Édouard Riou
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Édouard Riou was a 19th-century French illustrator best known for his detailed engravings in Jules Verne’s adventure novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Édouard Riou canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8935403 — 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: Édouard Riou Context triple: [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, hasIllustrator, Édouard Riou]
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A.
Jacques Marin
Jacques Marin was a French character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century French and international films.
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B.
Jacques Clément
Jacques Clément was a French Dominican friar and Catholic League fanatic best known for assassinating King Henry III of France in 1589 during the French Wars of Religion.
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C.
Henri Lebasque
Henri Lebasque was a French post-impressionist painter known for his luminous use of color and intimate domestic and landscape scenes.
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D.
Alexandre Giros
Alexandre Giros is a French businessman best known as a co-founder of the construction and concessions group that became Vinci, one of the world’s largest infrastructure and construction companies.
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E.
François Douaren
François Douaren was a 16th-century French jurist and humanist scholar known for his influential contributions to legal humanism and Roman law studies.
- 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: Édouard Riou Target entity description: Édouard Riou was a 19th-century French illustrator best known for his detailed engravings in Jules Verne’s adventure novels.
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A.
Jacques Marin
Jacques Marin was a French character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century French and international films.
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B.
Jacques Clément
Jacques Clément was a French Dominican friar and Catholic League fanatic best known for assassinating King Henry III of France in 1589 during the French Wars of Religion.
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C.
Henri Lebasque
Henri Lebasque was a French post-impressionist painter known for his luminous use of color and intimate domestic and landscape scenes.
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D.
Alexandre Giros
Alexandre Giros is a French businessman best known as a co-founder of the construction and concessions group that became Vinci, one of the world’s largest infrastructure and construction companies.
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E.
François Douaren
François Douaren was a 16th-century French jurist and humanist scholar known for his influential contributions to legal humanism and Roman law studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French artist
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engraver ⓘ illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| artisticMedium |
book engraving
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drawing ⓘ wood engraving ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1833-12-02 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Brittany
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France ⓘ Ille-et-Vilaine ⓘ Saint-Servan ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Jules Verne
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Pierre-Jules Hetzel ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1900-01-27 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| familyName | Riou ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book illustration
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engraving ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure illustration
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scientific romance illustration ⓘ |
| givenName | Édouard ⓘ |
| hasWorkLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| illustrated |
"In Search of the Castaways"
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linked to:
In Search of the Castaways
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" ⓘ "Les Enfants du capitaine Grant" ⓘ
linked to:
Les Enfants du capitaine Grant
"Vingt mille lieues sous les mers" (early editions, with others) ⓘ
linked to:
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
"Voyage au centre de la Terre" ⓘ
linked to:
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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| knownFor |
depictions of exotic landscapes
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detailed engravings ⓘ visualizing scenes from science fiction and adventure literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| movement | 19th-century illustration ⓘ |
| name | Édouard Riou ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | illustrations for Jules Verne’s novels ⓘ |
| notableWork | illustrations for "Voyages extraordinaires" series ⓘ |
| occupation |
engraver
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illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| representedIn | collections of 19th-century French illustration ⓘ |
| workedOn | illustrated editions of Jules Verne’s adventure novels ⓘ |
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