Le Clercq
E252081
Le Clercq is the surname of Tanaquil Le Clercq, the renowned mid-20th-century American ballerina associated with the New York City Ballet.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2223022 — 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: Le Clercq Context triple: [Tanaquil Le Clercq, familyName, Le Clercq]
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A.
César De Paepe
César De Paepe was a prominent 19th-century Belgian socialist thinker and physician who played a leading role in the early international labor movement.
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B.
Jan D'Alquen
Jan D'Alquen is a cinematographer best known for his work on the classic coming-of-age film "American Graffiti."
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C.
Eduard Houdremont
Eduard Houdremont was a German industrialist and senior executive at the Krupp conglomerate who was prosecuted for his role in Nazi-era armaments production and exploitation of forced labor during the post-World War II Krupp Trial.
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D.
Willem van Ruytenburch
Willem van Ruytenburch was a 17th-century Dutch militiaman and civic leader best known as the lieutenant in Rembrandt’s famous painting commonly known as "The Night Watch."
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E.
Dignom Cornelisdr de Haes
Dignom Cornelisdr de Haes was a Dutch woman of the 17th century best known as the mother of the famed admiral Cornelis Tromp.
- 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: Le Clercq Target entity description: Le Clercq is the surname of Tanaquil Le Clercq, the renowned mid-20th-century American ballerina associated with the New York City Ballet.
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A.
César De Paepe
César De Paepe was a prominent 19th-century Belgian socialist thinker and physician who played a leading role in the early international labor movement.
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B.
Jan D'Alquen
Jan D'Alquen is a cinematographer best known for his work on the classic coming-of-age film "American Graffiti."
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C.
Eduard Houdremont
Eduard Houdremont was a German industrialist and senior executive at the Krupp conglomerate who was prosecuted for his role in Nazi-era armaments production and exploitation of forced labor during the post-World War II Krupp Trial.
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D.
Willem van Ruytenburch
Willem van Ruytenburch was a 17th-century Dutch militiaman and civic leader best known as the lieutenant in Rembrandt’s famous painting commonly known as "The Night Watch."
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E.
Dignom Cornelisdr de Haes
Dignom Cornelisdr de Haes was a Dutch woman of the 17th century best known as the mother of the famed admiral Cornelis Tromp.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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ballerina ⓘ ballet dancer ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | New York City Ballet ⓘ |
| genre | ballet ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Le Clercq ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Tanaquil ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Tanaquil Le Clercq ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
LeClercq
ⓘ
linked to:
Le Clercq
Leclercq ⓘ
linked to:
Le Clercq
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| memberOf | New York City Ballet ⓘ |
| movement | neoclassical ballet ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a principal dancer at New York City Ballet
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collaborations with George Balanchine ⓘ inspiring roles in Balanchine ballets ⓘ mid-20th-century American ballet career ⓘ |
| notableWorkplace | New York City Ballet ⓘ |
| occupation |
ballet dancer
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teacher ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | George Balanchine ⓘ |
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: Le Clercq Description of subject: Le Clercq is the surname of Tanaquil Le Clercq, the renowned mid-20th-century American ballerina associated with the New York City Ballet.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.