Cocteau
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French-language surname
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surname
Cocteau is a French surname most famously associated with Jean Cocteau, the influential 20th-century poet, filmmaker, and artist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cocteau canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8107200 — 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: Cocteau Context triple: [Jean Cocteau, familyName, Cocteau]
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A.
Maybeck
Maybeck is the surname of Bernard Maybeck, an influential American architect known for his innovative and eclectic designs in the early 20th century, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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B.
Delarue
Delarue is a vengeful ex-soldier and gunslinger who serves as the main protagonist in the Western thriller film "The Salvation."
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C.
Roussel
Roussel is a surname of French origin, often used as an alternative spelling of Russell.
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D.
Le Vin
Le Vin is a section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal that explores themes of intoxication, escape, and existential despair through the motif of wine.
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E.
Gauthier
Gauthier is a French given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Walter and historically borne by various notable figures in France and other Francophone regions.
- 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: Cocteau Target entity description: Cocteau is a French surname most famously associated with Jean Cocteau, the influential 20th-century poet, filmmaker, and artist.
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A.
Maybeck
Maybeck is the surname of Bernard Maybeck, an influential American architect known for his innovative and eclectic designs in the early 20th century, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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B.
Delarue
Delarue is a vengeful ex-soldier and gunslinger who serves as the main protagonist in the Western thriller film "The Salvation."
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C.
Roussel
Roussel is a surname of French origin, often used as an alternative spelling of Russell.
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D.
Le Vin
Le Vin is a section of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal that explores themes of intoxication, escape, and existential despair through the motif of wine.
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E.
Gauthier
Gauthier is a French given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Walter and historically borne by various notable figures in France and other Francophone regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Cocteau Description of subject: Cocteau is a French surname most famously associated with Jean Cocteau, the influential 20th-century poet, filmmaker, and artist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.