Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry
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Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry was a French Air Force officer and engineer best known for orchestrating a failed 1962 assassination attempt on President Charles de Gaulle and subsequently becoming the last person executed by firing squad in France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7003241 — 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-Marie Bastien-Thiry Context triple: [Organisation armée secrète, notableMember, Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry]
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A.
Paul-Henri Thiry
Paul-Henri Thiry was an 18th-century French-German philosopher and prominent Enlightenment thinker best known for his atheistic, materialist critiques of religion and advocacy of secular ethics.
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B.
Pierre Lescure
Pierre Lescure is a French media executive and journalist best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the television network Canal+ and a prominent figure in France’s entertainment industry.
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C.
Léon Marchal
Léon Marchal was a French diplomat who served as Secretary General of the Council of Europe during the early years of European postwar integration.
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D.
Louis Jeantet
Louis Jeantet was a Swiss businessman and philanthropist whose foundation established one of Europe’s most prestigious awards in biomedical research.
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E.
Émile Chassinat
Émile Chassinat was a French Egyptologist known for his archaeological work and publications on ancient Egyptian temples and inscriptions.
- 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-Marie Bastien-Thiry Target entity description: Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry was a French Air Force officer and engineer best known for orchestrating a failed 1962 assassination attempt on President Charles de Gaulle and subsequently becoming the last person executed by firing squad in France.
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A.
Paul-Henri Thiry
Paul-Henri Thiry was an 18th-century French-German philosopher and prominent Enlightenment thinker best known for his atheistic, materialist critiques of religion and advocacy of secular ethics.
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B.
Pierre Lescure
Pierre Lescure is a French media executive and journalist best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the television network Canal+ and a prominent figure in France’s entertainment industry.
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C.
Léon Marchal
Léon Marchal was a French diplomat who served as Secretary General of the Council of Europe during the early years of European postwar integration.
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D.
Louis Jeantet
Louis Jeantet was a Swiss businessman and philanthropist whose foundation established one of Europe’s most prestigious awards in biomedical research.
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E.
Émile Chassinat
Émile Chassinat was a French Egyptologist known for his archaeological work and publications on ancient Egyptian temples and inscriptions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French military officer
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French monarchist ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ assassin ⓘ human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution by firing squad ⓘ |
| charge |
attempted assassination of the President of France
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treason ⓘ |
| convicted | yes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-10-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1963-03-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
École Polytechnique
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École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace ⓘ |
| executionMethod | firing squad ⓘ |
| familyName | Bastien-Thiry ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | aeronautical engineering ⓘ |
| fullName | Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean-Marie ⓘ |
| ideology |
French monarchism
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anti-Gaullism ⓘ |
| lastWords | Vive la France ⓘ |
| memorializedIn |
books about the Petit-Clamart attack
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films and documentaries on de Gaulle assassination attempts ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Algerian War context ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant-colonel ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Petit-Clamart assassination attempt
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linked to:
Petit-Clamart attack
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| notableFor |
being the last person executed by firing squad in France
ⓘ
organizing the 1962 assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
Algerian independence
ⓘ
policies of Charles de Gaulle ⓘ |
| organization | Organisation armée secrète ⓘ |
| pardonDecisionBy | Charles de Gaulle ⓘ |
| pardonOutcome | refused ⓘ |
| pardonRequestedBy | various public figures and clergy ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
ⓘ
linked to:
commune of Lunéville
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| placeOfDeath | Fort d'Ivry, Ivry-sur-Seine, France ⓘ |
| plannedAssassinationDate | 1962-08-22 ⓘ |
| plannedAssassinationLocation |
Petit-Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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linked to:
Clamart, France
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| plannedAssassinationTarget | Charles de Gaulle ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sentence | death ⓘ |
| spouse | Geneviève Lamirand ⓘ |
| trialBy | military tribunal ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry Description of subject: Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry was a French Air Force officer and engineer best known for orchestrating a failed 1962 assassination attempt on President Charles de Gaulle and subsequently becoming the last person executed by firing squad in France.
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