Jacques-Louis Macie
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Jacques-Louis Macie, later known as James Smithson, was the British scientist and philanthropist whose bequest led to the founding of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacques-Louis Macie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1572847 — 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-Louis Macie Context triple: [James Smithson, birthName, Jacques-Louis Macie]
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A.
Ferdinand de Marsin
Ferdinand de Marsin was a French general and marshal of France who served prominently during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
Claude Joseph
Claude Joseph is the given name of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the French army officer and composer best known for writing "La Marseillaise," the French national anthem.
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C.
Jacques-François
Jacques-François is the given name of Jacques-François Menou, a French general who served during the French Revolutionary period and in Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign.
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D.
Jean-Baptiste Descamps
Jean-Baptiste Descamps was an 18th-century French painter, art historian, and writer best known for his biographical dictionary of artists and his role in art education.
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E.
Jean-Joseph Perraud
Jean-Joseph Perraud was a 19th-century French academic sculptor known for his allegorical and religious works and contributions to major Parisian monuments.
- 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-Louis Macie Target entity description: Jacques-Louis Macie, later known as James Smithson, was the British scientist and philanthropist whose bequest led to the founding of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States.
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A.
Ferdinand de Marsin
Ferdinand de Marsin was a French general and marshal of France who served prominently during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
Claude Joseph
Claude Joseph is the given name of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the French army officer and composer best known for writing "La Marseillaise," the French national anthem.
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C.
Jacques-François
Jacques-François is the given name of Jacques-François Menou, a French general who served during the French Revolutionary period and in Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign.
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D.
Jean-Baptiste Descamps
Jean-Baptiste Descamps was an 18th-century French painter, art historian, and writer best known for his biographical dictionary of artists and his role in art education.
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E.
Jean-Joseph Perraud
Jean-Joseph Perraud was a 19th-century French academic sculptor known for his allegorical and religious works and contributions to major Parisian monuments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Jacques-Louis Macie Description of subject: Jacques-Louis Macie, later known as James Smithson, was the British scientist and philanthropist whose bequest led to the founding of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.