Michel Perrin
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Michel Perrin is a French anthropologist and ethnologist known for his studies of indigenous cultures in South America, particularly the Guajiro (Wayuu) people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michel Perrin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2815097 — 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: Michel Perrin Context triple: [Perrin, hasNotableBearer, Michel Perrin]
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A.
Michel Vion
Michel Vion is a former French alpine skier who later became a prominent sports official, notably delivering the officials' oath at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
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B.
René Guiette
René Guiette was a Belgian painter and art critic associated with modernist movements in the early 20th century.
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C.
Michel Andrault
Michel Andrault was a prominent French architect known for his influential large-scale housing and urban development projects in the late 20th century.
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D.
Philippe Perrin
Philippe Perrin is a French test pilot, engineer, and former ESA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle mission STS-111 in 2002.
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E.
Jérôme Coumet
Jérôme Coumet is a French politician who serves as the mayor of Paris's 13th arrondissement.
- 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: Michel Perrin Target entity description: Michel Perrin is a French anthropologist and ethnologist known for his studies of indigenous cultures in South America, particularly the Guajiro (Wayuu) people.
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A.
Michel Vion
Michel Vion is a former French alpine skier who later became a prominent sports official, notably delivering the officials' oath at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
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B.
René Guiette
René Guiette was a Belgian painter and art critic associated with modernist movements in the early 20th century.
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C.
Michel Andrault
Michel Andrault was a prominent French architect known for his influential large-scale housing and urban development projects in the late 20th century.
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D.
Philippe Perrin
Philippe Perrin is a French test pilot, engineer, and former ESA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle mission STS-111 in 2002.
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E.
Jérôme Coumet
Jérôme Coumet is a French politician who serves as the mayor of Paris's 13th arrondissement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French anthropologist
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anthropologist ⓘ ethnologist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| ethnographicFocus |
Guajiro people
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Wayuu people ⓘ indigenous peoples of South America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Americanist anthropology
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linked to:
Americanist ethnology
South American indigenous cultures ⓘ cultural anthropology ⓘ ethnology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ethnographic work in South America
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research on the Guajiro (Wayuu) people ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
studies of indigenous cultures in South America
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studies of the Guajiro (Wayuu) people ⓘ |
| occupation |
anthropologist
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ethnologist ⓘ |
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: Michel Perrin Description of subject: Michel Perrin is a French anthropologist and ethnologist known for his studies of indigenous cultures in South America, particularly the Guajiro (Wayuu) people.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.