Didier Diderot
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Didier Diderot was the son of the French Enlightenment philosopher and writer Denis Diderot and the father of Angélique Diderot.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Didier Diderot canonical | 3 |
| Diderot | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3118557 — 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: Didier Diderot Context triple: [Angélique Diderot, hasRelative, Didier Diderot]
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A.
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, writer, and co-founder of the Encyclopédie, renowned as a central intellectual of the Enlightenment.
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B.
Baron d'Holbach
Baron d'Holbach was an 18th-century French-German philosopher and prominent atheist known for his materialist and anti-religious writings that helped shape Enlightenment thought.
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C.
Louis de Jaucourt
Louis de Jaucourt was an 18th-century French scholar and physician best known for writing thousands of articles for Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, making him one of its most prolific contributors.
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D.
Jean-Jacques-Régis
Jean-Jacques-Régis is the given name of Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, a prominent French statesman and jurist during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era.
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E.
Voltaire
Voltaire was an influential 18th-century French writer, philosopher, and satirist known for his advocacy of reason, civil liberties, and criticism of religious and political authority.
- 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: Didier Diderot Target entity description: Didier Diderot was the son of the French Enlightenment philosopher and writer Denis Diderot and the father of Angélique Diderot.
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A.
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, writer, and co-founder of the Encyclopédie, renowned as a central intellectual of the Enlightenment.
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B.
Baron d'Holbach
Baron d'Holbach was an 18th-century French-German philosopher and prominent atheist known for his materialist and anti-religious writings that helped shape Enlightenment thought.
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C.
Louis de Jaucourt
Louis de Jaucourt was an 18th-century French scholar and physician best known for writing thousands of articles for Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, making him one of its most prolific contributors.
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D.
Jean-Jacques-Régis
Jean-Jacques-Régis is the given name of Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, a prominent French statesman and jurist during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era.
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E.
Voltaire
Voltaire was an influential 18th-century French writer, philosopher, and satirist known for his advocacy of reason, civil liberties, and criticism of religious and political authority.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| child | Angélique Diderot ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName |
Diderot
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linked to:
Didier Diderot
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| father | Denis Diderot ⓘ |
| givenName | Didier ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Diderot family ⓘ |
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: Didier Diderot Description of subject: Didier Diderot was the son of the French Enlightenment philosopher and writer Denis Diderot and the father of Angélique Diderot.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Didier Diderot