Jacques-Germain Soufflot
E142067
Jacques-Germain Soufflot was an 18th-century French architect best known as a leading figure of neoclassicism and the designer of Paris’s monumental Panthéon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacques-Germain Soufflot canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1244766 — 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: Jacques-Germain Soufflot Context triple: [Panthéon, Paris, architect, Jacques-Germain Soufflot]
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A.
Jacques-François Blondel
Jacques-François Blondel was an influential 18th-century French architect and theoretician known for his architectural treatises and for shaping academic architectural education in France.
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B.
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
Ange-Jacques Gabriel was an 18th-century French architect renowned as Louis XV’s chief architect and a leading figure of French neoclassicism, responsible for several major Parisian landmarks.
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C.
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Jules Hardouin-Mansart was a prominent 17th-century French architect of the Baroque era, best known for his major contributions to the Palace of Versailles and other grand royal projects under Louis XIV.
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D.
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux was an influential 18th-century French architect and urban planner whose visionary, often utopian designs made him a key pioneer of neoclassical architecture.
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E.
François Blondel
François Blondel was a 17th-century French architect, engineer, and theoretician known for directing the royal academy of architecture and helping formalize classical architectural principles in France.
- 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: Jacques-Germain Soufflot Target entity description: Jacques-Germain Soufflot was an 18th-century French architect best known as a leading figure of neoclassicism and the designer of Paris’s monumental Panthéon.
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A.
Jacques-François Blondel
Jacques-François Blondel was an influential 18th-century French architect and theoretician known for his architectural treatises and for shaping academic architectural education in France.
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B.
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
Ange-Jacques Gabriel was an 18th-century French architect renowned as Louis XV’s chief architect and a leading figure of French neoclassicism, responsible for several major Parisian landmarks.
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C.
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Jules Hardouin-Mansart was a prominent 17th-century French architect of the Baroque era, best known for his major contributions to the Palace of Versailles and other grand royal projects under Louis XIV.
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D.
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux was an influential 18th-century French architect and urban planner whose visionary, often utopian designs made him a key pioneer of neoclassical architecture.
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E.
François Blondel
François Blondel was a 17th-century French architect, engineer, and theoretician known for directing the royal academy of architecture and helping formalize classical architectural principles in France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ neoclassical architect ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Burgundy
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France ⓘ Irancy ⓘ Yonne ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Kingdom of France
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Paris ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Académie royale d’architecture
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French Academy in Rome ⓘ |
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| familyName |
Soufflot
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linked to:
Rue Soufflot
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| fieldOfWork |
architectural design
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architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
public architecture
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religious architecture ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacques-Germain ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Andrea Palladio
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classical Roman architecture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
design of the Panthéon in Paris
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leading figure of French Neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| memberOf | Académie royale d’architecture ⓘ |
| movement |
French Neoclassicism
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linked to:
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
designed the church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later converted into the Panthéon
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helped establish Neoclassicism as a leading architectural style in France ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon
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Loge du Change, Lyon ⓘ
linked to:
Lyon 2nd arrondissement
Panthéon, Paris ⓘ Temple du Change, Lyon ⓘ church of Saint-Bruno des Chartreux, Lyon (work on choir and chapels) ⓘ facade of the Hôtel-Dieu, Lyon ⓘ Église Sainte-Geneviève (Panthéon de Paris) ⓘ
linked to:
Panthéon, Paris
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| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| positionHeld | first architect to Louis XV (associated role in royal architectural projects) ⓘ |
| residence |
Lyon
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Paris ⓘ |
| style |
Neoclassical architecture
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classical architecture ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Lyon
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Paris ⓘ Rome ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Jacques-Germain Soufflot Description of subject: Jacques-Germain Soufflot was an 18th-century French architect best known as a leading figure of neoclassicism and the designer of Paris’s monumental Panthéon.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Garde-Meuble de la Couronne (now Hôtel de la Marine, Place de la Concorde)
subject linked to:
Temple du Change, Lyon
subject linked to:
Temple du Change, Lyon
subject linked to:
Jacques-Germain