Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was the wife of French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and a member of the prominent Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire family associated with 19th-century French science.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5904798 — 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: Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Context triple: [Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, spouse, Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]
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A.
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist known for his pioneering work in teratology and comparative anatomy, and for continuing and expanding his father Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s research traditions.
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B.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist known for his work on comparative anatomy and his early ideas about the unity of organic composition and species transformism.
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C.
Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers
Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research in marine invertebrates and for founding important marine biology laboratories.
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D.
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology, known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact.
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E.
Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre was an 18th-century French naturalist and zoologist known for his contributions to early taxonomic works, including sections of the Encyclopédie Méthodique.
- 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: Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Target entity description: Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was the wife of French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and a member of the prominent Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire family associated with 19th-century French science.
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A.
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist known for his pioneering work in teratology and comparative anatomy, and for continuing and expanding his father Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s research traditions.
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B.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist known for his work on comparative anatomy and his early ideas about the unity of organic composition and species transformism.
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C.
Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers
Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research in marine invertebrates and for founding important marine biology laboratories.
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D.
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology, known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact.
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E.
Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre was an 18th-century French naturalist and zoologist known for his contributions to early taxonomic works, including sections of the Encyclopédie Méthodique.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | 19th-century French science ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| familyName |
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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linked to:
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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| memberOf | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire family ⓘ |
| name | Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire family ⓘ |
| spouse | Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ⓘ |
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: Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Description of subject: Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was the wife of French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and a member of the prominent Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire family associated with 19th-century French science.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.