Michael Vaillancourt Aris
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Michael Vaillancourt Aris was a British historian and scholar of Tibetan and Himalayan studies, best known as the late husband of Burmese political leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Vaillancourt Aris canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8938570 — 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: Michael Vaillancourt Aris Context triple: [Michael Aris, name, Michael Vaillancourt Aris]
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A.
Martin Laliberté
Martin Laliberté is a Canadian Roman Catholic prelate serving as the bishop of the Diocese of Trois-Rivières in Quebec.
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Guy Laliberté
Guy Laliberté is a Canadian entrepreneur, former street performer, and space tourist best known as the co-founder and visionary behind the global entertainment company Cirque du Soleil.
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C.
Guy Chouinard
Guy Chouinard is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre best known for his prolific scoring in the NHL during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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D.
Allen Daviau
Allen Daviau was an acclaimed American cinematographer best known for his visually rich collaborations with director Steven Spielberg on films such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
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E.
Josee Chouinard
Josee Chouinard is a Canadian figure skater and former national champion known for her competitive success in the 1990s and subsequent professional touring career.
- 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: Michael Vaillancourt Aris Target entity description: Michael Vaillancourt Aris was a British historian and scholar of Tibetan and Himalayan studies, best known as the late husband of Burmese political leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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A.
Martin Laliberté
Martin Laliberté is a Canadian Roman Catholic prelate serving as the bishop of the Diocese of Trois-Rivières in Quebec.
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B.
Guy Laliberté
Guy Laliberté is a Canadian entrepreneur, former street performer, and space tourist best known as the co-founder and visionary behind the global entertainment company Cirque du Soleil.
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C.
Guy Chouinard
Guy Chouinard is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre best known for his prolific scoring in the NHL during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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D.
Allen Daviau
Allen Daviau was an acclaimed American cinematographer best known for his visually rich collaborations with director Steven Spielberg on films such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
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E.
Josee Chouinard
Josee Chouinard is a Canadian figure skater and former national champion known for her competitive success in the 1990s and subsequent professional touring career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Himalayan studies scholar
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Tibetan studies scholar ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Cuba ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1946-03-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Havana ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | prostate cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Alexander Aris
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Kim Aris ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1999-03-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Durham University
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University of Oxford ⓘ Worth School ⓘ |
| employer | St Antony's College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Aris ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Himalayan studies
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Tibetan studies ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| knownFor | promoting understanding of Bhutanese history in the West ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1972 ⓘ |
| name | Michael Vaillancourt Aris ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi
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scholarship on Tibetan and Himalayan studies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
“Bhutan: The Early History of a Himalayan Kingdom”
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“Hidden Treasures and Secret Lives: A Study of Pemalingpa (1450–1521) and the Sixth Dalai Lama (1683–1706)” ⓘ “The Raven Crown: The Origins of Buddhist Monarchy in Bhutan” ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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historian ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Oxford ⓘ |
| positionHeld | senior research fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
Bhutanese history
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Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| sibling | Anthony Aris ⓘ |
| spouse | Aung San Suu Kyi ⓘ |
| studied |
Himalayan cultures
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Tibetan language ⓘ |
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: Michael Vaillancourt Aris Description of subject: Michael Vaillancourt Aris was a British historian and scholar of Tibetan and Himalayan studies, best known as the late husband of Burmese political leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.