Olympe de Gouges
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Olympe de Gouges was an 18th-century French playwright and political activist best known for authoring the pioneering feminist text "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen" during the French Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
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| Olympe de Gouges canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5098844 — 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: Olympe de Gouges Context triple: [Errancis Cemetery, notableBurials, Olympe de Gouges]
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Lucile Desmoulins
Lucile Desmoulins was a French Revolutionary-era diarist and political hostess, best known for her intimate writings and tragic execution alongside her husband Camille Desmoulins during the Reign of Terror.
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B.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th-century British writer and philosopher best known as a pioneering advocate for women's rights and author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."
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C.
Louise Michel
Louise Michel was a French anarchist, schoolteacher, and revolutionary heroine of the Paris Commune, renowned for her radical politics, activism, and writings.
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D.
Camille Desmoulins
Camille Desmoulins was a radical French journalist, lawyer, and revolutionary whose impassioned speeches and writings helped ignite and shape the early stages of the French Revolution.
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E.
Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland
Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland was a French actress who became the wife of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and the mother of several of his children.
- 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: Olympe de Gouges Target entity description: Olympe de Gouges was an 18th-century French playwright and political activist best known for authoring the pioneering feminist text "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen" during the French Revolution.
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A.
Lucile Desmoulins
Lucile Desmoulins was a French Revolutionary-era diarist and political hostess, best known for her intimate writings and tragic execution alongside her husband Camille Desmoulins during the Reign of Terror.
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B.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th-century British writer and philosopher best known as a pioneering advocate for women's rights and author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."
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C.
Louise Michel
Louise Michel was a French anarchist, schoolteacher, and revolutionary heroine of the Paris Commune, renowned for her radical politics, activism, and writings.
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D.
Camille Desmoulins
Camille Desmoulins was a radical French journalist, lawyer, and revolutionary whose impassioned speeches and writings helped ignite and shape the early stages of the French Revolution.
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E.
Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland
Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland was a French actress who became the wife of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and the mother of several of his children.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French playwright
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human ⓘ political activist ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
civil rights for illegitimate children
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equality of women and men before the law ⓘ social welfare reforms ⓘ women's right to vote ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Olympe de Gouges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOf | Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Marie Gouze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1748-05-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1793-11-03 ⓘ |
| era |
18th century
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Age of Enlightenment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executedBy | French Revolutionary Tribunal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executionMethod | guillotine ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
abolitionism
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political philosophy ⓘ theatre ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | political philosopher ⓘ |
| influenced | modern feminist thought ⓘ |
| knownFor |
critique of gender inequality in revolutionary France
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early advocacy of women's political rights ⓘ support for the abolition of slavery ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by guillotine ⓘ |
| movement |
French Revolution
NERFINISHED
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feminism ⓘ |
| notableIdea | extension of the Declaration of the Rights of Man to women ⓘ |
| notableWork | Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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pamphleteer ⓘ playwright ⓘ political writer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | French Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of France
NERFINISHED
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Montauban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Girondin sympathizer ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1791 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
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: Olympe de Gouges Description of subject: Olympe de Gouges was an 18th-century French playwright and political activist best known for authoring the pioneering feminist text "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen" during the French Revolution.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Errancis Cemetery