Peter Maurin
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Peter Maurin was a French-born Catholic social activist, writer, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, known for his advocacy of personalism, voluntary poverty, and hospitality to the poor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Maurin canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T860721 — 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: Peter Maurin Context triple: [Dorothy Day, coFounderWith, Peter Maurin]
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A.
Victor Laloux
Victor Laloux was a prominent French architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his grand Beaux-Arts railway stations and public buildings in Paris.
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B.
Émile Nouguier
Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Eiffel Tower.
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C.
Jules Guérin
Jules Guérin was an American muralist and illustrator known for his architectural murals and color-rich decorative work on major public buildings in the early 20th century.
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D.
Théodore Maunoir
Théodore Maunoir was a Swiss physician and humanitarian who was one of the key co-founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 19th century.
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E.
Louis Marie Cordonnier
Louis Marie Cordonnier was a prominent French architect known for his influential Beaux-Arts and regionalist designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Peter Maurin Target entity description: Peter Maurin was a French-born Catholic social activist, writer, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, known for his advocacy of personalism, voluntary poverty, and hospitality to the poor.
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A.
Victor Laloux
Victor Laloux was a prominent French architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his grand Beaux-Arts railway stations and public buildings in Paris.
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B.
Émile Nouguier
Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Eiffel Tower.
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C.
Jules Guérin
Jules Guérin was an American muralist and illustrator known for his architectural murals and color-rich decorative work on major public buildings in the early 20th century.
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D.
Théodore Maunoir
Théodore Maunoir was a Swiss physician and humanitarian who was one of the key co-founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 19th century.
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E.
Louis Marie Cordonnier
Louis Marie Cordonnier was a prominent French architect known for his influential Beaux-Arts and regionalist designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic Worker Movement co-founder
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Catholic social activist ⓘ human ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| advocated |
agronomic universities
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houses of hospitality ⓘ round-table discussions for the clarification of thought ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Catholic Worker newspaper
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surface form:
The Catholic Worker newspaper
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| birthCountry | France ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1877-05-09 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Oultet, Lozère, France ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
St. John's Cemetery, Queens
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surface form:
St. John’s Cemetery, Queens, New York
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| coFounded | Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ |
| coFounderWith | Dorothy Day ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1949-05-15 ⓘ |
| denomination |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Maurin ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| ideology |
Christian personalism
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communal hospitality ⓘ voluntary poverty ⓘ |
| influenced |
Catholic Worker Movement
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Dorothy Day ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Catholic social encyclicals
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personalist philosophy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
Catholic social teaching
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agrarianism ⓘ distributism ⓘ hospitality to the poor ⓘ personalism ⓘ voluntary poverty ⓘ |
| movement | Catholic Worker Movement ⓘ |
| name | Peter Maurin self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding the Catholic Worker Movement
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teaching radical application of the Gospel to social problems ⓘ writing Easy Essays ⓘ |
| notableWork | Easy Essays ⓘ |
| occupation |
Catholic layman
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social activist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| promoted |
nonviolence
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works of mercy ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
|
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Peter Maurin Description of subject: Peter Maurin was a French-born Catholic social activist, writer, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, known for his advocacy of personalism, voluntary poverty, and hospitality to the poor.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Catholic Worker