Jean Yanne
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film actor
film director
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humorist
radio personality
satirist
screenwriter
stage actor
television actor
Jean Yanne was a French actor, filmmaker, humorist, and satirist known for his provocative wit and roles in both popular comedies and auteur cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Yanne canonical | 35 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2981775 — 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 Yanne Context triple: [Cimetière des Batignolles, hasGraveOf, Jean Yanne]
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Conrad Alexandre Gérard
Conrad Alexandre Gérard was a French diplomat who served as the first French minister to the United States during the American Revolutionary era.
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B.
Jean Marais
Jean Marais was a renowned French actor, director, and sculptor best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Jean Cocteau and his roles in classic French cinema.
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C.
Joseph Noiret
Joseph Noiret was a Belgian poet, painter, and art critic best known as a founding figure of the postwar avant-garde COBRA movement.
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D.
James Thierrée
James Thierrée is a Swiss-born actor, director, and contemporary circus performer known for his inventive, physical, and often surreal stage productions that blend mime, dance, and acrobatics.
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E.
Brad Dourif
Brad Dourif is an American character actor known for his intense, often unsettling roles in films and television, including voicing the killer doll Chucky in the Child’s Play franchise and appearing in acclaimed works like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Deadwood.
- 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 Yanne Target entity description: Jean Yanne was a French actor, filmmaker, humorist, and satirist known for his provocative wit and roles in both popular comedies and auteur cinema.
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A.
Conrad Alexandre Gérard
Conrad Alexandre Gérard was a French diplomat who served as the first French minister to the United States during the American Revolutionary era.
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B.
Jean Marais
Jean Marais was a renowned French actor, director, and sculptor best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Jean Cocteau and his roles in classic French cinema.
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C.
Joseph Noiret
Joseph Noiret was a Belgian poet, painter, and art critic best known as a founding figure of the postwar avant-garde COBRA movement.
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D.
James Thierrée
James Thierrée is a Swiss-born actor, director, and contemporary circus performer known for his inventive, physical, and often surreal stage productions that blend mime, dance, and acrobatics.
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E.
Brad Dourif
Brad Dourif is an American character actor known for his intense, often unsettling roles in films and television, including voicing the killer doll Chucky in the Child’s Play franchise and appearing in acclaimed works like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Deadwood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Yanne Description of subject: Jean Yanne was a French actor, filmmaker, humorist, and satirist known for his provocative wit and roles in both popular comedies and auteur cinema.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Cimetière des Batignolles, Paris
subject linked to:
Le Saint prend l’affût (French film)