Louis Vigée
E375947
Louis Vigée was a French portrait painter and pastellist of the 18th century, best known today as the father of renowned artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Louis Vigée canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3647512 — 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: Louis Vigée Context triple: [Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, father, Louis Vigée]
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A.
Louis Lagrenée
Louis Lagrenée was an 18th-century French painter known for his elegant Neoclassical and Rococo works and his prominent role in the Parisian art establishment.
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B.
Ferdinand de Marsin
Ferdinand de Marsin was a French general and marshal of France who served prominently during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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C.
Joseph-Marie Vien
Joseph-Marie Vien was an 18th-century French painter and influential early Neoclassicist who helped shape the transition from Rococo to Neoclassical art and trained major artists of the next generation.
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D.
François-Alexandre Duquesney
François-Alexandre Duquesney was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing Paris’s Gare de l'Est railway station.
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E.
Jacques-François
Jacques-François is the given name of Jacques-François Menou, a French general who served during the French Revolutionary period and in Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign.
- 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: Louis Vigée Target entity description: Louis Vigée was a French portrait painter and pastellist of the 18th century, best known today as the father of renowned artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
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A.
Louis Lagrenée
Louis Lagrenée was an 18th-century French painter known for his elegant Neoclassical and Rococo works and his prominent role in the Parisian art establishment.
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B.
Ferdinand de Marsin
Ferdinand de Marsin was a French general and marshal of France who served prominently during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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C.
Joseph-Marie Vien
Joseph-Marie Vien was an 18th-century French painter and influential early Neoclassicist who helped shape the transition from Rococo to Neoclassical art and trained major artists of the next generation.
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D.
François-Alexandre Duquesney
François-Alexandre Duquesney was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing Paris’s Gare de l'Est railway station.
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E.
Jacques-François
Jacques-François is the given name of Jacques-François Menou, a French general who served during the French Revolutionary period and in Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French painter
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human ⓘ pastellist ⓘ portrait painter ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| child |
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
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linked to:
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
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| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1715 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1767 ⓘ |
| era |
Ancien Régime France
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancien Régime
|
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
painting
ⓘ
pastel painting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | portrait ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
ⓘ
linked to:
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Étienne Vigée ⓘ |
| knownAs | Louis Vigée ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| livedIn | Paris ⓘ |
| movement |
French Rococo
ⓘ
linked to:
Rococo
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| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
18th-century French portraiture
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pastel portraits ⓘ |
| notableWork |
portraits in oil
ⓘ
portraits in pastel ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
ⓘ
pastellist ⓘ portrait painter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| siblingOf | Joseph Vigée (engraver) ⓘ |
| spouse | Jeanne Maissin ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
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: Louis Vigée Description of subject: Louis Vigée was a French portrait painter and pastellist of the 18th century, best known today as the father of renowned artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.