Courcier
E579261
Courcier was a French publishing house known for issuing important mathematical and scientific works in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Courcier canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6236485 — 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: Courcier Context triple: [Théorie analytique des probabilités, publisher, Courcier]
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A.
Vauvert
Vauvert is a commune in southern France known for its location in the Gard department near the Camargue region.
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B.
Drouet
Drouet is a French surname most notably associated with Jean-Baptiste Drouet, the postmaster who helped identify and arrest King Louis XVI during his attempted flight in 1791.
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C.
Couthon
Couthon is a French surname most notably associated with Georges Couthon, a prominent revolutionary figure during the French Revolution.
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D.
Pélissier
Pélissier is a French surname borne by various notable figures, including military leaders, athletes, and artists.
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E.
Breuillet
Breuillet 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: Courcier Target entity description: Courcier was a French publishing house known for issuing important mathematical and scientific works in the early 19th century.
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A.
Vauvert
Vauvert is a commune in southern France known for its location in the Gard department near the Camargue region.
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B.
Drouet
Drouet is a French surname most notably associated with Jean-Baptiste Drouet, the postmaster who helped identify and arrest King Louis XVI during his attempted flight in 1791.
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C.
Couthon
Couthon is a French surname most notably associated with Georges Couthon, a prominent revolutionary figure during the French Revolution.
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D.
Pélissier
Pélissier is a French surname borne by various notable figures, including military leaders, athletes, and artists.
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E.
Breuillet
Breuillet is a commune in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French company
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publishing house ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| field |
mathematics
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science ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
publishing important mathematical works
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publishing important scientific works ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | French ⓘ |
| locationCountry | France ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| reputation | prestigious scientific publisher in early 19th-century France ⓘ |
| typeOfPublication |
mathematical treatises
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scientific monographs ⓘ |
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: Courcier Description of subject: Courcier was a French publishing house known for issuing important mathematical and scientific works in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.