Marquis de Sade
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Marquis de Sade was an 18th-century French nobleman, writer, and philosopher infamous for his libertine sexuality, violent erotic works, and the origin of the term "sadism."
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marquis de Sade canonical | 33 |
| Donatien Alphonse François de Sade | 3 |
| De Sade | 1 |
| Jean-Baptiste François Joseph de Sade | 1 |
| Marquis de Sade: Justine | 1 |
| the Marquis de Sade | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T817371 — 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: Marquis de Sade Context triple: [Bastille, notablePrisoner, Marquis de Sade]
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A.
Pierre Saint-Jean
Pierre Saint-Jean is a French weightlifter best known for delivering the athletes' oath at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
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B.
Maxime Maufra
Maxime Maufra was a French landscape and marine painter associated with the Pont-Aven School and known for his post-Impressionist style and vivid use of color.
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C.
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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D.
Jean-Baptiste Marie Gautier
Jean-Baptiste Marie Gautier was a French painter active in the 18th century who was associated with the prestigious Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.
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E.
Gabriel-François Doyen
Gabriel-François Doyen was an 18th-century French painter known for his dramatic religious and historical compositions within the Rococo and early Neoclassical traditions.
- 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: Marquis de Sade Target entity description: Marquis de Sade was an 18th-century French nobleman, writer, and philosopher infamous for his libertine sexuality, violent erotic works, and the origin of the term "sadism."
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A.
Pierre Saint-Jean
Pierre Saint-Jean is a French weightlifter best known for delivering the athletes' oath at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
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B.
Maxime Maufra
Maxime Maufra was a French landscape and marine painter associated with the Pont-Aven School and known for his post-Impressionist style and vivid use of color.
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C.
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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D.
Jean-Baptiste Marie Gautier
Jean-Baptiste Marie Gautier was a French painter active in the 18th century who was associated with the prestigious Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.
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E.
Gabriel-François Doyen
Gabriel-François Doyen was an 18th-century French painter known for his dramatic religious and historical compositions within the Rococo and early Neoclassical traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
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: Marquis de Sade Description of subject: Marquis de Sade was an 18th-century French nobleman, writer, and philosopher infamous for his libertine sexuality, violent erotic works, and the origin of the term "sadism."
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Slipknot album “The End, So Far”
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subject linked to:
Passion selon Sade (opera)