Jacques Arago
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Jacques Arago was a 19th-century French writer, artist, and explorer best known for his illustrated travel accounts and participation in global scientific voyages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacques Arago canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8865145 — 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: Jacques Arago Context triple: [François Arago, hasSibling, Jacques Arago]
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A.
Étienne Arago
Étienne Arago was a 19th-century French writer, journalist, and politician who notably served as director of the Paris Opera and briefly as mayor of Paris during the 1848 Revolution.
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B.
François Arago
François Arago was a 19th-century French astronomer, physicist, and politician known for his work on the wave theory of light, electromagnetism, and for promoting science and republican ideals in France.
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C.
Jacques Babinet
Jacques Babinet was a 19th-century French physicist and optician best known for his work on diffraction and for formulating Babinet's principle in wave optics.
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D.
Jérôme Lalande
Jérôme Lalande was an 18th-century French astronomer known for his work in celestial mechanics, star catalogues, and popularizing astronomy.
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Édouard Roche
Édouard Roche was a 19th-century French astronomer and mathematician best known for formulating the Roche limit and making significant contributions to celestial mechanics.
- 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: Jacques Arago Target entity description: Jacques Arago was a 19th-century French writer, artist, and explorer best known for his illustrated travel accounts and participation in global scientific voyages.
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A.
Étienne Arago
Étienne Arago was a 19th-century French writer, journalist, and politician who notably served as director of the Paris Opera and briefly as mayor of Paris during the 1848 Revolution.
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B.
François Arago
François Arago was a 19th-century French astronomer, physicist, and politician known for his work on the wave theory of light, electromagnetism, and for promoting science and republican ideals in France.
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C.
Jacques Babinet
Jacques Babinet was a 19th-century French physicist and optician best known for his work on diffraction and for formulating Babinet's principle in wave optics.
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D.
Jérôme Lalande
Jérôme Lalande was an 18th-century French astronomer known for his work in celestial mechanics, star catalogues, and popularizing astronomy.
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E.
Édouard Roche
Édouard Roche was a 19th-century French astronomer and mathematician best known for formulating the Roche limit and making significant contributions to celestial mechanics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
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explorer ⓘ human ⓘ travel writer ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| employer | French Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Arago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cartography
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drawing ⓘ exploration ⓘ |
| genre |
illustrated travel account
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memoir ⓘ travel literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacques NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
illustrated travel accounts
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participation in global scientific voyages ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| name | Jacques Arago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | descriptions of Pacific islands ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Promenade autour du monde
NERFINISHED
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Souvenirs d’un aveugle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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cartoonist ⓘ explorer ⓘ playwright ⓘ travel diarist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Uranie circumnavigation voyage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Estagel, Pyrénées-Orientales, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | François Arago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | François Arago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traveledTo |
Australia
NERFINISHED
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Hawaii NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippines NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ Timor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visualArtist | yes ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
indigenous cultures
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maritime exploration ⓘ natural history ⓘ |
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: Jacques Arago Description of subject: Jacques Arago was a 19th-century French writer, artist, and explorer best known for his illustrated travel accounts and participation in global scientific voyages.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.