Jean-François de Troy
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Jean-François de Troy was an 18th-century French painter and tapestry designer known for his elegant Rococo history paintings and lively genre scenes depicting aristocratic life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean-François de Troy canonical | 11 |
| Jean-François de Troy’s gallant scenes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T564460 — 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-François de Troy Context triple: [Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, hadMember, Jean-François de Troy]
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A.
Nicolas de Largillière
Nicolas de Largillière was a prominent French Baroque portrait painter renowned for his richly detailed and elegant depictions of aristocrats and notable figures of his time.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste van Loo
Jean-Baptiste van Loo was an 18th-century French painter known for his portraits and history paintings, active at several European courts.
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C.
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun was a leading 17th-century French painter and decorator, chief painter to Louis XIV, and a central figure in defining the grand style of French Baroque art.
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D.
Charles Coypel
Charles Coypel was an 18th-century French painter, tapestry designer, and playwright, known for his influential role at the French court and his celebrated designs for the Gobelins Manufactory.
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E.
Antoine Watteau
Antoine Watteau was an influential early 18th-century French painter best known for his poetic fêtes galantes that helped usher in the Rococo style.
- 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-François de Troy Target entity description: Jean-François de Troy was an 18th-century French painter and tapestry designer known for his elegant Rococo history paintings and lively genre scenes depicting aristocratic life.
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A.
Nicolas de Largillière
Nicolas de Largillière was a prominent French Baroque portrait painter renowned for his richly detailed and elegant depictions of aristocrats and notable figures of his time.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste van Loo
Jean-Baptiste van Loo was an 18th-century French painter known for his portraits and history paintings, active at several European courts.
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C.
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun was a leading 17th-century French painter and decorator, chief painter to Louis XIV, and a central figure in defining the grand style of French Baroque art.
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D.
Charles Coypel
Charles Coypel was an 18th-century French painter, tapestry designer, and playwright, known for his influential role at the French court and his celebrated designs for the Gobelins Manufactory.
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E.
Antoine Watteau
Antoine Watteau was an influential early 18th-century French painter best known for his poetic fêtes galantes that helped usher in the Rococo style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Rococo artist
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human ⓘ painter ⓘ tapestry designer ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1679-01-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1752-01-26 ⓘ |
| designedFor |
Gobelins Manufactory
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linked to:
Manufacture des Gobelins
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| father | François de Troy ⓘ |
| genre |
genre painting
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history painting ⓘ |
| memberOf | Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ⓘ |
| movement | Rococo ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
elegant Rococo history paintings
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lively genre scenes of aristocratic life ⓘ tapestry designs for the Story of Esther series ⓘ tapestry designs for the Story of Jason series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Banquet of Cleopatra
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The Declaration of Love ⓘ The Garter ⓘ The Reading from Molière ⓘ The Triumph of Mardochai ⓘ Time Unveiling Truth ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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tapestry designer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rome ⓘ |
| positionHeld | director of the French Academy in Rome ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| style |
elegant, theatrical compositions
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refined depiction of aristocratic leisure ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Paris
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Rome ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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-François de Troy Description of subject: Jean-François de Troy was an 18th-century French painter and tapestry designer known for his elegant Rococo history paintings and lively genre scenes depicting aristocratic life.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jean-François de Troy