Henri Meilhac
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Henri Meilhac was a 19th-century French dramatist and librettist best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on operas by composers such as Georges Bizet and Jacques Offenbach.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henri Meilhac canonical | 27 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1682210 — 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: Henri Meilhac Context triple: [Carmen, librettist, Henri Meilhac]
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A.
Henri Contet
Henri Contet was a French lyricist known for writing songs for prominent chanson artists in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Georges Blanchard
Georges Blanchard was a French general best known for his leadership of French forces during the early stages of World War II, particularly in the 1940 Battle of France.
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C.
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.
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D.
Émile Nouguier
Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Eiffel Tower.
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E.
Georges André
Georges André was a French athlete best known for taking the Olympic Oath at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
- 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: Henri Meilhac Target entity description: Henri Meilhac was a 19th-century French dramatist and librettist best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on operas by composers such as Georges Bizet and Jacques Offenbach.
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A.
Henri Contet
Henri Contet was a French lyricist known for writing songs for prominent chanson artists in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Georges Blanchard
Georges Blanchard was a French general best known for his leadership of French forces during the early stages of World War II, particularly in the 1940 Battle of France.
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C.
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.
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D.
Émile Nouguier
Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Eiffel Tower.
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E.
Georges André
Georges André was a French athlete best known for taking the Olympic Oath at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French dramatist
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librettist ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| activeIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Georges Bizet
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Jacques Offenbach ⓘ Jules Massenet ⓘ Ludovic Halévy ⓘ Philippe Gille ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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opéra bouffe ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| movement | 19th-century French theatre ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Barbe-bleue
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Carmen ⓘ Frou-Frou ⓘ La Belle Hélène ⓘ La Boulangère a des écus ⓘ La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein ⓘ La Périchole ⓘ La Vie parisienne ⓘ Le Petit Duc ⓘ Le Roi Candaule ⓘ Le Réveillon ⓘ L’Attaché d’ambassade ⓘ Madame l’archiduc ⓘ
linked to:
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
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| notedFor |
collaborations with Ludovic Halévy
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libretti for Jacques Offenbach ⓘ libretto for Georges Bizet’s Carmen ⓘ |
| occupation |
dramatist
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librettist ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Paris ⓘ |
| wroteLibrettoFor |
Barbe-bleue
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Carmen ⓘ La Belle Hélène ⓘ La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein ⓘ La Périchole ⓘ La Vie parisienne ⓘ Le Petit Duc ⓘ |
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: Henri Meilhac Description of subject: Henri Meilhac was a 19th-century French dramatist and librettist best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on operas by composers such as Georges Bizet and Jacques Offenbach.
Referenced by (27)
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