Léon-Gontran Damas
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Léon-Gontran Damas was a French Guianese poet, politician, and pioneering anti-colonial thinker who co-founded the Négritude movement alongside Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Léon-Gontran Damas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10263974 — 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: Léon-Gontran Damas Context triple: [Negritude, hasFounder, Léon-Gontran Damas]
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A.
Maxime de Angelis
Maxime de Angelis is an individual known for being a defendant in the high-profile Hostages Trial.
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B.
Gaston Vidal
Gaston Vidal was a French sports official and politician known for delivering the Olympic Oath at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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C.
Henri Racamier
Henri Racamier was a French businessman best known for orchestrating the creation and early expansion of luxury conglomerate LVMH.
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D.
Stanislas de Guaita
Stanislas de Guaita was a French poet, occultist, and leading figure of the Symbolist movement known for his esoteric writings and role in fin-de-siècle occult revival.
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E.
Maurice Barrès
Maurice Barrès was a French nationalist writer and politician known for his influential role in shaping right-wing, anti-Dreyfusard, and integral nationalist thought in late 19th- and early 20th-century France.
- 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: Léon-Gontran Damas Target entity description: Léon-Gontran Damas was a French Guianese poet, politician, and pioneering anti-colonial thinker who co-founded the Négritude movement alongside Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor.
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A.
Maxime de Angelis
Maxime de Angelis is an individual known for being a defendant in the high-profile Hostages Trial.
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B.
Gaston Vidal
Gaston Vidal was a French sports official and politician known for delivering the Olympic Oath at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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C.
Henri Racamier
Henri Racamier was a French businessman best known for orchestrating the creation and early expansion of luxury conglomerate LVMH.
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D.
Stanislas de Guaita
Stanislas de Guaita was a French poet, occultist, and leading figure of the Symbolist movement known for his esoteric writings and role in fin-de-siècle occult revival.
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E.
Maurice Barrès
Maurice Barrès was a French nationalist writer and politician known for his influential role in shaping right-wing, anti-Dreyfusard, and integral nationalist thought in late 19th- and early 20th-century France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Négritude writer
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anti-colonial thinker ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ poet ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cayenne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Négritude NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderWith |
Aimé Césaire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Léopold Sédar Senghor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continentOfOrigin | South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | French Guiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1912-03-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1978-01-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Lycée Victor-Schœlcher
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French Guianan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Damas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
African diaspora studies
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anti-colonialism ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| genre |
poetry
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political essay ⓘ |
| givenName | Léon-Gontran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later Négritude writers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aimé Césaire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Léopold Sédar Senghor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | French National Assembly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Négritude NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Black cultural affirmation
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critique of colonialism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Pigments
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Retour de Guyane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
ⓘ
poet ⓘ politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Caribbean literature
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Francophone literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cayenne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Deputy of the French National Assembly ⓘ |
| representedInLegislature | French Guiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| taughtAt | Howard University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
French Guiana
NERFINISHED
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Paris ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
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Subject: Léon-Gontran Damas Description of subject: Léon-Gontran Damas was a French Guianese poet, politician, and pioneering anti-colonial thinker who co-founded the Négritude movement alongside Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor.
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