Nicolas Perrault
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Nicolas Perrault is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Perrault.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nicolas Perrault canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10934982 — 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 Perrault Context triple: [Perrault, hasNotableBearer, Nicolas Perrault]
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A.
Claude Perrault
Claude Perrault was a 17th-century French physician, scientist, and architect best known for designing the classical east façade of the Louvre in Paris.
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B.
Henri-Maurice Perrault
Henri-Maurice Perrault was a 19th-century Canadian architect and civil engineer known for his influential role in shaping Montreal’s civic architecture.
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C.
Eustache de Saint Pierre
Eustache de Saint Pierre was a prominent 14th-century citizen of Calais famed for volunteering as one of the burghers to sacrifice himself to King Edward III during the siege of Calais in the Hundred Years’ War.
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D.
Pierre Nicole
Pierre Nicole was a 17th-century French Jansenist philosopher and moralist best known for his contributions to logic and ethics, including his work on the influential Port-Royal school.
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E.
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau was a prominent 16th-century French Renaissance architect and engraver known for his influential designs and detailed architectural pattern books.
- 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 Perrault Target entity description: Nicolas Perrault is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Perrault.
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A.
Claude Perrault
Claude Perrault was a 17th-century French physician, scientist, and architect best known for designing the classical east façade of the Louvre in Paris.
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B.
Henri-Maurice Perrault
Henri-Maurice Perrault was a 19th-century Canadian architect and civil engineer known for his influential role in shaping Montreal’s civic architecture.
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C.
Eustache de Saint Pierre
Eustache de Saint Pierre was a prominent 14th-century citizen of Calais famed for volunteering as one of the burghers to sacrifice himself to King Edward III during the siege of Calais in the Hundred Years’ War.
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D.
Pierre Nicole
Pierre Nicole was a 17th-century French Jansenist philosopher and moralist best known for his contributions to logic and ethics, including his work on the influential Port-Royal school.
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E.
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau was a prominent 16th-century French Renaissance architect and engraver known for his influential designs and detailed architectural pattern books.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (3)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Perrault ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Nicolas ⓘ |
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: Nicolas Perrault Description of subject: Nicolas Perrault is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Perrault.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.