Charles Garnier
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Charles Garnier was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing Paris’s opulent opera house that now bears his name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Garnier canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T763397 — 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: Charles Garnier Context triple: [Palais Garnier, architect, Charles Garnier]
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A.
Gilles-Barnabé Guimard
Gilles-Barnabé Guimard was an 18th-century French architect active in the Austrian Netherlands, noted for his neoclassical designs in Brussels.
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B.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was a 19th-century French architect and theorist renowned for his influential restorations of medieval buildings such as Notre-Dame de Paris and for shaping the Gothic Revival movement.
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C.
Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard was a pioneering French architect and designer best known for his sinuous, organic Art Nouveau style, especially the iconic Paris Métro entrances.
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D.
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux was an influential 18th-century French architect and urban planner whose visionary, often utopian designs made him a key pioneer of neoclassical architecture.
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E.
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand was a prominent 19th-century French engineer and urban planner known for helping transform Paris’s parks, boulevards, and public spaces under Baron Haussmann.
- 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: Charles Garnier Target entity description: Charles Garnier was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing Paris’s opulent opera house that now bears his name.
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A.
Gilles-Barnabé Guimard
Gilles-Barnabé Guimard was an 18th-century French architect active in the Austrian Netherlands, noted for his neoclassical designs in Brussels.
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B.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was a 19th-century French architect and theorist renowned for his influential restorations of medieval buildings such as Notre-Dame de Paris and for shaping the Gothic Revival movement.
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C.
Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard was a pioneering French architect and designer best known for his sinuous, organic Art Nouveau style, especially the iconic Paris Métro entrances.
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D.
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux was an influential 18th-century French architect and urban planner whose visionary, often utopian designs made him a key pioneer of neoclassical architecture.
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E.
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand was a prominent 19th-century French engineer and urban planner known for helping transform Paris’s parks, boulevards, and public spaces under Baron Haussmann.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ |
| architectOf |
Palais Garnier
ⓘ
linked to:
Palais Garnier, Paris
Paris Opera House ⓘ
linked to:
Palais Garnier, Paris
|
| awardReceived |
Prix de Rome for architecture
ⓘ
linked to:
Prix de Rome
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| birthCountry | France ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1825-11-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Paris ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Cimetière de Montparnasse
ⓘ
linked to:
Montparnasse Cemetery
|
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1898-08-03 ⓘ |
| designed |
Palais Garnier
ⓘ
linked to:
Palais Garnier, Paris
Paris Opera House ⓘ
linked to:
Palais Garnier, Paris
|
| educatedAt | École des Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Garnier ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCity | Paris ⓘ |
| knownFor |
designing the Paris Opera House
ⓘ
ornate Beaux-Arts architectural designs ⓘ |
| movement |
Beaux-Arts architecture
ⓘ
linked to:
Beaux-Arts
Second Empire architecture ⓘ
linked to:
Second Empire
|
| name | Charles Garnier ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Palais Garnier
ⓘ
linked to:
Palais Garnier, Paris
Paris Opera House ⓘ
linked to:
Palais Garnier, Paris
|
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| style |
eclecticism
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historicist architecture ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
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: Charles Garnier Description of subject: Charles Garnier was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing Paris’s opulent opera house that now bears his name.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Palais Garnier, Paris
subject linked to:
Palais Garnier, Paris
subject linked to:
The Dance by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
subject linked to:
Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris (grave later lost)
subject linked to:
La Danse (noted for integration with architecture)
subject linked to:
La Danse (noted for integration with architecture)
subject linked to:
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France
subject linked to:
La Danse