Guillaume Coustou
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Guillaume Coustou was an 18th-century French sculptor renowned for his dynamic Baroque and early Rococo works, including major royal commissions such as the famous "Marly Horses."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Guillaume Coustou canonical | 2 |
| Guillaume Coustou the Younger | 2 |
| François Coustou | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2437490 — 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: Guillaume Coustou Context triple: [Royal Chapel of Versailles, sculpturalDecorationBy, Guillaume Coustou]
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A.
Nicolas Coustou
Nicolas Coustou was a prominent French Baroque sculptor of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known for his grand religious and royal commissions under Louis XIV.
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B.
Pierre Montet
Pierre Montet was a French Egyptologist renowned for his excavations and discoveries in ancient Egyptian sites, particularly royal tombs.
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C.
André Massoulle
André Massoulle was a French sculptor known for contributing decorative statuary to major Parisian monuments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Léon Boyer
Léon Boyer was a French civil engineer best known for designing major 19th-century railway structures, including the Garabit Viaduct.
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E.
Georges Récipon
Georges Récipon was a French sculptor best known for his ornate allegorical sculptures and monumental works in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Guillaume Coustou Target entity description: Guillaume Coustou was an 18th-century French sculptor renowned for his dynamic Baroque and early Rococo works, including major royal commissions such as the famous "Marly Horses."
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A.
Nicolas Coustou
Nicolas Coustou was a prominent French Baroque sculptor of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known for his grand religious and royal commissions under Louis XIV.
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B.
Pierre Montet
Pierre Montet was a French Egyptologist renowned for his excavations and discoveries in ancient Egyptian sites, particularly royal tombs.
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C.
André Massoulle
André Massoulle was a French sculptor known for contributing decorative statuary to major Parisian monuments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Léon Boyer
Léon Boyer was a French civil engineer best known for designing major 19th-century railway structures, including the Garabit Viaduct.
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E.
Georges Récipon
Georges Récipon was a French sculptor best known for his ornate allegorical sculptures and monumental works in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Guillaume Coustou Description of subject: Guillaume Coustou was an 18th-century French sculptor renowned for his dynamic Baroque and early Rococo works, including major royal commissions such as the famous "Marly Horses."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Guillaume Coustou
linked to: Guillaume Coustou
linked to: Guillaume Coustou
subject linked to:
Royal Chapel