Raoul
E549555
Raoul is a masculine given name of French origin, notably borne by the Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raoul canonical | 38 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5807312 — 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: Raoul Context triple: [Raoul Dufy, givenName, Raoul]
-
A.
Raoul
Raoul is a violent, masked intruder and one of the primary antagonists in the thriller film "Panic Room."
-
B.
Raoul d’Harcourt
Raoul d’Harcourt was a French nobleman and ecclesiastic of the influential Harcourt family, known for his role in founding the medieval Collège d’Harcourt in Paris.
-
C.
Guillaume
Guillaume is the French form of the given name William, commonly used in French-speaking countries.
-
D.
Robert of Arbrissel
Robert of Arbrissel was an 11th–12th century French itinerant preacher and reformer best known for founding the double monastery of Fontevraud and promoting radical ideals of poverty and mixed-gender religious life.
-
E.
Raoul de Bragelonne
Raoul de Bragelonne is a fictional nobleman and soldier in Alexandre Dumas’ d’Artagnan Romances, best known as the devoted son of Athos and the title character of the novel "The Vicomte de Bragelonne."
- 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: Raoul Target entity description: Raoul is a masculine given name of French origin, notably borne by the Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy.
-
A.
Raoul
Raoul is a violent, masked intruder and one of the primary antagonists in the thriller film "Panic Room."
-
B.
Raoul d’Harcourt
Raoul d’Harcourt was a French nobleman and ecclesiastic of the influential Harcourt family, known for his role in founding the medieval Collège d’Harcourt in Paris.
-
C.
Guillaume
Guillaume is the French form of the given name William, commonly used in French-speaking countries.
-
D.
Robert of Arbrissel
Robert of Arbrissel was an 11th–12th century French itinerant preacher and reformer best known for founding the double monastery of Fontevraud and promoting radical ideals of poverty and mixed-gender religious life.
-
E.
Raoul de Bragelonne
Raoul de Bragelonne is a fictional nobleman and soldier in Alexandre Dumas’ d’Artagnan Romances, best known as the devoted son of Athos and the title character of the novel "The Vicomte de Bragelonne."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Germanic elements "rad" (counsel) and "wulf" (wolf) ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin | Radulf ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| givenName | Raoul ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | France ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| meaning |
counsel wolf
ⓘ
wise wolf ⓘ |
| movement | Fauvism ⓘ |
| nameCategory | French masculine given name ⓘ |
| nameType | first name ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Raoul Dufy ⓘ |
| relatedName |
Ralph
ⓘ
Raul ⓘ
linked to:
Raúl
Rudolph ⓘ |
| script | Latin ⓘ |
| usageLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
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: Raoul Description of subject: Raoul is a masculine given name of French origin, notably borne by the Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera
subject linked to:
General Raoul Salan
subject linked to:
Raoul Barre