Patrick Modiano
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Patrick Modiano is a French novelist renowned for his haunting explorations of memory, identity, and World War II-era France.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Modiano canonical | 12 |
| Jean Patrick Modiano | 1 |
| Modiano | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6053079 — 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: Patrick Modiano Context triple: [Prix Goncourt, notableRecipient, Patrick Modiano]
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A.
Claude Simon
Claude Simon was a French novelist and key figure of the Nouveau Roman movement, known for his experimental narrative style and complex, fragmented prose.
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B.
Romain Gary
Romain Gary was a French novelist, diplomat, and aviator renowned for his literary versatility and for being the only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice under different names.
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C.
Jean Tournier
Jean Tournier was a French cinematographer known for his work on notable films including the political thriller "The Day of the Jackal."
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D.
Jean d’Ormesson
Jean d’Ormesson was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and member of the Académie Française known for his elegant, erudite prose and reflections on history and philosophy.
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E.
André Malraux
André Malraux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, art theorist, and statesman closely associated with Charles de Gaulle and known for his influential role in shaping modern French cultural policy.
- 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: Patrick Modiano Target entity description: Patrick Modiano is a French novelist renowned for his haunting explorations of memory, identity, and World War II-era France.
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A.
Claude Simon
Claude Simon was a French novelist and key figure of the Nouveau Roman movement, known for his experimental narrative style and complex, fragmented prose.
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B.
Romain Gary
Romain Gary was a French novelist, diplomat, and aviator renowned for his literary versatility and for being the only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice under different names.
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C.
Jean Tournier
Jean Tournier was a French cinematographer known for his work on notable films including the political thriller "The Day of the Jackal."
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D.
Jean d’Ormesson
Jean d’Ormesson was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and member of the Académie Française known for his elegant, erudite prose and reflections on history and philosophy.
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E.
André Malraux
André Malraux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, art theorist, and statesman closely associated with Charles de Gaulle and known for his influential role in shaping modern French cultural policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Patrick Modiano Description of subject: Patrick Modiano is a French novelist renowned for his haunting explorations of memory, identity, and World War II-era France.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Patrick Modiano
linked to: Patrick Modiano