Raoul La Roche
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Raoul La Roche was a Swiss banker and prominent art collector known for his patronage of modern architecture and the arts, including commissioning Le Corbusier’s Villa La Roche in Paris.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raoul La Roche canonical | 2 |
| Maurice Sandoz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T492001 — 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: Raoul La Roche Context triple: [Villa La Roche, designedFor, Raoul La Roche]
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A.
Philippe Erlanger
Philippe Erlanger was a French historian and cultural administrator best known for initiating and organizing the creation of the Cannes Film Festival.
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B.
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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C.
Charles L’Eplattenier
Charles L’Eplattenier was a Swiss painter, decorative artist, and influential art teacher whose nature-inspired style helped shape the early artistic development of architect Le Corbusier.
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D.
Charles Léon
Charles Léon was the illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French servant, known primarily for his connection to the emperor.
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E.
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.
- 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: Raoul La Roche Target entity description: Raoul La Roche was a Swiss banker and prominent art collector known for his patronage of modern architecture and the arts, including commissioning Le Corbusier’s Villa La Roche in Paris.
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A.
Philippe Erlanger
Philippe Erlanger was a French historian and cultural administrator best known for initiating and organizing the creation of the Cannes Film Festival.
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B.
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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C.
Charles L’Eplattenier
Charles L’Eplattenier was a Swiss painter, decorative artist, and influential art teacher whose nature-inspired style helped shape the early artistic development of architect Le Corbusier.
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D.
Charles Léon
Charles Léon was the illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French servant, known primarily for his connection to the emperor.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art collector
ⓘ
banker ⓘ human ⓘ |
| architectOfCommissionedBuilding | Le Corbusier ⓘ |
| collectionContains |
paintings by Georges Braque
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paintings by Pablo Picasso ⓘ works by Amedeo Modigliani ⓘ works by Fernand Léger ⓘ works by Juan Gris ⓘ works by Le Corbusier ⓘ |
| commissioned |
Maison La Roche-Jeanneret
ⓘ
linked to:
Villa La Roche
Villa La Roche ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1889 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1965 ⓘ |
| donatedCollectionTo |
French state
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of France
Musée National d’Art Moderne ⓘ
linked to:
Centre Pompidou
Musée du Louvre ⓘ
linked to:
Louvre Museum
|
| educatedAt | University of Basel ⓘ |
| employer | Bank in Basel ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
architectural patronage
ⓘ
finance ⓘ modern art collecting ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collecting Cubist art
ⓘ
supporting avant-garde art ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| movementSupported |
Cubism
ⓘ
modernism in architecture ⓘ |
| nationality | Swiss ⓘ |
| notableFor |
patronage of modern architecture
ⓘ
patronage of the arts ⓘ |
| notableWork | Villa La Roche ⓘ |
| occupation |
art collector
ⓘ
banker ⓘ |
| patronOf |
Le Corbusier
ⓘ
modern artists ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Basel
ⓘ
linked to:
Basel-Stadt
|
| placeOfDeath | Geneva ⓘ |
| religion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| residence |
Basel
ⓘ
linked to:
Basel-Stadt
Paris ⓘ |
| villaArchitecturalStyle |
International Style
ⓘ
modernist architecture ⓘ |
| villaLocatedIn | Paris ⓘ |
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: Raoul La Roche Description of subject: Raoul La Roche was a Swiss banker and prominent art collector known for his patronage of modern architecture and the arts, including commissioning Le Corbusier’s Villa La Roche in Paris.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.