Jean-Baptiste Carrier
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Jean-Baptiste Carrier was a radical French Revolutionary politician and Jacobin best known for orchestrating brutal mass executions during the Reign of Terror, particularly in Nantes.
All labels observed (1)
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| Jean-Baptiste Carrier canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T606505 — 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: Jean-Baptiste Carrier Context triple: [Jacobin Club, notableMember, Jean-Baptiste Carrier]
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A.
Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie
Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, better known as Joséphine de Beauharnais, was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and the first Empress of the French.
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B.
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat was a radical French revolutionary leader, journalist, and politician known for his fiery writings in L'Ami du peuple and his role in inciting popular violence during the French Revolution.
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C.
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre was a leading Jacobin lawyer and politician who became a central architect of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
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D.
Georges Danton
Georges Danton was a leading French revolutionary and powerful orator who helped drive the overthrow of the monarchy and the early phase of the First French Republic before being executed during the Reign of Terror.
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E.
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gaspard II de Coligny was a prominent 16th-century French admiral and Huguenot leader who became one of the principal Protestant commanders and political figures during the French Wars of Religion.
- 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: Jean-Baptiste Carrier Target entity description: Jean-Baptiste Carrier was a radical French Revolutionary politician and Jacobin best known for orchestrating brutal mass executions during the Reign of Terror, particularly in Nantes.
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A.
Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie
Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, better known as Joséphine de Beauharnais, was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and the first Empress of the French.
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B.
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat was a radical French revolutionary leader, journalist, and politician known for his fiery writings in L'Ami du peuple and his role in inciting popular violence during the French Revolution.
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C.
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre was a leading Jacobin lawyer and politician who became a central architect of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
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D.
Georges Danton
Georges Danton was a leading French revolutionary and powerful orator who helped drive the overthrow of the monarchy and the early phase of the First French Republic before being executed during the Reign of Terror.
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E.
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gaspard II de Coligny was a prominent 16th-century French admiral and Huguenot leader who became one of the principal Protestant commanders and political figures during the French Wars of Religion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Jean-Baptiste Carrier Description of subject: Jean-Baptiste Carrier was a radical French Revolutionary politician and Jacobin best known for orchestrating brutal mass executions during the Reign of Terror, particularly in Nantes.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.