Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers
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Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research in marine invertebrates and for founding important marine biology laboratories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3936934 — 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: Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers Context triple: [Hydrozoa, describedByTaxonAuthor, Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers]
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A.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist known for his work on comparative anatomy and his early ideas about the unity of organic composition and species transformism.
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B.
Louis Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist known for his pioneering work in classifying and describing numerous bird species in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Bonaparte was a 19th-century French-Italian ornithologist and naturalist, and a prominent member of the Bonaparte family known for his major contributions to bird classification.
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D.
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology, known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact.
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E.
Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille was a prominent French entomologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in insect classification and taxonomy.
- 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: Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers Target entity description: Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research in marine invertebrates and for founding important marine biology laboratories.
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A.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist known for his work on comparative anatomy and his early ideas about the unity of organic composition and species transformism.
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B.
Louis Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist known for his pioneering work in classifying and describing numerous bird species in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Bonaparte was a 19th-century French-Italian ornithologist and naturalist, and a prominent member of the Bonaparte family known for his major contributions to bird classification.
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D.
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology, known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact.
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E.
Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille was a prominent French entomologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in insect classification and taxonomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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anatomist ⓘ human ⓘ university professor ⓘ zoologist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Prix des sciences physiques of the French Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
La Sorbonne
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surface form:
University of Paris
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| employer |
Collège de France
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Sorbonne University ⓘ La Sorbonne ⓘ
surface form:
University of Paris
|
| familyName | Lacaze-Duthiers ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comparative anatomy
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marine biology ⓘ marine invertebrates ⓘ zoology ⓘ |
| founded |
Laboratoire Arago
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Roscoff Biological Station ⓘ |
| genre | scientific literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Gaston ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection | publications in zoological journals ⓘ |
| influenced | development of marine biology in France ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Georges Cuvier
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Henri Milne-Edwards ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding marine biology laboratories
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research on marine invertebrates ⓘ studies of corals ⓘ studies of molluscs ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie des Sciences
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surface form:
Académie des sciences
Académie des Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
French Academy of Sciences
|
| name | Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
founding the marine station at Banyuls-sur-Mer
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founding the marine station at Roscoff ⓘ |
| occupation |
anatomist
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university teacher ⓘ zoologist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chair of zoology at the Sorbonne
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professor of comparative anatomy ⓘ professor of zoology ⓘ |
| publicationType |
articles in academic journals
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monographs on marine invertebrates ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studied |
development of invertebrates
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marine invertebrate morphology ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Banyuls-sur-Mer
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Roscoff ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers Description of subject: Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research in marine invertebrates and for founding important marine biology laboratories.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.