statue of Pierre-Paul Riquet in Toulouse
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The statue of Pierre-Paul Riquet in Toulouse is a public monument honoring the 17th-century engineer best known for designing and building the Canal du Midi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| statue of Pierre-Paul Riquet in Toulouse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13066611 — 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: statue of Pierre-Paul Riquet in Toulouse Context triple: [Pierre-Paul Riquet, hasMonument, statue of Pierre-Paul Riquet in Toulouse]
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Statue of d’Artagnan in Auch
The Statue of d’Artagnan in Auch is a monument honoring the famed Gascon musketeer, Charles de Batz de Castelmore d’Artagnan, located in his native region in southwestern France.
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B.
Statue of Jules Ferry in Paris
The Statue of Jules Ferry in Paris is a public monument honoring the 19th-century French statesman known for establishing free, secular education and promoting colonial expansion.
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C.
Lion of Belfort statue
The Lion of Belfort statue is a monumental sandstone sculpture by Frédéric Bartholdi symbolizing French resistance during the Siege of Belfort in the Franco-Prussian War.
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D.
statue of Benoît de Boigne
The statue of Benoît de Boigne is a sculpted monument honoring the 18th–19th century French general and philanthropist, prominently featured atop the Fontaine des Éléphants in Chambéry, France.
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E.
Statue des Trois Mousquetaires et d’Artagnan
The Statue des Trois Mousquetaires et d’Artagnan is a public monument in Condom, France, celebrating Alexandre Dumas’s famous swashbuckling characters from “The Three Musketeers.”
- 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: statue of Pierre-Paul Riquet in Toulouse Target entity description: The statue of Pierre-Paul Riquet in Toulouse is a public monument honoring the 17th-century engineer best known for designing and building the Canal du Midi.
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A.
Statue of d’Artagnan in Auch
The Statue of d’Artagnan in Auch is a monument honoring the famed Gascon musketeer, Charles de Batz de Castelmore d’Artagnan, located in his native region in southwestern France.
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B.
Statue of Jules Ferry in Paris
The Statue of Jules Ferry in Paris is a public monument honoring the 19th-century French statesman known for establishing free, secular education and promoting colonial expansion.
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C.
Lion of Belfort statue
The Lion of Belfort statue is a monumental sandstone sculpture by Frédéric Bartholdi symbolizing French resistance during the Siege of Belfort in the Franco-Prussian War.
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D.
statue of Benoît de Boigne
The statue of Benoît de Boigne is a sculpted monument honoring the 18th–19th century French general and philanthropist, prominently featured atop the Fontaine des Éléphants in Chambéry, France.
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E.
Statue des Trois Mousquetaires et d’Artagnan
The Statue des Trois Mousquetaires et d’Artagnan is a public monument in Condom, France, celebrating Alexandre Dumas’s famous swashbuckling characters from “The Three Musketeers.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
outdoor sculpture
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public monument ⓘ statue ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Canal du Midi
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French engineering history ⓘ history of Toulouse ⓘ |
| commemorates |
Pierre-Paul Riquet
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construction of the Canal du Midi ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Pierre-Paul Riquet ⓘ |
| depicts | standing male figure ⓘ |
| depictsPersonDateOfBirthCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| genre | figurative sculpture ⓘ |
| hasAccess | public ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
celebration of canal construction
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local heritage of Toulouse ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
site of public remembrance
ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ urban landmark ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | commemorative monument ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfInscription | French ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
engineering
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infrastructure ⓘ navigation canal ⓘ |
| hasUse | pedestrian gathering place ⓘ |
| honorsAchievement | design of a major navigation canal in southern France ⓘ |
| honorsOccupation | canal engineer ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Toulouse ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Haute-Garonne ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Occitanie ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| material |
metal
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stone ⓘ |
| subjectHasNotability |
builder of the Canal du Midi
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designer of the Canal du Midi ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole | engineer ⓘ |
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: statue of Pierre-Paul Riquet in Toulouse Description of subject: The statue of Pierre-Paul Riquet in Toulouse is a public monument honoring the 17th-century engineer best known for designing and building the Canal du Midi.
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