Marie-Anne Dandonneau du Sablé
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Marie-Anne Dandonneau du Sablé was a French-Canadian woman of the early 18th century best known as the wife of explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, and matriarch of a prominent colonial family in New France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marie-Anne Dandonneau du Sablé canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8727080 — 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: Marie-Anne Dandonneau du Sablé Context triple: [Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, spouse, Marie-Anne Dandonneau du Sablé]
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Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois
Marie-Anne de Bourbon, known as Mademoiselle de Blois, was an illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress Louise de La Vallière who became a prominent figure at the French court.
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B.
Marie-Anne Gérard
Marie-Anne Gérard was an 18th-century French artist known for her work as a painter and miniaturist, and as the wife and collaborator of Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
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C.
Marie Félicité de Saint-Maxent
Marie Félicité de Saint-Maxent was a Creole noblewoman of colonial Louisiana best known as the wife of Spanish governor and American Revolutionary War ally Bernardo de Gálvez.
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D.
Octavie de Laharpe
Octavie de Laharpe was a 19th-century French woman best known as the wife of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the influential urban planner who transformed Paris under Napoleon III.
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E.
Marie Lephaille
Marie Lephaille is best known as the wife of prominent French politician and former President of the European Commission Jacques Delors.
- 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: Marie-Anne Dandonneau du Sablé Target entity description: Marie-Anne Dandonneau du Sablé was a French-Canadian woman of the early 18th century best known as the wife of explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, and matriarch of a prominent colonial family in New France.
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A.
Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois
Marie-Anne de Bourbon, known as Mademoiselle de Blois, was an illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress Louise de La Vallière who became a prominent figure at the French court.
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B.
Marie-Anne Gérard
Marie-Anne Gérard was an 18th-century French artist known for her work as a painter and miniaturist, and as the wife and collaborator of Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
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C.
Marie Félicité de Saint-Maxent
Marie Félicité de Saint-Maxent was a Creole noblewoman of colonial Louisiana best known as the wife of Spanish governor and American Revolutionary War ally Bernardo de Gálvez.
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D.
Octavie de Laharpe
Octavie de Laharpe was a 19th-century French woman best known as the wife of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the influential urban planner who transformed Paris under Napoleon III.
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E.
Marie Lephaille
Marie Lephaille is best known as the wife of prominent French politician and former President of the European Commission Jacques Delors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French-Canadian person
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French Canadian ⓘ |
| familyRole | matriarch of the La Vérendrye family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being matriarch of a prominent colonial family in New France
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being the wife of explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | New France ⓘ |
| spouse | Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye ⓘ |
| spouseNobilityTitle | sieur de La Vérendrye ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | explorer ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 18th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Marie-Anne Dandonneau du Sablé Description of subject: Marie-Anne Dandonneau du Sablé was a French-Canadian woman of the early 18th century best known as the wife of explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, and matriarch of a prominent colonial family in New France.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.