Guillaume Coustou the Elder
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Guillaume Coustou the Elder was an 18th-century French sculptor renowned for his dynamic Baroque works, including the famous "Marly Horses."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Guillaume Coustou the Elder canonical | 7 |
| Guillaume Coustou the Younger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T564428 — 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: Guillaume Coustou the Elder Context triple: [Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, hadMember, Guillaume Coustou the Elder]
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A.
Henri de Baillet-Latour
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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B.
Charles-René de Bombelles
Charles-René de Bombelles was a French nobleman and military officer who became the third husband of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon Bonaparte’s former empress.
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C.
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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D.
Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his decorative ceiling and religious works, and for helping transition French art toward the Rococo style.
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E.
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.
- 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: Guillaume Coustou the Elder Target entity description: Guillaume Coustou the Elder was an 18th-century French sculptor renowned for his dynamic Baroque works, including the famous "Marly Horses."
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A.
Henri de Baillet-Latour
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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B.
Charles-René de Bombelles
Charles-René de Bombelles was a French nobleman and military officer who became the third husband of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon Bonaparte’s former empress.
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C.
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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D.
Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his decorative ceiling and religious works, and for helping transition French art toward the Rococo style.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Guillaume Coustou the Elder Description of subject: Guillaume Coustou the Elder was an 18th-century French sculptor renowned for his dynamic Baroque works, including the famous "Marly Horses."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.