Bernard de Marigny
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Bernard de Marigny was a prominent early-19th-century New Orleans landowner, politician, and gambler best known for developing the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernard de Marigny canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7250602 — 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: Bernard de Marigny Context triple: [St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, notableBurial, Bernard de Marigny]
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A.
Jacques de Fariaux
Jacques de Fariaux was a 17th-century French military officer best known for commanding the defending forces during the 1673 siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War.
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B.
Jacques de Maleville
Jacques de Maleville was a French jurist and politician who played a key role as one of the principal drafters of France’s Civil Code under Napoleon.
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C.
Hugues de Saint-Cher
Hugues de Saint-Cher was a 13th-century French Dominican friar, cardinal, and biblical scholar known for producing one of the earliest comprehensive biblical concordances.
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D.
Arnaud de Puyfontaine
Arnaud de Puyfontaine is a French media executive best known as the chief executive officer of Vivendi.
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E.
Antoine de Caux
Antoine de Caux was a military commander known for leading forces during the Siege of Acre.
- 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: Bernard de Marigny Target entity description: Bernard de Marigny was a prominent early-19th-century New Orleans landowner, politician, and gambler best known for developing the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood.
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A.
Jacques de Fariaux
Jacques de Fariaux was a 17th-century French military officer best known for commanding the defending forces during the 1673 siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War.
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B.
Jacques de Maleville
Jacques de Maleville was a French jurist and politician who played a key role as one of the principal drafters of France’s Civil Code under Napoleon.
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C.
Hugues de Saint-Cher
Hugues de Saint-Cher was a 13th-century French Dominican friar, cardinal, and biblical scholar known for producing one of the earliest comprehensive biblical concordances.
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D.
Arnaud de Puyfontaine
Arnaud de Puyfontaine is a French media executive best known as the chief executive officer of Vivendi.
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E.
Antoine de Caux
Antoine de Caux was a military commander known for leading forces during the Siege of Acre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gambler
ⓘ
human ⓘ landowner ⓘ politician ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Faubourg Marigny neighborhood
ⓘ
linked to:
Faubourg Marigny
French Quarter of New Orleans ⓘ
linked to:
French Quarter
early-19th-century New Orleans politics ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developed | Faubourg Marigny ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Creole ⓘ |
| familyName | de Marigny ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
plantation management
ⓘ
politics ⓘ real estate development ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernard ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
Creole culture in New Orleans
ⓘ
urban expansion of New Orleans ⓘ |
| hasPart | Faubourg Marigny neighborhood (as former plantation lands) ⓘ |
| heritage | French Creole ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extravagant lifestyle
ⓘ
heavy gambling ⓘ introducing the game of craps to New Orleans ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | development of Faubourg Marigny ⓘ |
| notableWork | subdivision of the Marigny plantation into Faubourg Marigny ⓘ |
| owned |
Marigny plantation
ⓘ
land east of the French Quarter in New Orleans ⓘ |
| partOf | Creole elite of New Orleans ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Louisiana
ⓘ
New Orleans ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Orleans ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Orleans ⓘ |
| politicalActivity |
involvement in early Louisiana state politics
ⓘ
support for statehood for Louisiana ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
ⓘ
member of the Orleans Territorial Council ⓘ president of the Louisiana State Senate ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Louisiana
ⓘ
New Orleans ⓘ |
| 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: Bernard de Marigny Description of subject: Bernard de Marigny was a prominent early-19th-century New Orleans landowner, politician, and gambler best known for developing the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans