Jean-Antoine Houdon
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Jean-Antoine Houdon was an 18th-century French neoclassical sculptor renowned for his realistic portrait busts of leading Enlightenment figures such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and George Washington.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean-Antoine Houdon canonical | 36 |
| Houdon, Jean-Antoine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T564418 — 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: Jean-Antoine Houdon Context triple: [Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, hadMember, Jean-Antoine Houdon]
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A.
Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova was an Italian sculptor renowned for his graceful marble works that epitomize the ideals of Neoclassical art.
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B.
Joseph-Marie Vien
Joseph-Marie Vien was an 18th-century French painter and influential early Neoclassicist who helped shape the transition from Rococo to Neoclassical art and trained major artists of the next generation.
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C.
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin was a pioneering French sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for expressive masterpieces such as "The Thinker" and "The Gates of Hell."
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D.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a 19th-century French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty.
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E.
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée was an 18th-century French architect and theorist renowned for his visionary, monumental designs that profoundly influenced the development of Neoclassical architecture.
- 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: Jean-Antoine Houdon Target entity description: Jean-Antoine Houdon was an 18th-century French neoclassical sculptor renowned for his realistic portrait busts of leading Enlightenment figures such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and George Washington.
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A.
Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova was an Italian sculptor renowned for his graceful marble works that epitomize the ideals of Neoclassical art.
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B.
Joseph-Marie Vien
Joseph-Marie Vien was an 18th-century French painter and influential early Neoclassicist who helped shape the transition from Rococo to Neoclassical art and trained major artists of the next generation.
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C.
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin was a pioneering French sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for expressive masterpieces such as "The Thinker" and "The Gates of Hell."
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D.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a 19th-century French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty.
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E.
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée was an 18th-century French architect and theorist renowned for his visionary, monumental designs that profoundly influenced the development of Neoclassical architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Jean-Antoine Houdon Description of subject: Jean-Antoine Houdon was an 18th-century French neoclassical sculptor renowned for his realistic portrait busts of leading Enlightenment figures such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and George Washington.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Houdon, Jean-Antoine