Marc Bloch
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Marc Bloch was a pioneering 20th-century French historian and co-founder of the Annales School, known for transforming the study of history through his focus on long-term social and economic structures.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marc Bloch canonical | 2 |
| Marc Bloch (posthumously) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6339288 — 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: Marc Bloch Context triple: [Université Marc-Bloch, namedAfter, Marc Bloch]
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A.
Lucien Febvre
Lucien Febvre was a pioneering French historian and co-founder of the Annales School, known for transforming the study of history through interdisciplinary and long-term social analysis.
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François Furet
François Furet was a prominent French historian and intellectual best known for his influential reinterpretation of the French Revolution and his critiques of totalitarianism and communist ideology.
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C.
Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan was a 19th-century French philosopher, historian, and philologist best known for his influential works on early Christianity and his controversial book "Life of Jesus."
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D.
Leopold von Ranke
Leopold von Ranke was a pioneering 19th-century German historian renowned for establishing modern source-based historical scholarship and the principle of writing history “as it actually happened.”
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E.
Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Taine was a 19th-century French philosopher, historian, and literary critic known for his deterministic approach to history and literature, emphasizing the roles of race, milieu, and moment in shaping human behavior and culture.
- 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: Marc Bloch Target entity description: Marc Bloch was a pioneering 20th-century French historian and co-founder of the Annales School, known for transforming the study of history through his focus on long-term social and economic structures.
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A.
Lucien Febvre
Lucien Febvre was a pioneering French historian and co-founder of the Annales School, known for transforming the study of history through interdisciplinary and long-term social analysis.
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B.
François Furet
François Furet was a prominent French historian and intellectual best known for his influential reinterpretation of the French Revolution and his critiques of totalitarianism and communist ideology.
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C.
Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan was a 19th-century French philosopher, historian, and philologist best known for his influential works on early Christianity and his controversial book "Life of Jesus."
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D.
Leopold von Ranke
Leopold von Ranke was a pioneering 19th-century German historian renowned for establishing modern source-based historical scholarship and the principle of writing history “as it actually happened.”
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E.
Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Taine was a 19th-century French philosopher, historian, and literary critic known for his deterministic approach to history and literature, emphasizing the roles of race, milieu, and moment in shaping human behavior and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French historian
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Resistance member ⓘ human ⓘ medievalist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Croix de Guerre 1914–1918
NERFINISHED
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Légion d'honneur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | France ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1886-07-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution by firing squad ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Annales School of historiography
NERFINISHED
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journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale ⓘ |
| coFounderWith | Lucien Febvre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCountry | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1944-06-16 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Saint-Didier-de-Formans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Humboldt University of Berlin
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surface form:
University of Berlin
University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Montpellier
NERFINISHED
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University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Strasbourg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Bloch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economic history
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historiography ⓘ medieval history ⓘ social history ⓘ |
| focus |
comparative history
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economic structures in history ⓘ long-term social structures ⓘ |
| fullName | Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Marc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
NERFINISHED
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Fernand Braudel NERFINISHED ⓘ modern social history ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding the Annales School
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pioneering long-term structural history ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in World War II ⓘ |
| memberOf | French Resistance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Annales School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Apologie pour l'histoire ou Métier d'historien
NERFINISHED
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L'Étrange Défaite NERFINISHED ⓘ La Société féodale NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Caractères originaux de l'histoire rurale française NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Rois thaumaturges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
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university professor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
World War I
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World War II ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Marc Bloch Description of subject: Marc Bloch was a pioneering 20th-century French historian and co-founder of the Annales School, known for transforming the study of history through his focus on long-term social and economic structures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marc Bloch (posthumously)