Jean Macé
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Jean Macé was a 19th-century French educator, journalist, and politician best known for founding the Ligue de l'enseignement, a major movement promoting public education in France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jean Macé canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5066954 — 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: Jean Macé Context triple: [Lyon-Jean Macé station, namedAfter, Jean Macé]
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A.
Micheline Roquebrune
Micheline Roquebrune is a French-Moroccan painter and golf enthusiast best known as the longtime wife of Scottish actor Sean Connery.
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B.
Marcelle Maurette
Marcelle Maurette was a French playwright best known for her stage works about historical figures, particularly her play about the Grand Duchess Anastasia that inspired the 1956 film adaptation.
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C.
Camille Guérin
Camille Guérin was a French veterinarian and bacteriologist best known as the co-developer of the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis.
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D.
Odile Mallet
Odile Mallet is an actress known for her role in the visually distinctive French science-fiction film "The City of Lost Children."
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E.
Jean Renaudie
Jean Renaudie was a French architect known for his radical, geometric social housing projects and influential role in postwar modernist architecture.
- 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: Jean Macé Target entity description: Jean Macé was a 19th-century French educator, journalist, and politician best known for founding the Ligue de l'enseignement, a major movement promoting public education in France.
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A.
Micheline Roquebrune
Micheline Roquebrune is a French-Moroccan painter and golf enthusiast best known as the longtime wife of Scottish actor Sean Connery.
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B.
Marcelle Maurette
Marcelle Maurette was a French playwright best known for her stage works about historical figures, particularly her play about the Grand Duchess Anastasia that inspired the 1956 film adaptation.
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C.
Camille Guérin
Camille Guérin was a French veterinarian and bacteriologist best known as the co-developer of the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis.
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D.
Odile Mallet
Odile Mallet is an actress known for her role in the visually distinctive French science-fiction film "The City of Lost Children."
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E.
Jean Renaudie
Jean Renaudie was a French architect known for his radical, geometric social housing projects and influential role in postwar modernist architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French politician
ⓘ
educator ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| advocated |
compulsory primary education
ⓘ
laic (secular) schooling ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Ligue de l'enseignement ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Belfort, France ⓘ |
| cause | advocacy of secular public education ⓘ |
| citizenship | French Third Republic ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1815-08-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1894-12-13 ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Macé ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
journalism ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| founded | Ligue de l'enseignement ⓘ |
| genre | educational writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean ⓘ |
| hasHonorificNameIn |
Gare de Lyon-Jean Macé, Lyon
ⓘ
linked to:
Lyon-Jean Macé station
Jean Macé metro station, Rennes ⓘ École Jean-Macé (various schools in France) ⓘ
linked to:
Lycée des métiers Jean Macé
|
| hasWikipediaPage | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Mac%C3%A9 ⓘ |
| influenced | development of public education in France ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding the Ligue de l'enseignement ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| lifespan | 1815–1894 ⓘ |
| memberOf |
French Senate
ⓘ
linked to:
Senate of France
|
| movement | promotion of public education in France ⓘ |
| name | Jean Macé ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ligue de l'enseignement ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | France ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Paris, France
ⓘ
linked to:
Paris
|
| placeOfDeath | Belfort, France ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | republican ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the French Senate ⓘ |
| residence | Alsace region, France ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jean Macé Description of subject: Jean Macé was a 19th-century French educator, journalist, and politician best known for founding the Ligue de l'enseignement, a major movement promoting public education in France.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.