Mathieu de Lesseps
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Mathieu de Lesseps was a French aristocrat and diplomat of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known as the father of Suez Canal developer Ferdinand de Lesseps.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mathieu de Lesseps canonical | 1 |
| de Lesseps | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2259161 — 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: Mathieu de Lesseps Context triple: [Ferdinand de Lesseps, father, Mathieu de Lesseps]
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A.
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat and entrepreneur best known for leading the development of the Suez Canal in the 19th century.
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B.
Gustave Eiffel
Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer and architect best known for designing the Eiffel Tower and contributing to the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty.
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C.
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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D.
Guillaume-Henri Dufour
Guillaume-Henri Dufour was a Swiss general, engineer, and humanitarian who co-founded the International Committee of the Red Cross and played a key role in modern Swiss military and civil infrastructure.
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E.
Hippolyte Carnot
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.
- 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: Mathieu de Lesseps Target entity description: Mathieu de Lesseps was a French aristocrat and diplomat of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known as the father of Suez Canal developer Ferdinand de Lesseps.
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A.
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat and entrepreneur best known for leading the development of the Suez Canal in the 19th century.
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B.
Gustave Eiffel
Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer and architect best known for designing the Eiffel Tower and contributing to the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty.
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C.
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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D.
Guillaume-Henri Dufour
Guillaume-Henri Dufour was a Swiss general, engineer, and humanitarian who co-founded the International Committee of the Red Cross and played a key role in modern Swiss military and civil infrastructure.
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E.
Hippolyte Carnot
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French aristocrat
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French diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | Ferdinand de Lesseps ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| era |
early 19th century
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late 18th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French people ⓘ |
| familyName |
de Lesseps
ⓘ
linked to:
Mathieu de Lesseps
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| givenName | Mathieu ⓘ |
| memberOf | French nobility ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Ferdinand de Lesseps ⓘ |
| notableWork | diplomatic service for France ⓘ |
| occupation |
aristocrat
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diplomat ⓘ |
| participantIn |
French diplomacy in the early 19th century
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French diplomacy in the late 18th century ⓘ |
| positionHeld | French consul ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Mathieu de Lesseps Description of subject: Mathieu de Lesseps was a French aristocrat and diplomat of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known as the father of Suez Canal developer Ferdinand de Lesseps.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mathieu de Lesseps