de Galaup
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De Galaup is the family name of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, the French naval officer and explorer known for his late 18th-century Pacific voyages and mysterious disappearance.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5660214 — 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: de Galaup Context triple: [Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, familyName, de Galaup]
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A.
FitzRoy
FitzRoy is a prominent English aristocratic family name historically associated with illegitimate royal descent and borne by several notable dukes and politicians.
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B.
Souvestre
Souvestre is a French surname notably borne by educator Marie Souvestre, known for her progressive influence on women’s education in the 19th century.
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C.
FitzJames
FitzJames is a surname historically associated with several notable figures of British and French nobility, including descendants of King James II of England.
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D.
Arent Roggeveen
Arent Roggeveen was a 17th-century Dutch cartographer and astronomer known for his work on navigation and mapping, particularly of the Atlantic and West African coasts.
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E.
Brueys d’Aigalliers
Brueys d’Aigalliers is the aristocratic French family name most notably borne by Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers, a prominent naval commander during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 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: de Galaup Target entity description: De Galaup is the family name of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, the French naval officer and explorer known for his late 18th-century Pacific voyages and mysterious disappearance.
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A.
FitzRoy
FitzRoy is a prominent English aristocratic family name historically associated with illegitimate royal descent and borne by several notable dukes and politicians.
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B.
Souvestre
Souvestre is a French surname notably borne by educator Marie Souvestre, known for her progressive influence on women’s education in the 19th century.
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C.
FitzJames
FitzJames is a surname historically associated with several notable figures of British and French nobility, including descendants of King James II of England.
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D.
Arent Roggeveen
Arent Roggeveen was a 17th-century Dutch cartographer and astronomer known for his work on navigation and mapping, particularly of the Atlantic and West African coasts.
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E.
Brueys d’Aigalliers
Brueys d’Aigalliers is the aristocratic French family name most notably borne by Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers, a prominent naval commander during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | family name ⓘ |
| category | French-language surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| etymologicalType | toponymic surname ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Galaup
ⓘ
linked to:
de Galaup
de ⓘ |
| hasNobilityAssociation | French nobility ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| nameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| partOfFullName | Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Jean-François de Galaup
ⓘ
linked to:
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
|
| usedInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Europe
ⓘ
France ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: de Galaup Description of subject: De Galaup is the family name of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, the French naval officer and explorer known for his late 18th-century Pacific voyages and mysterious disappearance.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: de Galaup