Jean-Louis Roux
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Jean-Louis Roux was a Canadian actor, stage director, and politician who co-founded Montreal’s Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and later served as a senator and briefly as Quebec’s lieutenant governor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean-Louis Roux canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9913431 — 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-Louis Roux Context triple: [The Pyx, hasCastMember, Jean-Louis Roux]
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A.
Patrick Baudry
Patrick Baudry is a French astronaut and test pilot who became one of the first French citizens to fly in space.
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B.
Stéphane Séjourné
Stéphane Séjourné is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament closely associated with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist political movement.
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C.
Frédéric Bricout
Frédéric Bricout is a French politician who serves as the mayor of the northern French city of Cambrai.
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D.
Didier Gailhaguet
Didier Gailhaguet is a French figure skating coach and former president of the French Ice Sports Federation, known for his influential and often controversial role in international figure skating.
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E.
Benoît Delhomme
Benoît Delhomme is a French cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on international films such as The Scent of Green Papaya, The Theory of Everything, and Lawless.
- 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-Louis Roux Target entity description: Jean-Louis Roux was a Canadian actor, stage director, and politician who co-founded Montreal’s Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and later served as a senator and briefly as Quebec’s lieutenant governor.
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A.
Patrick Baudry
Patrick Baudry is a French astronaut and test pilot who became one of the first French citizens to fly in space.
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B.
Stéphane Séjourné
Stéphane Séjourné is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament closely associated with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist political movement.
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C.
Frédéric Bricout
Frédéric Bricout is a French politician who serves as the mayor of the northern French city of Cambrai.
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D.
Didier Gailhaguet
Didier Gailhaguet is a French figure skating coach and former president of the French Ice Sports Federation, known for his influential and often controversial role in international figure skating.
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E.
Benoît Delhomme
Benoît Delhomme is a French cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on international films such as The Scent of Green Papaya, The Theory of Everything, and Lawless.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian actor
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Canadian politician ⓘ human ⓘ stage director ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Jean Chrétien ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Companion of the Order of Canada
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Officer of the National Order of Quebec ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1923-05-18 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Canada
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Montreal ⓘ Quebec ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
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| coFounded | Théâtre du Nouveau Monde ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2013-11-28 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Canada
ⓘ
Montreal ⓘ Quebec ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
|
| educatedAt |
Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal
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Université de Montréal ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French Quebecer ⓘ |
| familyName | Roux ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean-Louis ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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French ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Liberal Party of Canada ⓘ |
| name | Jean-Louis Roux ⓘ |
| notableWork |
La famille Plouffe
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linked to:
Les Plouffe (film)
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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playwright ⓘ politician ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
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co-founder of Théâtre du Nouveau Monde ⓘ member of the Senate of Canada ⓘ senator for Grandville, Quebec ⓘ |
| residence | Montreal ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Jean-Louis Roux Description of subject: Jean-Louis Roux was a Canadian actor, stage director, and politician who co-founded Montreal’s Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and later served as a senator and briefly as Quebec’s lieutenant governor.
Referenced by (2)
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