École Polytechnique
E10698
École Polytechnique is a prestigious French grande école and engineering institution renowned for its rigorous scientific education and influential alumni in mathematics, science, and engineering.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| École Polytechnique canonical | 98 |
| École polytechnique | 3 |
| École Polytechnique (France) | 1 |
| École Polytechnique campus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T51374 — 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: École Polytechnique Context triple: [Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, educatedAt, École Polytechnique]
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École Normale (Paris)
École Normale (Paris) is a prestigious French higher education institution in Paris known for training many of the country’s leading scientists, intellectuals, and educators.
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B.
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University is a major public research university in Paris renowned for its historic humanities, science, and medical faculties.
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C.
Université Paris Cité
Université Paris Cité is a major multidisciplinary public research university in Paris, France, formed from the merger of several historic Parisian institutions and known for its strong programs in science, medicine, and the humanities.
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D.
University of Geneva
The University of Geneva is a major public research university in Switzerland known for its strong programs in international relations, law, and the sciences, and its close ties to numerous international organizations based in Geneva.
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E.
Collège Saint-Pierre
Collège Saint-Pierre is a prominent Catholic educational institution in Haiti affiliated with the Diocese of Haiti.
- 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: École Polytechnique Target entity description: École Polytechnique is a prestigious French grande école and engineering institution renowned for its rigorous scientific education and influential alumni in mathematics, science, and engineering.
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A.
École Normale (Paris)
École Normale (Paris) is a prestigious French higher education institution in Paris known for training many of the country’s leading scientists, intellectuals, and educators.
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B.
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University is a major public research university in Paris renowned for its historic humanities, science, and medical faculties.
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C.
Université Paris Cité
Université Paris Cité is a major multidisciplinary public research university in Paris, France, formed from the merger of several historic Parisian institutions and known for its strong programs in science, medicine, and the humanities.
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D.
University of Geneva
The University of Geneva is a major public research university in Switzerland known for its strong programs in international relations, law, and the sciences, and its close ties to numerous international organizations based in Geneva.
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E.
Collège Saint-Pierre
Collège Saint-Pierre is a prominent Catholic educational institution in Haiti affiliated with the Diocese of Haiti.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
engineering school
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grande école ⓘ public institution of higher education ⓘ |
| academicFocus |
applied mathematics
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computer science ⓘ economics ⓘ engineering sciences ⓘ mathematics ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| admissionVia | competitive entrance examination ⓘ |
| campusType | suburban ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
French National Convention
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Gaspard Monge ⓘ |
| hasAffiliation |
Conférence des grandes écoles
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EuroTech Universities Alliance ⓘ ParisTech (historical network) ⓘ TIME network ⓘ |
| hasAlumnus |
Alain Aspect
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André Citroën ⓘ Bernard Arnault ⓘ Cédric Villani ⓘ Henri Becquerel ⓘ Henri Poincaré ⓘ Jacques Hadamard ⓘ Jean Tirole ⓘ Jean-Louis Verdier ⓘ Laurent Schwartz ⓘ Louis Leprince-Ringuet ⓘ Louis Néel ⓘ Patrick Drahi ⓘ Paul Langevin ⓘ Raymond Poincaré ⓘ Serge Haroche ⓘ Valéry Giscard d’Estaing ⓘ Xavier Niel ⓘ Yves Chauvin ⓘ Émile Picard ⓘ |
| inception | 1794 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
elite engineering training
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influential alumni in engineering ⓘ influential alumni in mathematics ⓘ influential alumni in science ⓘ rigorous scientific education ⓘ training French scientific and technical elites ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction |
English
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French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Palaiseau
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Université Paris-Saclay ⓘ
surface form:
Paris-Saclay campus
Île-de-France region ⓘ
surface form:
Île-de-France
|
| memberOf | Paris-Saclay University ecosystem ⓘ |
| motto | Pour la Patrie, les Sciences et la Gloire ⓘ |
| nickname | l’X ⓘ |
| notableFor |
close ties with industry and research organizations
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strong links with French state administration ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
Ingénieur polytechnicien program
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Master’s degrees ⓘ PhD programs ⓘ |
| originalName |
École des Ponts et Chaussées
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surface form:
École centrale des travaux publics
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| partOf | Institut Polytechnique de Paris ⓘ |
| preparatoryPath | classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles ⓘ |
| previousLocation |
Montagne Sainte-Geneviève
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Paris ⓘ |
| selectivity | highly selective ⓘ |
| supervisingAuthority |
Ministry of the Armed Forces of France
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surface form:
French Ministry of Armed Forces
French Ministry of Higher Education and Research ⓘ |
| type | military-status engineering school ⓘ |
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: École Polytechnique Description of subject: École Polytechnique is a prestigious French grande école and engineering institution renowned for its rigorous scientific education and influential alumni in mathematics, science, and engineering.
Referenced by (103)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.