Germaine Tillion
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Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist and World War II resistance fighter who documented Nazi atrocities after surviving deportation to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Germaine Tillion canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5071739 — 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: Germaine Tillion Context triple: [French Resistance, notableMember, Germaine Tillion]
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A.
Brigitte Fouré
Brigitte Fouré is a French politician known for serving as the mayor of the city of Amiens.
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B.
Marguerite Duthuit
Marguerite Duthuit was a French woman best known as the daughter of painter Henri Matisse and the wife of art critic Georges Duthuit, placing her at the center of early 20th-century avant-garde artistic circles.
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C.
Léonore Baulac
Léonore Baulac is a French ballet dancer and étoile (principal) of the Paris Opera Ballet, acclaimed for her artistry and leading roles in the classical and contemporary repertoire.
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D.
Lydie Sarazin-Levassor
Lydie Sarazin-Levassor was a French woman from a prominent industrial family who became known primarily as the first wife of avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp.
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E.
Agnès de La Borde
Agnès de La Borde was the wife of French diplomat and Suez Canal developer Ferdinand de Lesseps, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent family.
- 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: Germaine Tillion Target entity description: Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist and World War II resistance fighter who documented Nazi atrocities after surviving deportation to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
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A.
Brigitte Fouré
Brigitte Fouré is a French politician known for serving as the mayor of the city of Amiens.
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B.
Marguerite Duthuit
Marguerite Duthuit was a French woman best known as the daughter of painter Henri Matisse and the wife of art critic Georges Duthuit, placing her at the center of early 20th-century avant-garde artistic circles.
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C.
Léonore Baulac
Léonore Baulac is a French ballet dancer and étoile (principal) of the Paris Opera Ballet, acclaimed for her artistry and leading roles in the classical and contemporary repertoire.
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D.
Lydie Sarazin-Levassor
Lydie Sarazin-Levassor was a French woman from a prominent industrial family who became known primarily as the first wife of avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp.
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E.
Agnès de La Borde
Agnès de La Borde was the wife of French diplomat and Suez Canal developer Ferdinand de Lesseps, known primarily through her marriage into his prominent family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Resistance member
ⓘ
concentration camp survivor ⓘ ethnologist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Croix de Guerre 1939–1945
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linked to:
Croix de Guerre
Grand-croix de la Légion d’honneur ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur
Médaille de la Résistance française ⓘ
linked to:
Médaille de la Résistance
|
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1907-05-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2008-04-19 ⓘ |
| documented |
Nazi atrocities
ⓘ
conditions in Ravensbrück concentration camp ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
École du Louvre
ⓘ
École pratique des hautes études ⓘ |
| familyName | Tillion ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology
ⓘ
ethnology ⓘ history ⓘ |
| givenName | Germaine ⓘ |
| honor | Panthéon interment in Paris ⓘ |
| isA | survivor of Ravensbrück concentration camp ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | French Resistance ⓘ |
| movement | French Resistance ⓘ |
| name | Germaine Tillion ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ethnographic studies of North Africa
ⓘ
testimony on Nazi concentration camps ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Il était une fois l’ethnographie
ⓘ
Le Harem et les cousins ⓘ Les Ennemis complémentaires ⓘ Ravensbrück ⓘ
linked to:
Ravensbrück concentration camp
|
| occupation |
French Resistance fighter
ⓘ
anthropologist ⓘ ethnologist ⓘ historian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
French Resistance during World War II
ⓘ
linked to:
French Resistance
World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Allègre, Haute-Loire, France ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial |
Panthéon, Paris, France
ⓘ
linked to:
Panthéon, Paris
|
| placeOfDeath |
Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint-Mandé, France
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Algerian society
ⓘ
Nazi concentration camps ⓘ
linked to:
Nazi camp system
Ravensbrück concentration camp ⓘ colonialism in North Africa ⓘ |
| wasDeportedTo | Ravensbrück concentration camp ⓘ |
| workedOn |
ethnographic research in Algeria
ⓘ
resistance networks in occupied France ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Germaine Tillion Description of subject: Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist and World War II resistance fighter who documented Nazi atrocities after surviving deportation to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.