Madame du Deffand
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Madame du Deffand was an influential 18th-century French salonnière and letter writer renowned for hosting one of Paris’s most important intellectual salons, frequented by leading Enlightenment figures.
All labels observed (1)
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| Madame du Deffand canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13837063 — 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: Madame du Deffand Context triple: [Julie de Lespinasse, associatedWith, Madame du Deffand]
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Julie de Lespinasse
Julie de Lespinasse was an influential 18th-century French salonnière and letter writer renowned for her intellectual gatherings and passionate correspondence at the heart of Enlightenment society.
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B.
Madame de Sévigné
Madame de Sévigné was a 17th-century French aristocrat and celebrated letter-writer whose witty, detailed correspondence offers a vivid portrait of the court of Louis XIV and French society of her time.
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C.
Octavie de Laharpe
Octavie de Laharpe was a 19th-century French woman best known as the wife of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the influential urban planner who transformed Paris under Napoleon III.
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D.
Angélique Diderot
Angélique Diderot was the daughter of French Enlightenment philosopher and Encyclopédie co-founder Denis Diderot.
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E.
Anne-Catherine de Ligniville
Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, known as Madame Helvétius, was an influential 18th-century French salonnière whose renowned literary and philosophical salon in Auteuil attracted leading Enlightenment figures such as Diderot, d’Alembert, and Benjamin Franklin.
- 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: Madame du Deffand Target entity description: Madame du Deffand was an influential 18th-century French salonnière and letter writer renowned for hosting one of Paris’s most important intellectual salons, frequented by leading Enlightenment figures.
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A.
Julie de Lespinasse
Julie de Lespinasse was an influential 18th-century French salonnière and letter writer renowned for her intellectual gatherings and passionate correspondence at the heart of Enlightenment society.
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B.
Madame de Sévigné
Madame de Sévigné was a 17th-century French aristocrat and celebrated letter-writer whose witty, detailed correspondence offers a vivid portrait of the court of Louis XIV and French society of her time.
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C.
Octavie de Laharpe
Octavie de Laharpe was a 19th-century French woman best known as the wife of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the influential urban planner who transformed Paris under Napoleon III.
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D.
Angélique Diderot
Angélique Diderot was the daughter of French Enlightenment philosopher and Encyclopédie co-founder Denis Diderot.
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E.
Anne-Catherine de Ligniville
Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, known as Madame Helvétius, was an influential 18th-century French salonnière whose renowned literary and philosophical salon in Auteuil attracted leading Enlightenment figures such as Diderot, d’Alembert, and Benjamin Franklin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.