Yvonne de Gaulle
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Yvonne de Gaulle was the reserved and devoutly Catholic wife of French leader Charles de Gaulle, known for her discretion, charitable work, and traditional values.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yvonne de Gaulle canonical | 14 |
| First Lady of France | 2 |
| Vendroux (maiden name of Yvonne de Gaulle) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1256914 — 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: Yvonne de Gaulle Context triple: [Charles de Gaulle, spouse, Yvonne de Gaulle]
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A.
Danielle Mitterrand
Danielle Mitterrand was a French Resistance member, human rights activist, and long-time First Lady of France known for her outspoken advocacy for social justice and oppressed peoples worldwide.
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B.
Brigitte Macron
Brigitte Macron is a French former teacher and the First Lady of France, known for her prominent public role alongside President Emmanuel Macron.
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C.
Édith Cresson
Édith Cresson is a French politician who served as France’s first female prime minister in the early 1990s.
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D.
Mazarine Pingeot
Mazarine Pingeot is a French writer, academic, and television commentator who became publicly known in the 1990s as the once-secret daughter of former French president François Mitterrand.
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E.
Simone Veil
Simone Veil was a prominent French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and stateswoman best known for championing the legalization of abortion in France and serving as the first female President of the European Parliament.
- 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: Yvonne de Gaulle Target entity description: Yvonne de Gaulle was the reserved and devoutly Catholic wife of French leader Charles de Gaulle, known for her discretion, charitable work, and traditional values.
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A.
Danielle Mitterrand
Danielle Mitterrand was a French Resistance member, human rights activist, and long-time First Lady of France known for her outspoken advocacy for social justice and oppressed peoples worldwide.
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B.
Brigitte Macron
Brigitte Macron is a French former teacher and the First Lady of France, known for her prominent public role alongside President Emmanuel Macron.
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C.
Édith Cresson
Édith Cresson is a French politician who served as France’s first female prime minister in the early 1990s.
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D.
Mazarine Pingeot
Mazarine Pingeot is a French writer, academic, and television commentator who became publicly known in the 1990s as the once-secret daughter of former French president François Mitterrand.
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E.
Simone Veil
Simone Veil was a prominent French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and stateswoman best known for championing the legalization of abortion in France and serving as the first female President of the European Parliament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
public figure ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
charity
ⓘ
social work ⓘ |
| associatedReligionView | support for Catholic moral teaching ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Charles de Gaulle
ⓘ
French Fifth Republic ⓘ |
| birthName |
Yvonne Charlotte Anne Marie Vendroux
ⓘ
linked to:
Yvonne
|
| characteristic |
attached to traditional values
ⓘ
charitable ⓘ devoutly Catholic ⓘ discreet ⓘ reserved ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| ethicalFocus |
charity and service to the poor
ⓘ
family values ⓘ |
| familyName | Vendroux ⓘ |
| givenName | Yvonne ⓘ |
| knownFor |
engagement in charitable causes
ⓘ
promoting conservative family values ⓘ supporting her husband’s political career in a discreet manner ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| mediaReputation | symbol of discretion in public life ⓘ |
| name | Yvonne de Gaulle ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of Charles de Gaulle
ⓘ
charitable work ⓘ discretion and reserve ⓘ traditional values ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | socially conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Spouse of the President of France ⓘ |
| publicImage |
austere
ⓘ
pious ⓘ unostentatious ⓘ |
| religion |
Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
ⓘ
Élysée Palace ⓘ |
| role | First lady of France ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialRole | model of traditional Catholic wife and mother in mid-20th-century France ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | French social and charitable circles ⓘ |
| spouse | Charles de Gaulle ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
President of France
ⓘ
leader of Free France ⓘ |
| spousePoliticalIdeology | Gaullism ⓘ |
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: Yvonne de Gaulle Description of subject: Yvonne de Gaulle was the reserved and devoutly Catholic wife of French leader Charles de Gaulle, known for her discretion, charitable work, and traditional values.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yvonne de Gaulle
linked to: Yvonne de Gaulle
linked to: Yvonne de Gaulle
subject linked to:
Vendroux
subject linked to:
Anne de Gaulle
subject linked to:
La Boisserie museum