Marie van Goethem
E300500
Marie van Goethem was a young Parisian ballet student at the Paris Opéra who is best known as the model for Edgar Degas’s famous sculpture "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marie van Goethem canonical | 3 |
| Antoinette van Goethem | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2749036 — 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: Marie van Goethem Context triple: [Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, subjectName, Marie van Goethem]
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A.
Maria van Reigersberch
Maria van Reigersberch was the resourceful wife of jurist Hugo Grotius, best known for orchestrating his famous escape from Loevestein Castle in a book chest.
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B.
Marie-Thérèse Walter
Marie-Thérèse Walter was a French woman best known as Pablo Picasso’s muse and lover, who inspired many of his most celebrated portraits and sculptures in the 1930s.
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C.
Countess Elisabeth d’Udekem d’Acoz
Countess Elisabeth d’Udekem d’Acoz is a member of the Belgian nobility closely connected to the royal family, notably through her role as a godmother to Prince Emmanuel of Belgium.
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D.
Mathilde of Belgium
Mathilde of Belgium is the Queen of the Belgians, known for her role in public service, social advocacy, and representing the Belgian monarchy at home and abroad.
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E.
Eugénie Savoye
Eugénie Savoye was a French client and member of the Savoye family who commissioned Le Corbusier to design the iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
- 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: Marie van Goethem Target entity description: Marie van Goethem was a young Parisian ballet student at the Paris Opéra who is best known as the model for Edgar Degas’s famous sculpture "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years."
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A.
Maria van Reigersberch
Maria van Reigersberch was the resourceful wife of jurist Hugo Grotius, best known for orchestrating his famous escape from Loevestein Castle in a book chest.
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B.
Marie-Thérèse Walter
Marie-Thérèse Walter was a French woman best known as Pablo Picasso’s muse and lover, who inspired many of his most celebrated portraits and sculptures in the 1930s.
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C.
Countess Elisabeth d’Udekem d’Acoz
Countess Elisabeth d’Udekem d’Acoz is a member of the Belgian nobility closely connected to the royal family, notably through her role as a godmother to Prince Emmanuel of Belgium.
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D.
Mathilde of Belgium
Mathilde of Belgium is the Queen of the Belgians, known for her role in public service, social advocacy, and representing the Belgian monarchy at home and abroad.
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E.
Eugénie Savoye
Eugénie Savoye was a French client and member of the Savoye family who commissioned Le Corbusier to design the iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet student
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 19th-century Paris ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Edgar Degas
ⓘ
Paris Opera ⓘ
surface form:
Paris Opéra
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| depictedIn |
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
ⓘ
surface form:
"Little Dancer of Fourteen Years"
|
| educatedAt |
Paris Opera Ballet School
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris Opéra Ballet School
|
| employer |
Paris Opera
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris Opéra
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| ethnicOrigin | Belgian descent ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | ballet ⓘ |
| influenced | reception of Degas's sculpture ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the model for "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years" ⓘ |
| lifeStatus | historical figure with uncertain later life details ⓘ |
| modeledFor | Edgar Degas ⓘ |
| movement |
Paris Opera Ballet
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris Opéra corps de ballet
|
| name | Marie van Goethem self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWorkSubjectOf |
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
ⓘ
surface form:
"Little Dancer of Fourteen Years"
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| occupation |
artist's model
ⓘ
ballet dancer ⓘ |
| partOf | Paris Opéra ballet school students ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | young ballet student ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| sibling |
Marie van Goethem
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Antoinette van Goethem
Charlotte van Goethem ⓘ |
| socialClass | working class ⓘ |
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: Marie van Goethem Description of subject: Marie van Goethem was a young Parisian ballet student at the Paris Opéra who is best known as the model for Edgar Degas’s famous sculpture "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Antoinette van Goethem