Nicolas Cop
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Nicolas Cop was a 16th-century French humanist and rector of the University of Paris known for his early support of Protestant ideas and association with John Calvin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nicolas Cop canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10385458 — 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: Nicolas Cop Context triple: [Collège de Montaigu, educated, Nicolas Cop]
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A.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance polymath renowned as a master painter, inventor, scientist, and engineer whose works and ideas profoundly influenced art and science.
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Raphael
Raphael is an archangel in Judeo-Christian tradition, often associated with healing, guidance, and protection.
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Raphael
Raphael is the hot-headed, sai-wielding Ninja Turtle known for his toughness, impulsive nature, and fierce loyalty to his brothers.
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Raphael
Raphael was a master Italian High Renaissance painter and architect renowned for his harmonious compositions and influential work in both painting and church design.
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Claude Gellée
Claude Gellée, better known as Claude Lorrain, was a 17th-century French painter celebrated for his idealized classical landscape paintings that profoundly influenced European art.
- 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: Nicolas Cop Target entity description: Nicolas Cop was a 16th-century French humanist and rector of the University of Paris known for his early support of Protestant ideas and association with John Calvin.
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A.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance polymath renowned as a master painter, inventor, scientist, and engineer whose works and ideas profoundly influenced art and science.
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B.
Raphael
Raphael is an archangel in Judeo-Christian tradition, often associated with healing, guidance, and protection.
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C.
Raphael
Raphael was a master Italian High Renaissance painter and architect renowned for his harmonious compositions and influential work in both painting and church design.
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D.
Raphael
Raphael is the hot-headed, sai-wielding Ninja Turtle known for his toughness, impulsive nature, and fierce loyalty to his brothers.
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E.
Claude Gellée
Claude Gellée, better known as Claude Lorrain, was a 17th-century French painter celebrated for his idealized classical landscape paintings that profoundly influenced European art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century person
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French person ⓘ humanist ⓘ rector ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
John Calvin
NERFINISHED
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University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | 16th-century French humanist and rector of the University of Paris known for his early support of Protestant ideas and association with John Calvin ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Christian humanism
NERFINISHED
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theology ⓘ |
| ideologicalAlignment | Reformed theology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian humanism
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John Calvin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with John Calvin
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early support of Protestant ideas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
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Latin ⓘ |
| movement | Protestant Reformation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Nicolas Cop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | inaugural rectorial address at the University of Paris on All Saints’ Day 1533 ⓘ |
| occupation |
humanist
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rector of the University of Paris ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | rector of the University of Paris ⓘ |
| religiousOrientation | Protestantism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Nicolas Cop Description of subject: Nicolas Cop was a 16th-century French humanist and rector of the University of Paris known for his early support of Protestant ideas and association with John Calvin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.