Robert Proust
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Robert Proust was a French physician and surgeon, best known as the younger brother of writer Marcel Proust and for preserving and promoting his brother’s literary legacy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Proust canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12640053 — 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: Robert Proust Context triple: [Adrien Proust, child, Robert Proust]
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A.
Adrien Proust
Adrien Proust was a 19th-century French physician and epidemiologist known for his work on public health and infectious diseases, and as the father of writer Marcel Proust.
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B.
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for his monumental modernist work "In Search of Lost Time," which explores memory, time, and consciousness in an innovative narrative style.
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C.
André Maurois
André Maurois was a prominent 20th-century French author and biographer known for his elegant novels, essays, and literary biographies of figures such as Victor Hugo and Byron.
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D.
Maurice Renard
Maurice Renard was a French writer best known for his early 20th-century science fiction and fantastical novels that explored themes of the uncanny and the supernatural.
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E.
Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard was a French novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate best known for his multi-volume family saga "Les Thibault."
- 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: Robert Proust Target entity description: Robert Proust was a French physician and surgeon, best known as the younger brother of writer Marcel Proust and for preserving and promoting his brother’s literary legacy.
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A.
Adrien Proust
Adrien Proust was a 19th-century French physician and epidemiologist known for his work on public health and infectious diseases, and as the father of writer Marcel Proust.
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B.
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust was a French novelist best known for his monumental modernist work "In Search of Lost Time," which explores memory, time, and consciousness in an innovative narrative style.
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C.
André Maurois
André Maurois was a prominent 20th-century French author and biographer known for his elegant novels, essays, and literary biographies of figures such as Victor Hugo and Byron.
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D.
Maurice Renard
Maurice Renard was a French writer best known for his early 20th-century science fiction and fantastical novels that explored themes of the uncanny and the supernatural.
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E.
Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard was a French novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate best known for his multi-volume family saga "Les Thibault."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
ⓘ
human ⓘ physician ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName |
Proust
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linked to:
Adrien Proust
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| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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surgery ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasBrother | Marcel Proust ⓘ |
| hasNationality | French ⓘ |
| isYoungerSiblingOf | Marcel Proust ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a French physician and surgeon
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work related to his brother Marcel Proust’s writings ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the younger brother of Marcel Proust
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preserving Marcel Proust’s literary legacy ⓘ promoting Marcel Proust’s literary legacy ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
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surgeon ⓘ |
| relative | Marcel Proust ⓘ |
| residence | France ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Marcel Proust ⓘ |
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: Robert Proust Description of subject: Robert Proust was a French physician and surgeon, best known as the younger brother of writer Marcel Proust and for preserving and promoting his brother’s literary legacy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.