Maurice Couve de Murville
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Maurice Couve de Murville was a prominent French diplomat and Gaullist politician who served as France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and later as Prime Minister under President Charles de Gaulle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maurice Couve de Murville canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6405046 — 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: Maurice Couve de Murville Context triple: [Union for the New Republic, notableMember, Maurice Couve de Murville]
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A.
Pierre Lazareff
Pierre Lazareff was a prominent French journalist and media executive best known for transforming the newspaper France-Soir into one of the country’s leading mass-circulation dailies.
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B.
André Debierne
André Debierne was a French chemist best known for discovering the element actinium and collaborating closely with Marie and Pierre Curie in early radioactivity research.
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C.
Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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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D.
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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E.
François Marie Daudin
François Marie Daudin was a French zoologist and herpetologist known for his pioneering taxonomic work on reptiles and amphibians in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- 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: Maurice Couve de Murville Target entity description: Maurice Couve de Murville was a prominent French diplomat and Gaullist politician who served as France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and later as Prime Minister under President Charles de Gaulle.
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A.
Pierre Lazareff
Pierre Lazareff was a prominent French journalist and media executive best known for transforming the newspaper France-Soir into one of the country’s leading mass-circulation dailies.
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B.
André Debierne
André Debierne was a French chemist best known for discovering the element actinium and collaborating closely with Marie and Pierre Curie in early radioactivity research.
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C.
Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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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D.
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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E.
François Marie Daudin
François Marie Daudin was a French zoologist and herpetologist known for his pioneering taxonomic work on reptiles and amphibians in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French politician
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of France ⓘ Prime Minister of France ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
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linked to:
Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur
|
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 24 January 1907 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 24 December 1999 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Sciences Po
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University of Paris ⓘ |
| familyName | Couve de Murville ⓘ |
| givenName | Maurice ⓘ |
| ideology | Gaullism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Union for the New Republic
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Union of Democrats for the Republic ⓘ |
| name | Maurice Couve de Murville ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in French foreign policy under Charles de Gaulle
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service as Prime Minister of France during 1968–1969 ⓘ |
| notableWork | participation in the negotiation of the Évian Accords ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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diplomat ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeEnd |
as Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, 31 May 1968
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as Prime Minister of France, 20 June 1969 ⓘ |
| officeStart |
as Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, 1 June 1958
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as Prime Minister of France, 10 July 1968 ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Fifth French Republic government ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Reims, France
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linked to:
Reims
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| placeOfDeath |
Paris, France
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linked to:
Paris
|
| politicalAlignment | Gaullist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
French Ambassador to Italy
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French Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany ⓘ French Ambassador to the United States ⓘ French Permanent Representative to NATO ⓘ Minister of Economy and Finance of France ⓘ Minister of Finance of France ⓘ Minister of Foreign Affairs of France ⓘ Prime Minister of France ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Christian Pineau
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Georges Pompidou ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Charles de Gaulle ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
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Michel Debré ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Maurice Couve de Murville Description of subject: Maurice Couve de Murville was a prominent French diplomat and Gaullist politician who served as France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and later as Prime Minister under President Charles de Gaulle.
Referenced by (4)
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