Ferdinand de Lesseps
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Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat and entrepreneur best known for leading the development of the Suez Canal in the 19th century.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ferdinand de Lesseps canonical | 13 |
| Charles de Lesseps | 1 |
| de Lesseps | 1 |
| de Lesseps family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T394157 — 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: Ferdinand de Lesseps Context triple: [Suez Canal, chiefEngineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps]
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A.
Gustave Eiffel
Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer and architect best known for designing the Eiffel Tower and contributing to the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty.
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B.
Guillaume-Henri Dufour
Guillaume-Henri Dufour was a Swiss general, engineer, and humanitarian who co-founded the International Committee of the Red Cross and played a key role in modern Swiss military and civil infrastructure.
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C.
Herman Willem Daendels
Herman Willem Daendels was a Dutch military officer and statesman best known for his Napoleonic-era reforms and infrastructure projects as a colonial administrator in the early 19th century.
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D.
Alexandre Colonna-Walewski
Alexandre Colonna-Walewski was a 19th-century French statesman and diplomat who served notably as foreign minister under Napoleon III and was widely regarded as an illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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E.
André Maginot
André Maginot was a French politician and Minister of War best known for initiating the fortified defensive system along France’s eastern border that came to bear his name.
- 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: Ferdinand de Lesseps Target entity description: Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat and entrepreneur best known for leading the development of the Suez Canal in the 19th century.
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A.
Gustave Eiffel
Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer and architect best known for designing the Eiffel Tower and contributing to the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty.
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B.
Guillaume-Henri Dufour
Guillaume-Henri Dufour was a Swiss general, engineer, and humanitarian who co-founded the International Committee of the Red Cross and played a key role in modern Swiss military and civil infrastructure.
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C.
Herman Willem Daendels
Herman Willem Daendels was a Dutch military officer and statesman best known for his Napoleonic-era reforms and infrastructure projects as a colonial administrator in the early 19th century.
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D.
Alexandre Colonna-Walewski
Alexandre Colonna-Walewski was a 19th-century French statesman and diplomat who served notably as foreign minister under Napoleon III and was widely regarded as an illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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E.
André Maginot
André Maginot was a French politician and Minister of War best known for initiating the fortified defensive system along France’s eastern border that came to bear his name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French diplomat
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur
|
| burialPlace | Père Lachaise Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cerebral hemorrhage ⓘ |
| convictedOf | fraud related to the Panama Canal Company ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1805-11-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1894-12-07 ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
Encyclopædia Britannica
ⓘ
linked to:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
French national biographies ⓘ Larousse ⓘ
linked to:
Larousse Encyclopedia
|
| educatedAt | Lycée Henri-IV ⓘ |
| familyName |
de Lesseps
ⓘ
linked to:
Ferdinand de Lesseps
|
| father | Mathieu de Lesseps ⓘ |
| givenName | Ferdinand ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Count ⓘ |
| heritage | French nobility ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Saint-Simonian ideas on large public works ⓘ |
| knownFor |
attempting to construct the Panama Canal
ⓘ
leading the construction of the Suez Canal ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
ⓘ
Académie française ⓘ |
| mother | Catherine de Grivegnée ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique de Panama
ⓘ
Suez Canal ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 17 ⓘ |
| occupation |
canal engineer
ⓘ
diplomat ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of France
ⓘ
Versailles ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
France
ⓘ
Guilly ⓘ La Chenaie ⓘ
linked to:
La Chênaie
Loiret ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
French consul
ⓘ
consul in Alexandria ⓘ consul in Cairo ⓘ minister plenipotentiary ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
founded the Suez Canal Company
ⓘ
involved in the Panama Canal scandal ⓘ negotiated concession with Said Pasha for the Suez Canal ⓘ present at the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 ⓘ |
| spouse |
Agnès de La Borde
ⓘ
Louise-Hélène Autard de Bragard ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Egypt
ⓘ
Panama ⓘ Paris ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ferdinand de Lesseps Description of subject: Ferdinand de Lesseps was a French diplomat and entrepreneur best known for leading the development of the Suez Canal in the 19th century.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ferdinand de Lesseps
linked to: Ferdinand de Lesseps
linked to: Ferdinand de Lesseps