Antoine de Ville
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Antoine de Ville was a 15th-century French military engineer and climber best known for leading the pioneering 1492 ascent of Mont Aiguille, one of the earliest documented technical mountaineering feats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Antoine de Ville canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10513244 — 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: Antoine de Ville Context triple: [Mont Aiguille, firstAscentBy, Antoine de Ville]
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A.
Antoine de Caux
Antoine de Caux was a military commander known for leading forces during the Siege of Acre.
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B.
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
Jean-Antoine de Baïf was a 16th-century French poet and member of the Pléiade group, known for his experiments with classical meters and efforts to reform French versification.
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C.
Jean-Baptiste de Machault d’Arnouville
Jean-Baptiste de Machault d’Arnouville was an 18th-century French statesman who served as a key royal minister under Louis XV before later entering the clergy and becoming associated with the Archdiocese of Reims.
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D.
Jean de Louvres
Jean de Louvres was a 14th-century French architect best known for his major role in shaping the monumental Gothic complex of the Palais des Papes in Avignon.
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E.
Jean-Jacques Olier de Verneuil
Jean-Jacques Olier de Verneuil was a 17th-century French Catholic priest and spiritual reformer who played a key role in the Catholic Reformation in France and in the renewal of clerical education.
- 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: Antoine de Ville Target entity description: Antoine de Ville was a 15th-century French military engineer and climber best known for leading the pioneering 1492 ascent of Mont Aiguille, one of the earliest documented technical mountaineering feats.
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A.
Antoine de Caux
Antoine de Caux was a military commander known for leading forces during the Siege of Acre.
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B.
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
Jean-Antoine de Baïf was a 16th-century French poet and member of the Pléiade group, known for his experiments with classical meters and efforts to reform French versification.
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C.
Jean-Baptiste de Machault d’Arnouville
Jean-Baptiste de Machault d’Arnouville was an 18th-century French statesman who served as a key royal minister under Louis XV before later entering the clergy and becoming associated with the Archdiocese of Reims.
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D.
Jean de Louvres
Jean de Louvres was a 14th-century French architect best known for his major role in shaping the monumental Gothic complex of the Palais des Papes in Avignon.
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E.
Jean-Jacques Olier de Verneuil
Jean-Jacques Olier de Verneuil was a 17th-century French Catholic priest and spiritual reformer who played a key role in the Catholic Reformation in France and in the renewal of clerical education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French military engineer
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human ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ rock climber ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| dateOfActivity | 15th century ⓘ |
| employer | Charles VIII of France ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
early alpinism
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military engineering ⓘ siege warfare ⓘ |
| floruit | late 15th century ⓘ |
| hasAchievement |
constructed temporary structures on the summit of Mont Aiguille
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organized a multi-day stay on the summit of Mont Aiguille ⓘ |
| influenced | later traditions of mountaineering in the Alps ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early use of siege and climbing techniques on a mountain face
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one of the earliest documented technical mountaineering ascents ⓘ |
| ledExpeditionTo | Mont Aiguille ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading the 1492 ascent of Mont Aiguille ⓘ |
| occupation |
climber
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military engineer ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of French military engineering
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history of mountaineering ⓘ |
| performed | first recorded ascent of Mont Aiguille ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Dauphiné
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linked to:
Dauphiné region
Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| usedTechnique |
iron spikes
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ladders ⓘ ropes ⓘ |
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: Antoine de Ville Description of subject: Antoine de Ville was a 15th-century French military engineer and climber best known for leading the pioneering 1492 ascent of Mont Aiguille, one of the earliest documented technical mountaineering feats.
Referenced by (1)
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