Gaston Modot
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Gaston Modot was a French actor known for his work in early 20th-century cinema, particularly in avant-garde and surrealist films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gaston Modot canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9293107 — 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: Gaston Modot Context triple: [L’Âge d’Or, stars, Gaston Modot]
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A.
Charles Laisné
Charles Laisné was a French architect known for his involvement in the design of Paris’s Sacré-Cœur Basilica.
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B.
Adolphe Pontillon
Adolphe Pontillon was the husband of French Impressionist painter Edma Morisot, known primarily through his connection to the artistic Morisot family.
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C.
Georges Périnal
Georges Périnal was a distinguished French cinematographer known for his innovative visual style on influential early 20th-century films in both European and British cinema.
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D.
Édouard Vaillant
Édouard Vaillant was a prominent French socialist politician and revolutionary leader associated with the Paris Commune and the early socialist movement in France.
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E.
Émile Amélineau
Émile Amélineau was a French Egyptologist and Coptologist known for his pioneering but controversial late-19th-century excavations and studies of early Egyptian and Coptic sites.
- 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: Gaston Modot Target entity description: Gaston Modot was a French actor known for his work in early 20th-century cinema, particularly in avant-garde and surrealist films.
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A.
Charles Laisné
Charles Laisné was a French architect known for his involvement in the design of Paris’s Sacré-Cœur Basilica.
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B.
Adolphe Pontillon
Adolphe Pontillon was the husband of French Impressionist painter Edma Morisot, known primarily through his connection to the artistic Morisot family.
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C.
Georges Périnal
Georges Périnal was a distinguished French cinematographer known for his innovative visual style on influential early 20th-century films in both European and British cinema.
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D.
Édouard Vaillant
Édouard Vaillant was a prominent French socialist politician and revolutionary leader associated with the Paris Commune and the early socialist movement in France.
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E.
Émile Amélineau
Émile Amélineau was a French Egyptologist and Coptologist known for his pioneering but controversial late-19th-century excavations and studies of early Egyptian and Coptic sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early sound film era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| familyName | Modot ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde film
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drama film ⓘ surrealist film ⓘ |
| givenName | Gaston ⓘ |
| knownFor |
avant-garde cinema
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early 20th-century French cinema ⓘ surrealist cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| name | Gaston Modot ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
La Grande Illusion
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La Règle du jeu ⓘ Le Crime de Monsieur Lange ⓘ Le Quai des brumes ⓘ Les Enfants du Paradis ⓘ
linked to:
Children of Paradise
Les Misérables ⓘ L’Âge d’Or ⓘ Napoléon ⓘ
linked to:
Napoleon
Un Chien Andalou ⓘ
linked to:
film Un Chien Andalou
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
French avant-garde cinema movement
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linked to:
Impressionist cinema
French surrealist cinema movement ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Abel Gance
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Jean Renoir ⓘ Luis Buñuel ⓘ Marcel Carné ⓘ |
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: Gaston Modot Description of subject: Gaston Modot was a French actor known for his work in early 20th-century cinema, particularly in avant-garde and surrealist films.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.