
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D.
Choiseul
Choiseul is a large, sparsely populated island in the western Solomon Islands known for its dense rainforests, diverse wildlife, and role in World War II history.
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E.
Charles-François Lebrun
Charles-François Lebrun was a French statesman and jurist who served as one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s three Consuls and later became Duke of Piacenza under the First French Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French nobleman
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | French nobility ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes
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surface form:
marquis de Vergennes
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| notableFor | being the elder brother of Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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nobleman ⓘ |
| positionHeld | diplomat of the Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| relative |
French foreign minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
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surface form:
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
French foreign minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
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surface form:
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
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| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
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: Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes Description of subject: Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes, was an 18th-century French nobleman and diplomat, best known as the elder brother of Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, the influential foreign minister of Louis XVI.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
French foreign minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
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sibling
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Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes
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subject surface form:
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes
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nobleTitle
→
Jean Gravier, marquis de Vergennes
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
marquis de Vergennes