Latreille
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Latreille is a French surname most notably associated with Pierre André Latreille, a pioneering 18th–19th century entomologist and taxonomist.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Latreille canonical | 4 |
| Latreille (as eponym) | 1 |
| Latreille, 1802 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3666355 — 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: Latreille Context triple: [Pierre André Latreille, familyName, Latreille]
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A.
Mouton-Duvernet
Mouton-Duvernet is a Paris Métro station in the 14th arrondissement, serving the Montparnasse area and named after the French general Régis Barthélemy Mouton-Duvernet.
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B.
Desmarest
Desmarest was a French naturalist known for his early 19th-century taxonomic work describing various animal species, including the swamp wallaby.
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C.
Gressier
Gressier is a coastal commune in western Haiti known for its proximity to Port-au-Prince and its vulnerability to earthquakes and hurricanes.
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D.
Ganthier
Ganthier is a commune in western Haiti known for its rural character and proximity to the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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E.
Souvestre
Souvestre is a French surname notably borne by educator Marie Souvestre, known for her progressive influence on women’s education in the 19th century.
- 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: Latreille Target entity description: Latreille is a French surname most notably associated with Pierre André Latreille, a pioneering 18th–19th century entomologist and taxonomist.
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A.
Mouton-Duvernet
Mouton-Duvernet is a Paris Métro station in the 14th arrondissement, serving the Montparnasse area and named after the French general Régis Barthélemy Mouton-Duvernet.
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B.
Desmarest
Desmarest was a French naturalist known for his early 19th-century taxonomic work describing various animal species, including the swamp wallaby.
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C.
Greuze
Greuze is a French surname most famously associated with Jean-Baptiste Greuze, an 18th-century painter known for his sentimental and moralizing genre scenes.
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D.
Gressier
Gressier is a coastal commune in western Haiti known for its proximity to Port-au-Prince and its vulnerability to earthquakes and hurricanes.
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E.
Ganthier
Ganthier is a commune in western Haiti known for its rural character and proximity to the capital, Port-au-Prince.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entomologist
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ taxonomist ⓘ zoologist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1762-11-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1833-02-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Collège du Cardinal-Lemoine
ⓘ
linked to:
Collège du Cardinal Lemoine
|
| employer | Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entomology
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taxonomy ⓘ zoology ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Latreille ⓘ |
| hasGivenName |
André
ⓘ
Pierre ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie des sciences
ⓘ
linked to:
Académie des Sciences
|
| notableBearer | Pierre André Latreille ⓘ |
| notableFor |
foundational work in insect classification
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pioneering contributions to modern entomological taxonomy ⓘ |
| occupation | Roman Catholic priest ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brive-la-Gaillarde ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| 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: Latreille Description of subject: Latreille is a French surname most notably associated with Pierre André Latreille, a pioneering 18th–19th century entomologist and taxonomist.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.