Lionel Terray
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Lionel Terray was a renowned French alpinist and mountaineer celebrated for pioneering ascents of some of the world’s highest and most challenging peaks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lionel Terray canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1583357 — 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: Lionel Terray Context triple: [Makalu, firstAscentBy, Lionel Terray]
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A.
Hector Lefuel
Hector Lefuel was a 19th-century French architect best known for his major role in completing and expanding the Louvre under Napoleon III, helping define the Second Empire architectural style.
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B.
Oskar Trouessart
Oskar Trouessart was a French zoologist and mammalogist known for his taxonomic work on mammals, including the formal description of the now-functionally extinct Yangtze River dolphin (baiji).
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C.
Paul-Henri Thiry
Paul-Henri Thiry was an 18th-century French-German philosopher and prominent Enlightenment thinker best known for his atheistic, materialist critiques of religion and advocacy of secular ethics.
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D.
Roger Ducos
Roger Ducos was a French politician and member of the Directory who played a transitional role in the final phase of the French Revolution leading up to Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power.
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E.
Louis Marie Cordonnier
Louis Marie Cordonnier was a prominent French architect known for his influential Beaux-Arts and regionalist designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Lionel Terray Target entity description: Lionel Terray was a renowned French alpinist and mountaineer celebrated for pioneering ascents of some of the world’s highest and most challenging peaks.
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A.
Hector Lefuel
Hector Lefuel was a 19th-century French architect best known for his major role in completing and expanding the Louvre under Napoleon III, helping define the Second Empire architectural style.
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B.
Oskar Trouessart
Oskar Trouessart was a French zoologist and mammalogist known for his taxonomic work on mammals, including the formal description of the now-functionally extinct Yangtze River dolphin (baiji).
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C.
Paul-Henri Thiry
Paul-Henri Thiry was an 18th-century French-German philosopher and prominent Enlightenment thinker best known for his atheistic, materialist critiques of religion and advocacy of secular ethics.
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D.
Roger Ducos
Roger Ducos was a French politician and member of the Directory who played a transitional role in the final phase of the French Revolution leading up to Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power.
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E.
Louis Marie Cordonnier
Louis Marie Cordonnier was a prominent French architect known for his influential Beaux-Arts and regionalist designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French alpinist
ⓘ
alpinist ⓘ human ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ |
| activeYears |
1940s
ⓘ
1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ |
| authorOf | Conquistadors of the Useless ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Chamonix, France
ⓘ
linked to:
Chamonix
|
| causeOfDeath | climbing accident ⓘ |
| climbed |
Annapurna I
ⓘ
linked to:
Annapurna
Chacraraju ⓘ Fitz Roy ⓘ
linked to:
Cerro Fitz Roy
Makalu ⓘ Taulliraju ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-07-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1965-09-19 ⓘ |
| describedAs | renowned French alpinist and mountaineer ⓘ |
| familyName | Terray ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Himalayan mountaineering
ⓘ
alpine climbing ⓘ |
| genre | mountaineering literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Lionel ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | modern alpine style mountaineering ⓘ |
| knownFor |
first ascents of major Himalayan peaks
ⓘ
high-altitude mountaineering ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | 1950 French Annapurna expedition team ⓘ |
| militaryService |
French Army (World War II)
ⓘ
linked to:
French Army
|
| name | Lionel Terray ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first ascent of Fitz Roy in Patagonia
ⓘ
member of first ascent team of Annapurna I in 1950 ⓘ |
| notableQuoteSource | Conquistadors of the Useless (autobiographical memoir) ⓘ |
| notableWork | Conquistadors of the Useless ⓘ |
| occupation |
alpinist
ⓘ
author ⓘ mountain guide ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 1950 French Annapurna expedition ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Grenoble, France
ⓘ
linked to:
Grenoble
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| placeOfDeath |
Vercors, France
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linked to:
Vercors Massif
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: Lionel Terray Description of subject: Lionel Terray was a renowned French alpinist and mountaineer celebrated for pioneering ascents of some of the world’s highest and most challenging peaks.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Conquistadors of the Useless (autobiographical memoir)
subject linked to:
Conquistadors of the Useless (autobiographical memoir)
subject linked to:
Conquistadors of the Useless (autobiographical memoir)