Florent-Claude du Châtelet
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Florent-Claude du Châtelet was a French nobleman and military officer best known as the husband of the mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Florent-Claude du Châtelet canonical | 2 |
| Duc du Châtelet | 1 |
| married to Émilie du Châtelet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1684452 — 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.
Target entity: Florent-Claude du Châtelet Context triple: [Émilie du Châtelet, spouse, Florent-Claude du Châtelet]
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Marquise du Châtelet
The Marquise du Châtelet (Émilie du Châtelet) was an 18th-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher best known for her influential translation and commentary on Newton’s Principia and her intellectual partnership with Voltaire.
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Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois
Marie-Anne de Bourbon, known as Mademoiselle de Blois, was an illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress Louise de La Vallière who became a prominent figure at the French court.
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Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze was an 18th-century French chemist and illustrator who significantly contributed to her husband Antoine Lavoisier’s pioneering work in modern chemistry through translation, experimentation, and scientific drawings.
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D.
Angélique Diderot
Angélique Diderot was the daughter of French Enlightenment philosopher and Encyclopédie co-founder Denis Diderot.
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E.
Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi was an 18th-century Italian physicist and academic who became the first woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field and a pioneering figure for women in higher education.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Florent-Claude du Châtelet Target entity description: Florent-Claude du Châtelet was a French nobleman and military officer best known as the husband of the mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet.
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A.
Marquise du Châtelet
The Marquise du Châtelet (Émilie du Châtelet) was an 18th-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher best known for her influential translation and commentary on Newton’s Principia and her intellectual partnership with Voltaire.
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B.
Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois
Marie-Anne de Bourbon, known as Mademoiselle de Blois, was an illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress Louise de La Vallière who became a prominent figure at the French court.
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C.
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze
Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze was an 18th-century French chemist and illustrator who significantly contributed to her husband Antoine Lavoisier’s pioneering work in modern chemistry through translation, experimentation, and scientific drawings.
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D.
Angélique Diderot
Angélique Diderot was the daughter of French Enlightenment philosopher and Encyclopédie co-founder Denis Diderot.
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E.
Laura Bassi
Laura Bassi was an 18th-century Italian physicist and academic who became the first woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field and a pioneering figure for women in higher education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French nobleman
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| hasSpouseNotableWorkWith | Voltaire ⓘ |
| hasSpouseOccupation |
mathematician
ⓘ
physicist ⓘ |
| knownFor | role in French aristocratic and military circles ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| maritalStatus |
Florent-Claude du Châtelet
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
married to Émilie du Châtelet
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| memberOf | French nobility ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | marquis ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the husband of Émilie du Châtelet ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Marquise du Châtelet
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surface form:
Émilie du Châtelet
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| occupation |
military officer
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nobleman ⓘ |
| residence | France ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| spouse |
Marquise du Châtelet
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surface form:
Émilie du Châtelet
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| spouseFieldOfWork |
mathematics
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physics ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Florent-Claude du Châtelet Description of subject: Florent-Claude du Châtelet was a French nobleman and military officer best known as the husband of the mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.