Charles-Victor Hugo
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Charles-Victor Hugo was a French journalist, photographer, and political activist, best known as one of Victor Hugo’s sons and a defender of press freedom in 19th-century France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles-Victor Hugo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9005457 — 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: Charles-Victor Hugo Context triple: [Charles Hugo, sibling, Charles-Victor Hugo]
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A.
François-Victor Hugo
François-Victor Hugo was a French writer and renowned translator, best known for his influential French translations of Shakespeare’s works and as the son of author Victor Hugo.
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B.
Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo
Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo was a French general in Napoleon’s army and the father of the famed writer Victor Hugo.
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C.
Léopoldine Hugo
Léopoldine Hugo was the beloved eldest daughter of French writer Victor Hugo, whose tragic early death deeply influenced his life and work.
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D.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo was a 19th-century French novelist, poet, and dramatist, best known for works such as "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame."
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E.
Eugène Hugo
Eugène Hugo was a French writer and the younger brother of famed novelist Victor Hugo, known largely through his association with the prominent Hugo family.
- 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: Charles-Victor Hugo Target entity description: Charles-Victor Hugo was a French journalist, photographer, and political activist, best known as one of Victor Hugo’s sons and a defender of press freedom in 19th-century France.
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A.
François-Victor Hugo
François-Victor Hugo was a French writer and renowned translator, best known for his influential French translations of Shakespeare’s works and as the son of author Victor Hugo.
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B.
Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo
Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo was a French general in Napoleon’s army and the father of the famed writer Victor Hugo.
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C.
Léopoldine Hugo
Léopoldine Hugo was the beloved eldest daughter of French writer Victor Hugo, whose tragic early death deeply influenced his life and work.
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D.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo was a 19th-century French novelist, poet, and dramatist, best known for works such as "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame."
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E.
Maxime de Angelis
Maxime de Angelis is an individual known for being a defendant in the high-profile Hostages Trial.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
ⓘ
human ⓘ journalist ⓘ photographer ⓘ political activist ⓘ |
| areaOfActivism |
opposition to censorship
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press freedom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| employer | L’Événement ⓘ |
| familyName | Hugo ⓘ |
| father | Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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photography ⓘ political activism ⓘ |
| genre | political journalism ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles-Victor ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| mother | Adèle Foucher ⓘ |
| movement | French republicanism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableEvent | trial for press offenses under the Second French Empire ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a son of Victor Hugo
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defending freedom of the press in 19th-century France ⓘ early adoption of photography in France ⓘ |
| notableWork | L’Événement ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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photographer ⓘ political activist ⓘ |
| participantIn | campaigns against press censorship in France ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bordeaux ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | republican ⓘ |
| relative | Georges Hugo ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Adèle Hugo
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Charles Hugo ⓘ François-Victor Hugo ⓘ Léopoldine Hugo ⓘ |
| spouse | Alice Lehaene ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
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: Charles-Victor Hugo Description of subject: Charles-Victor Hugo was a French journalist, photographer, and political activist, best known as one of Victor Hugo’s sons and a defender of press freedom in 19th-century France.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.