Jean Foyer
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Jean Foyer was a French Gaullist politician and jurist who served as Minister of Justice under President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Foyer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6596401 — 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 Foyer Context triple: [Lycée Pothier, hasNotableAlumni, Jean Foyer]
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A.
Raymond Février
Raymond Février was a French architect best known for co-designing Madrid’s iconic Beaux-Arts style Edificio Metrópolis in the early 20th century.
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B.
Jacques Defforey
Jacques Defforey was a French businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational retail corporation Carrefour.
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C.
Jacques Aupick
Jacques Aupick was a 19th-century French general and diplomat best known as the stepfather of poet Charles Baudelaire.
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D.
André Lefèbvre
André Lefèbvre was a pioneering French automotive engineer best known for creating several groundbreaking Citroën models that revolutionized car design and technology in the 20th century.
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E.
Louis Boisot
Louis Boisot was a Dutch nobleman and admiral of the Sea Beggars who played a key role in the Dutch Revolt by helping to relieve the besieged city of Leiden in 1574.
- 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 Foyer Target entity description: Jean Foyer was a French Gaullist politician and jurist who served as Minister of Justice under President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.
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A.
Raymond Février
Raymond Février was a French architect best known for co-designing Madrid’s iconic Beaux-Arts style Edificio Metrópolis in the early 20th century.
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B.
Jacques Defforey
Jacques Defforey was a French businessman best known as one of the founders of the multinational retail corporation Carrefour.
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C.
Jacques Aupick
Jacques Aupick was a 19th-century French general and diplomat best known as the stepfather of poet Charles Baudelaire.
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D.
André Lefèbvre
André Lefèbvre was a pioneering French automotive engineer best known for creating several groundbreaking Citroën models that revolutionized car design and technology in the 20th century.
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E.
Louis Boisot
Louis Boisot was a Dutch nobleman and admiral of the Sea Beggars who played a key role in the Dutch Revolt by helping to relieve the besieged city of Leiden in 1574.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French politician
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human ⓘ jurist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-04-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2008-10-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Faculty of Law of Paris
NERFINISHED
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University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Fifth French Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
constitutional law
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law ⓘ public law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Keeper of the Seals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Rally for the Republic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Union for the New Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ Union of Democrats for the Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Gaullist legal reforms
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service as Minister of Justice in the 1960s ⓘ |
| occupation |
jurist
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lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1967 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1962 ⓘ |
| parliamentaryBody | National Assembly of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Contigné, Maine-et-Loire, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Paris
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surface form:
Paris, France
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| politicalAlignment | Gaullism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Deputy of the National Assembly of France
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Keeper of the Seals of France ⓘ Minister of Justice of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| represented |
Maine-et-Loire
NERFINISHED
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Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Charles de Gaulle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jean Foyer Description of subject: Jean Foyer was a French Gaullist politician and jurist who served as Minister of Justice under President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.