Hippolyte Carnot
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Hippolyte Carnot was a 19th-century French statesman and politician, known for serving as Minister of Public Instruction during the Second Republic and for being the son of revolutionary leader Lazare Carnot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hippolyte Carnot canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1260586 — 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: Hippolyte Carnot Context triple: [Lazare Carnot, child, Hippolyte Carnot]
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A.
Lazare Carnot
Lazare Carnot was a French mathematician, military engineer, and statesman known as the “Organizer of Victory” for his crucial role in directing French armies during the Revolutionary Wars.
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B.
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin was a prominent French neoclassical architect best known for designing Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.
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C.
Noailles, Adrien Maurice de
Adrien Maurice de Noailles was an 18th-century French marshal and statesman from the influential Noailles family, noted for his prominent military and diplomatic roles under Louis XV.
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D.
Jacques Ignace Hittorff
Jacques Ignace Hittorff was a 19th-century German-born French architect and urban planner known for his major contributions to Parisian architecture and city design, including prominent public buildings and squares.
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E.
Marie François Sadi Carnot
Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman who served as President of the French Third Republic from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
- 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: Hippolyte Carnot Target entity description: Hippolyte Carnot was a 19th-century French statesman and politician, known for serving as Minister of Public Instruction during the Second Republic and for being the son of revolutionary leader Lazare Carnot.
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A.
Lazare Carnot
Lazare Carnot was a French mathematician, military engineer, and statesman known as the “Organizer of Victory” for his crucial role in directing French armies during the Revolutionary Wars.
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B.
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin was a prominent French neoclassical architect best known for designing Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.
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C.
Noailles, Adrien Maurice de
Adrien Maurice de Noailles was an 18th-century French marshal and statesman from the influential Noailles family, noted for his prominent military and diplomatic roles under Louis XV.
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D.
Jacques Ignace Hittorff
Jacques Ignace Hittorff was a 19th-century German-born French architect and urban planner known for his major contributions to Parisian architecture and city design, including prominent public buildings and squares.
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E.
Marie François Sadi Carnot
Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman who served as President of the French Third Republic from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French politician
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human ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfService | France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName | Carnot ⓘ |
| father | Lazare Carnot ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education policy
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public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Hippolyte ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Lazare Carnot ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | biographical works on the Carnot family ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
French Second Republic government
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linked to:
French Second Republic
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| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the son of revolutionary leader Lazare Carnot
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service as Minister of Public Instruction during the French Second Republic ⓘ |
| notableRole | French Minister of Education ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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statesman ⓘ |
| partOf | Carnot family ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | republican ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Minister of Public Instruction of France ⓘ |
| relative | Lazare Carnot ⓘ |
| residence | France ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Sadi Carnot (physicist)
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linked to:
Nicolas Léonard Sadi
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| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hippolyte Carnot Description of subject: Hippolyte Carnot was a 19th-century French statesman and politician, known for serving as Minister of Public Instruction during the Second Republic and for being the son of revolutionary leader Lazare Carnot.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.