Henri de Baillet-Latour
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Henri de Baillet-Latour was a Belgian aristocrat and sports administrator who served as the third president of the International Olympic Committee from 1925 to 1942.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henri de Baillet-Latour canonical | 5 |
| de Baillet-Latour | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T428575 — 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: Henri de Baillet-Latour Context triple: [1936 Summer Olympics, iocPresidentAtGames, Henri de Baillet-Latour]
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A.
François Denis Tronchet
François Denis Tronchet was a prominent French jurist and legal scholar who played a key role in shaping modern French civil law.
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B.
Henri Chrétien
Henri Chrétien was a French astronomer and optical engineer best known for co-developing the Ritchey–Chrétien telescope design and pioneering wide-angle optical systems.
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C.
Albert von Le Coq
Albert von Le Coq was a German archaeologist and explorer best known for leading expeditions in Central Asia that uncovered important Buddhist art and manuscripts, including early evidence of the Tocharian languages.
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D.
Théodore Maunoir
Théodore Maunoir was a Swiss physician and humanitarian who was one of the key co-founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 19th century.
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E.
Charles Léon
Charles Léon was the illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French servant, known primarily for his connection to the emperor.
- 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: Henri de Baillet-Latour Target entity description: Henri de Baillet-Latour was a Belgian aristocrat and sports administrator who served as the third president of the International Olympic Committee from 1925 to 1942.
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A.
François Denis Tronchet
François Denis Tronchet was a prominent French jurist and legal scholar who played a key role in shaping modern French civil law.
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B.
Henri Chrétien
Henri Chrétien was a French astronomer and optical engineer best known for co-developing the Ritchey–Chrétien telescope design and pioneering wide-angle optical systems.
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C.
Albert von Le Coq
Albert von Le Coq was a German archaeologist and explorer best known for leading expeditions in Central Asia that uncovered important Buddhist art and manuscripts, including early evidence of the Tocharian languages.
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D.
Théodore Maunoir
Théodore Maunoir was a Swiss physician and humanitarian who was one of the key co-founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 19th century.
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E.
Charles Léon
Charles Léon was the illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French servant, known primarily for his connection to the emperor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Belgian aristocrat
ⓘ
human ⓘ sports administrator ⓘ |
| affiliation | International Olympic Committee ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Belgium ⓘ |
| endTime | 1942 ⓘ |
| familyName |
de Baillet-Latour
ⓘ
linked to:
Henri de Baillet-Latour
|
| fieldOfWork |
Olympic movement
ⓘ
linked to:
International Olympic movement
sports governance ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Henri ⓘ |
| hasTitle | aristocrat ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Dutch
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| memberOf | International Olympic Committee ⓘ |
| notableFor | presidency of the IOC from 1925 to 1942 ⓘ |
| notableRole | third president of the International Olympic Committee ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of the International Olympic Committee ⓘ |
| occupation |
sports administrator
ⓘ
sports official ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 3 ⓘ |
| partOf | Belgian nobility ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of the International Olympic Committee ⓘ |
| residence | Belgium ⓘ |
| startTime | 1925 ⓘ |
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: Henri de Baillet-Latour Description of subject: Henri de Baillet-Latour was a Belgian aristocrat and sports administrator who served as the third president of the International Olympic Committee from 1925 to 1942.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.