Etienne de Boré
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Etienne de Boré was a prominent 18th-century French Creole planter and the first mayor of New Orleans, known for pioneering large-scale sugar production in Louisiana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Etienne de Boré canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7250599 — 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: Etienne de Boré Context triple: [St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, notableBurial, Etienne de Boré]
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A.
Émile Perreau-Pradier
Émile Perreau-Pradier was a notable French figure commemorated by the literary Prix Émile Perreau-Pradier that bears his name.
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B.
Guy-Victor Duperré
Guy-Victor Duperré was a prominent 19th-century French naval officer who rose to the highest ranks of the French Navy and played key roles in the Napoleonic Wars and French colonial campaigns.
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C.
Léon Boyer
Léon Boyer was a French civil engineer best known for designing major 19th-century railway structures, including the Garabit Viaduct.
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D.
François Marie Daudin
François Marie Daudin was a French zoologist and herpetologist known for his pioneering taxonomic work on reptiles and amphibians in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Hippolyte Durand-Gasselin
Hippolyte Durand-Gasselin was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing the Passage Pommeraye in Nantes, a celebrated covered shopping arcade.
- 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: Etienne de Boré Target entity description: Etienne de Boré was a prominent 18th-century French Creole planter and the first mayor of New Orleans, known for pioneering large-scale sugar production in Louisiana.
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A.
Émile Perreau-Pradier
Émile Perreau-Pradier was a notable French figure commemorated by the literary Prix Émile Perreau-Pradier that bears his name.
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B.
Guy-Victor Duperré
Guy-Victor Duperré was a prominent 19th-century French naval officer who rose to the highest ranks of the French Navy and played key roles in the Napoleonic Wars and French colonial campaigns.
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C.
Léon Boyer
Léon Boyer was a French civil engineer best known for designing major 19th-century railway structures, including the Garabit Viaduct.
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D.
François Marie Daudin
François Marie Daudin was a French zoologist and herpetologist known for his pioneering taxonomic work on reptiles and amphibians in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Hippolyte Durand-Gasselin
Hippolyte Durand-Gasselin was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing the Passage Pommeraye in Nantes, a celebrated covered shopping arcade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Creole
ⓘ
human ⓘ mayor ⓘ planter ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1741-12-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
French Louisiana
ⓘ
linked to:
French colonial Louisiana
Illinois Country ⓘ Kaskaskia ⓘ
linked to:
Kaskaskia, Illinois
|
| burialPlace | New Orleans ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1820-02-01 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Louisiana
ⓘ
linked to:
Louisiana Territory
New Orleans ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Creole ⓘ |
| familyName | de Boré ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | Jean Baptiste d’Estrehan ⓘ |
| givenName |
Etienne
ⓘ
linked to:
Étienne
|
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| name | Etienne de Boré ⓘ |
| notableEvent | produced the first commercially successful granulated sugar from Louisiana sugarcane in the 1790s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first mayor of New Orleans under U.S. administration
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developing successful granulation of sugar from sugarcane in Louisiana ⓘ pioneering large-scale sugar production in Louisiana ⓘ |
| occupation |
planter
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politician ⓘ sugar planter ⓘ |
| owned | sugar plantation near New Orleans ⓘ |
| politicalEntityServed |
Territory of Orleans
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
mayor of New Orleans
ⓘ
member of the New Orleans city council ⓘ |
| precededByInOffice | Spanish colonial authorities in New Orleans ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Louisiana
ⓘ
New Orleans ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
New Orleans
ⓘ
plantation on the Mississippi River near New Orleans ⓘ |
| spouse | Marie Marguerite d’Estrehan ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
18th century
ⓘ
early 19th century ⓘ |
| workedOn |
commercial sugar production in the lower Mississippi Valley
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development of sugarcane cultivation in Louisiana ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Etienne de Boré Description of subject: Etienne de Boré was a prominent 18th-century French Creole planter and the first mayor of New Orleans, known for pioneering large-scale sugar production in Louisiana.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans