André Breton
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André Breton was a French writer and poet best known as the founder and principal theorist of the Surrealist movement.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| André Breton canonical | 43 |
| Pope of Surrealism | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1270384 — 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: André Breton Context triple: [Odilon Redon, influenced, André Breton]
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A.
André Le Breton
André Le Breton was an 18th-century French printer and bookseller best known as one of the principal publishers of Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie.
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B.
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud was a revolutionary 19th-century French poet whose visionary, experimental verse made him a central figure of Symbolism and a major influence on modern literature.
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C.
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé was a pioneering 19th-century French Symbolist poet whose highly innovative, allusive verse and theoretical writings profoundly shaped modern poetry and literary modernism.
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D.
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor best known for founding the Art Brut movement and creating raw, unconventional works that challenged traditional notions of beauty and culture.
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E.
André Malraux
André Malraux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, art theorist, and statesman closely associated with Charles de Gaulle and known for his influential role in shaping modern French cultural policy.
- 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: André Breton Target entity description: André Breton was a French writer and poet best known as the founder and principal theorist of the Surrealist movement.
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A.
André Le Breton
André Le Breton was an 18th-century French printer and bookseller best known as one of the principal publishers of Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie.
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B.
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud was a revolutionary 19th-century French poet whose visionary, experimental verse made him a central figure of Symbolism and a major influence on modern literature.
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C.
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé was a pioneering 19th-century French Symbolist poet whose highly innovative, allusive verse and theoretical writings profoundly shaped modern poetry and literary modernism.
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D.
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor best known for founding the Art Brut movement and creating raw, unconventional works that challenged traditional notions of beauty and culture.
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E.
André Malraux
André Malraux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, art theorist, and statesman closely associated with Charles de Gaulle and known for his influential role in shaping modern French cultural policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
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: André Breton Description of subject: André Breton was a French writer and poet best known as the founder and principal theorist of the Surrealist movement.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Cimetière des Batignolles, Paris
linked to: André Breton
subject linked to:
Henriette
subject linked to:
Théodora
subject linked to:
Gala