Simon Millanges
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Simon Millanges was a 16th-century French printer and bookseller in Bordeaux, best known for publishing Michel de Montaigne’s "Essais."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Millanges canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10642443 — 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: Simon Millanges Context triple: [Essais, publisher, Simon Millanges]
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A.
James Martineau
James Martineau was a 19th-century English philosopher and Unitarian minister known for his influential writings on ethics, religion, and the philosophy of conscience.
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B.
Mark St. John
Mark St. John was an American guitarist best known for his brief tenure with the rock band Kiss, during which he played on their 1984 album "Animalize."
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C.
Jonathan Mills
Jonathan Mills is a member of the British acting family headed by Sir John Mills and the brother of actress Hayley Mills.
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D.
John Syme
John Syme was the husband of Sarah Winston Syme Henry, connecting him to the prominent colonial Henry family of Virginia.
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E.
John Lloyd
John Lloyd was a British aircraft designer best known for creating the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber used by the Royal Air Force in the early years of World War II.
- 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: Simon Millanges Target entity description: Simon Millanges was a 16th-century French printer and bookseller in Bordeaux, best known for publishing Michel de Montaigne’s "Essais."
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A.
James Martineau
James Martineau was a 19th-century English philosopher and Unitarian minister known for his influential writings on ethics, religion, and the philosophy of conscience.
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B.
Mark St. John
Mark St. John was an American guitarist best known for his brief tenure with the rock band Kiss, during which he played on their 1984 album "Animalize."
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C.
Jonathan Mills
Jonathan Mills is a member of the British acting family headed by Sir John Mills and the brother of actress Hayley Mills.
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D.
John Syme
John Syme was the husband of Sarah Winston Syme Henry, connecting him to the prominent colonial Henry family of Virginia.
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E.
John Lloyd
John Lloyd was a British aircraft designer best known for creating the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber used by the Royal Air Force in the early years of World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bookseller
ⓘ
printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Essais
NERFINISHED
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Michel de Montaigne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Bordeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessType |
bookshop
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printing house ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bookselling
ⓘ
printing ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| genrePublished | essays ⓘ |
| languageOfPublishedWorks | French ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | publishing Michel de Montaigne’s "Essais" ⓘ |
| occupation |
bookseller
ⓘ
printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Bordeaux
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor | Michel de Montaigne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publishedWork | Essais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Aquitaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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
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: Simon Millanges Description of subject: Simon Millanges was a 16th-century French printer and bookseller in Bordeaux, best known for publishing Michel de Montaigne’s "Essais."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.