Micheline Calmy-Rey
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Micheline Calmy-Rey is a Swiss politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council who served as Switzerland’s foreign minister and twice as President of the Swiss Confederation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Micheline Calmy-Rey canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T130477 — 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: Micheline Calmy-Rey Context triple: [University of Zurich, hasNotableAlumnus, Micheline Calmy-Rey]
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A.
Corine Mauch
Corine Mauch is a Swiss politician who has served as the mayor of Zurich and is known as the city’s first openly lesbian leader.
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B.
Alfred Sauvy
Alfred Sauvy was a French demographer, sociologist, and economist best known for introducing the term "Third World" to describe countries not aligned with either the Western or Eastern blocs during the Cold War.
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C.
Luceal Guterres
Luceal Guterres is the wife of António Guterres, the Portuguese politician and diplomat serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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D.
Mariette Kövesi
Mariette Kövesi was the wife of renowned mathematician and polymath John von Neumann.
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E.
Marie-Pierre Kœnig
Marie-Pierre Kœnig was a prominent French general and Resistance leader during World War II, renowned for his role in the Free French Forces and the Battle of Bir Hakeim.
- 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: Micheline Calmy-Rey Target entity description: Micheline Calmy-Rey is a Swiss politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council who served as Switzerland’s foreign minister and twice as President of the Swiss Confederation.
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A.
Corine Mauch
Corine Mauch is a Swiss politician who has served as the mayor of Zurich and is known as the city’s first openly lesbian leader.
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B.
Alfred Sauvy
Alfred Sauvy was a French demographer, sociologist, and economist best known for introducing the term "Third World" to describe countries not aligned with either the Western or Eastern blocs during the Cold War.
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C.
Luceal Guterres
Luceal Guterres is the wife of António Guterres, the Portuguese politician and diplomat serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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D.
Mariette Kövesi
Mariette Kövesi was the wife of renowned mathematician and polymath John von Neumann.
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E.
Marie-Pierre Kœnig
Marie-Pierre Kœnig was a prominent French general and Resistance leader during World War II, renowned for his role in the Free French Forces and the Battle of Bir Hakeim.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss politician
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-07-08 ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
Swiss Federal Council official biography
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Swiss government publications ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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University of Geneva ⓘ |
| employer |
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Swiss Federal Council ⓘ |
| endTime | 2011-12-31 ⓘ |
| endTimeAsFederalCouncillor | 2011 ⓘ |
| endTimeAsForeignMinister | 2011 ⓘ |
| familyName | Calmy-Rey ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
international relations
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political science ⓘ |
| givenName | Micheline ⓘ |
| hasChild | two children ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
politician
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university lecturer ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
English
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French ⓘ German ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Social Democratic Party of Switzerland ⓘ |
| name | Micheline Calmy-Rey ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Swiss foreign policy activism
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service as President of the Swiss Confederation ⓘ service as head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs ⓘ |
| numberOfTermsAsPresidentOfTheConfederation | 2 ⓘ |
| officeContested | Swiss Federal Council ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sion ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
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Member of the Swiss Federal Council ⓘ President of the Swiss Confederation ⓘ Vice President of the Swiss Confederation ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Geneva ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | André Calmy ⓘ |
| startTime | 2003-01-01 ⓘ |
| startTimeAsFederalCouncillor | 2003 ⓘ |
| startTimeAsForeignMinister | 2003 ⓘ |
| startTimeAsPresidentOfTheConfederation |
2007
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2011 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Bern
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Geneva ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Micheline Calmy-Rey Description of subject: Micheline Calmy-Rey is a Swiss politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council who served as Switzerland’s foreign minister and twice as President of the Swiss Confederation.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.