Portalis
E217291
French jurist
French politician
French-language surname
civil code
human
jurist
lawyer
legal code
politician
surname
Portalis is a French surname most notably associated with Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, a principal drafter of the Napoleonic Civil Code.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Portalis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1919314 — 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: Portalis Context triple: [Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, familyName, Portalis]
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A.
Portales
Portales is a small city in eastern New Mexico known as the home of Eastern New Mexico University and for its surrounding agricultural community.
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B.
El Portal
El Portal is a small unincorporated community in Mariposa County, California, serving as a gateway to Yosemite National Park along the Merced River.
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C.
Pantopia
Pantopia is a themed area within Busch Gardens Tampa Bay featuring colorful architecture, rides, shops, and entertainment.
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D.
The Forum Library
The Forum Library is the University of Exeter’s main modern library and learning hub, offering extensive academic resources, study spaces, and student services.
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E.
Propædia
Propædia is the outline volume of the 15th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, designed to present a systematic overview of human knowledge and guide readers through the encyclopedia’s contents.
- 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: Portalis Target entity description: Portalis is a French surname most notably associated with Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, a principal drafter of the Napoleonic Civil Code.
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A.
Portales
Portales is a small city in eastern New Mexico known as the home of Eastern New Mexico University and for its surrounding agricultural community.
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B.
El Portal
El Portal is a small unincorporated community in Mariposa County, California, serving as a gateway to Yosemite National Park along the Merced River.
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C.
Pantopia
Pantopia is a themed area within Busch Gardens Tampa Bay featuring colorful architecture, rides, shops, and entertainment.
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D.
The Forum Library
The Forum Library is the University of Exeter’s main modern library and learning hub, offering extensive academic resources, study spaces, and student services.
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E.
Propædia
Propædia is the outline volume of the 15th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, designed to present a systematic overview of human knowledge and guide readers through the encyclopedia’s contents.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French jurist
ⓘ
French politician ⓘ French-language surname ⓘ civil code ⓘ human ⓘ jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ legal code ⓘ politician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | France ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| familyName | Portalis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil law
ⓘ
legal theory ⓘ legislation ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean-Étienne-Marie ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Code civil des Français
ⓘ
linked to:
Code civil
Napoleonic Civil Code ⓘ
linked to:
Napoleonic Code
|
| occupation |
jurist
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
French government official
ⓘ
principal drafter of the Napoleonic Civil Code ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | France ⓘ |
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: Portalis Description of subject: Portalis is a French surname most notably associated with Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, a principal drafter of the Napoleonic Civil Code.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.