Victor Hugues
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Victor Hugues is a historical French revolutionary figure and colonial administrator in the Caribbean, notably active during the French Revolution and the abolition and later reimposition of slavery in the colonies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Victor Hugues canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5498120 — 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: Victor Hugues Context triple: [El siglo de las luces, hasCharacter, Victor Hugues]
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A.
Léon Gambetta
Léon Gambetta was a prominent French republican statesman who played a key leadership role in organizing France’s resistance and government during and after the Franco-Prussian War.
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B.
Jules Ferry
Jules Ferry was a prominent French statesman of the early Third Republic, best known for championing free, compulsory, secular education and for his role in expanding France’s colonial empire.
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C.
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau was a prominent French statesman and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of France at the turn of the 20th century and played a key role in shaping the Third Republic’s liberal and secular policies.
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D.
Odilon Barrot
Odilon Barrot was a 19th-century French lawyer and statesman who played a key political role during the July Monarchy and the early years of the French Second Republic.
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E.
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis was a prominent French jurist and statesman best known as a principal architect of the Napoleonic Code and a key figure in shaping modern civil law.
- 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: Victor Hugues Target entity description: Victor Hugues is a historical French revolutionary figure and colonial administrator in the Caribbean, notably active during the French Revolution and the abolition and later reimposition of slavery in the colonies.
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A.
Léon Gambetta
Léon Gambetta was a prominent French republican statesman who played a key leadership role in organizing France’s resistance and government during and after the Franco-Prussian War.
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B.
Jules Ferry
Jules Ferry was a prominent French statesman of the early Third Republic, best known for championing free, compulsory, secular education and for his role in expanding France’s colonial empire.
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C.
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau was a prominent French statesman and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of France at the turn of the 20th century and played a key role in shaping the Third Republic’s liberal and secular policies.
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D.
Odilon Barrot
Odilon Barrot was a 19th-century French lawyer and statesman who played a key political role during the July Monarchy and the early years of the French Second Republic.
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E.
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis was a prominent French jurist and statesman best known as a principal architect of the Napoleonic Code and a key figure in shaping modern civil law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French politician
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French revolutionary ⓘ colonial administrator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
French Directory
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National Convention ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1762-07-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1826-08-12 ⓘ |
| employer |
French First Republic
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French colonial administration ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName | Hugues ⓘ |
| givenName | Victor ⓘ |
| ideology |
French republicanism
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Jacobinism ⓘ
linked to:
Jacobin centralism
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| knownFor |
Abolishing slavery in Guadeloupe in 1794
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Later enforcing the reestablishment of slavery under Napoleonic rule ⓘ Leading the revolutionary government in Guadeloupe ⓘ Organizing privateering against British shipping in the Caribbean ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commissaire civil ⓘ |
| movement | French Revolution ⓘ |
| name | Victor Hugues ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Abolition of slavery in French Caribbean colonies
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Implementation of the decree of 16 Pluviôse Year II ⓘ Revolutionary wars in the Caribbean ⓘ War against British forces in the Caribbean ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Abolition of slavery in Guadeloupe (1794)
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Reimposition of slavery in Guadeloupe (1802) ⓘ |
| occupation |
colonial administrator
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politician ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Caribbean campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars
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French Revolutionary Wars ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of France
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Marseille ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Cayenne
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French Guiana ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commissioner of the National Convention in Guadeloupe
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Governor of French Guiana ⓘ Governor of Guadeloupe ⓘ |
| residence |
France
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French Guiana ⓘ Guadeloupe ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Victor Hugues Description of subject: Victor Hugues is a historical French revolutionary figure and colonial administrator in the Caribbean, notably active during the French Revolution and the abolition and later reimposition of slavery in the colonies.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.