Port-Royal de Paris

E406251

Catholic religious house Jansenist center convent

Port-Royal de Paris was the urban convent and school of the Jansenist Port-Royal community in Paris, known as a center of religious reform and rigorous Catholic spirituality in the 17th century.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Petites écoles de Port-Royal	6
Port-Royal de Paris canonical	3
Port-Royal schools	2
Port-Royal school	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4011566 — 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: Port-Royal de Paris
Context triple: [Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal, hasPart, Port-Royal de Paris]

A. Le Curé de Tours
Le Curé de Tours is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intrigues, provincial politics, and clerical rivalries in a small French town.
B. Le Vieux Cordelier
Le Vieux Cordelier was a revolutionary newspaper founded by French journalist and politician Camille Desmoulins that became notable for its criticism of the excesses of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
C. Les Rouge et Noir
Les Rouge et Noir is the popular nickname of USM Alger, a prominent Algerian football club known for its red and black colors.
D. La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret
La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores religious fervor, sexuality, and guilt through the tragic story of a young priest torn between his faith and earthly desire.
E. La Ville-du-Bois
La Ville-du-Bois is a commune in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France.
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: Port-Royal de Paris
Target entity description: Port-Royal de Paris was the urban convent and school of the Jansenist Port-Royal community in Paris, known as a center of religious reform and rigorous Catholic spirituality in the 17th century.

A. Le Curé de Tours
Le Curé de Tours is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intrigues, provincial politics, and clerical rivalries in a small French town.
B. Le Vieux Cordelier
Le Vieux Cordelier was a revolutionary newspaper founded by French journalist and politician Camille Desmoulins that became notable for its criticism of the excesses of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
C. Les Rouge et Noir
Les Rouge et Noir is the popular nickname of USM Alger, a prominent Algerian football club known for its red and black colors.
D. La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret
La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores religious fervor, sexuality, and guilt through the tragic story of a young priest torn between his faith and earthly desire.
E. La Ville-du-Bois
La Ville-du-Bois is a commune in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Catholic religious house ⓘ Jansenist center ⓘ convent ⓘ
affiliation	Jansenism ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
educationalPhilosophy	emphasis on classical studies ⓘ emphasis on logic and grammar ⓘ rigorous moral discipline ⓘ
era	17th century ⓘ
foundedBy	Cistercian nuns of Port-Royal des Champs ⓘ linked to: Cistercian nuns
hasConnectionWith	Antoine Arnauld ⓘ Blaise Pascal ⓘ Jean Racine ⓘ Port-Royal des Champs ⓘ linked to: Port-Royal-des-Champs Port-Royal logic and pedagogy ⓘ linked to: Port-Royal Logic
hasPart	convent ⓘ school ⓘ
heritage	influence on Catholic spirituality ⓘ influence on French education ⓘ influence on French literature ⓘ
knownFor	Jansenist theology ⓘ religious reform ⓘ rigorous Catholic spirituality ⓘ
languageOfInstitution	French ⓘ
locatedIn	Faubourg Saint-Jacques ⓘ linked to: rue Saint-Jacques Paris ⓘ
movement	Catholic Reformation ⓘ linked to: Counter-Reformation French Jansenism ⓘ linked to: Jansenism
opposedBy	French ecclesiastical authorities ⓘ Louis XIV ⓘ linked to: Louis XIV of France Society of Jesus ⓘ
partOf	Port-Royal community ⓘ linked to: Port-Royal Solitaries
religion	Catholicism ⓘ linked to: Roman Catholicism
roleInHistory	center of Jansenist resistance in Paris ⓘ symbol of conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits ⓘ symbol of rigorist Catholic piety in France ⓘ
significantEvent	controversies over Jansenism ⓘ persecution by French crown and Church authorities ⓘ
theologicalOrientation	Augustinianism ⓘ linked to: Augustinian theology
tradition	Latin schooling ⓘ monastic enclosure ⓘ
use	monastic life ⓘ religious education ⓘ theological study ⓘ

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