Edmond Rostand
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Edmond Rostand was a French playwright best known for his romantic verse drama "Cyrano de Bergerac."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edmond Rostand canonical | 10 |
| Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand | 1 |
| Rostand | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2645710 — 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: Edmond Rostand Context triple: [Roxanne, basedOnAuthor, Edmond Rostand]
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Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, essayist, and playwright known for his poetic, witty dramas such as "The Madwoman of Chaillot" and "Tiger at the Gates."
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Georges Feydeau
Georges Feydeau was a renowned French playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, celebrated for his fast-paced, intricately plotted farces that became classics of the Parisian boulevard theatre.
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C.
Maurice Renard
Maurice Renard was a French writer best known for his early 20th-century science fiction and fantastical novels that explored themes of the uncanny and the supernatural.
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D.
Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist, and diplomat known for his deeply religious, symbolist-influenced works and major contributions to 20th-century French literature.
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E.
Jean Racine
Jean Racine was a 17th-century French dramatist renowned for his classical tragedies and mastery of the French language.
- 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: Edmond Rostand Target entity description: Edmond Rostand was a French playwright best known for his romantic verse drama "Cyrano de Bergerac."
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A.
Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, essayist, and playwright known for his poetic, witty dramas such as "The Madwoman of Chaillot" and "Tiger at the Gates."
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B.
Georges Feydeau
Georges Feydeau was a renowned French playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, celebrated for his fast-paced, intricately plotted farces that became classics of the Parisian boulevard theatre.
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C.
Maurice Renard
Maurice Renard was a French writer best known for his early 20th-century science fiction and fantastical novels that explored themes of the uncanny and the supernatural.
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D.
Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist, and diplomat known for his deeply religious, symbolist-influenced works and major contributions to 20th-century French literature.
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E.
Jean Racine
Jean Racine was a 17th-century French dramatist renowned for his classical tragedies and mastery of the French language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Edmond Rostand Description of subject: Edmond Rostand was a French playwright best known for his romantic verse drama "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Edmond Rostand
linked to: Edmond Rostand
subject linked to:
play "L’Aiglon" by Edmond Rostand
subject linked to:
The Fantasticks (Off-Broadway musical)