François Ravaillac
E176973
François Ravaillac was a French Catholic zealot best known for assassinating King Henry IV of France in 1610.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| François Ravaillac canonical | 6 |
| Ravaillac | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1564697 — 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: François Ravaillac Context triple: [Henry IV of France, killer, François Ravaillac]
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Constant d’Aubigné
Constant d’Aubigné was a French nobleman and soldier of the early 17th century, best known as the father of Françoise d’Aubigné, later Marquise de Maintenon, the morganatic wife of King Louis XIV.
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B.
Odet de Coligny
Odet de Coligny was a 16th-century French cardinal and prominent member of the influential Coligny family who later converted to Protestantism during the French Wars of Religion.
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C.
Jean-Baptiste Carrier
Jean-Baptiste Carrier was a radical French Revolutionary politician and Jacobin best known for orchestrating brutal mass executions during the Reign of Terror, particularly in Nantes.
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D.
Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie
Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, better known as Joséphine de Beauharnais, was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and the first Empress of the French.
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E.
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat was a radical French revolutionary leader, journalist, and politician known for his fiery writings in L'Ami du peuple and his role in inciting popular violence during the French Revolution.
- 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: François Ravaillac Target entity description: François Ravaillac was a French Catholic zealot best known for assassinating King Henry IV of France in 1610.
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A.
Constant d’Aubigné
Constant d’Aubigné was a French nobleman and soldier of the early 17th century, best known as the father of Françoise d’Aubigné, later Marquise de Maintenon, the morganatic wife of King Louis XIV.
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B.
Odet de Coligny
Odet de Coligny was a 16th-century French cardinal and prominent member of the influential Coligny family who later converted to Protestantism during the French Wars of Religion.
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C.
Jean-Baptiste Carrier
Jean-Baptiste Carrier was a radical French Revolutionary politician and Jacobin best known for orchestrating brutal mass executions during the Reign of Terror, particularly in Nantes.
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D.
Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie
Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, better known as Joséphine de Beauharnais, was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and the first Empress of the French.
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E.
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat was a radical French revolutionary leader, journalist, and politician known for his fiery writings in L'Ami du peuple and his role in inciting popular violence during the French Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: François Ravaillac Description of subject: François Ravaillac was a French Catholic zealot best known for assassinating King Henry IV of France in 1610.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Good King Henry
linked to: François Ravaillac
subject linked to:
Rue de la Ferronnerie, Paris
subject linked to:
Rue de la Ferronnerie, Paris