Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, writer, and co-founder of the Encyclopédie, renowned as a central intellectual of the Enlightenment.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Denis Diderot canonical | 72 |
| Diderot | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T42149 — 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: Denis Diderot Context triple: [Age of Enlightenment, majorFigure, Denis Diderot]
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Voltaire
Voltaire was an influential 18th-century French writer, philosopher, and satirist known for his advocacy of reason, civil liberties, and criticism of religious and political authority.
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B.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th-century Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose works on political theory, education, and human nature profoundly influenced modern democracy, romanticism, and revolutionary thought.
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C.
Montesquieu
Montesquieu was an influential French Enlightenment philosopher best known for his theory of the separation of powers, which profoundly shaped modern constitutional government.
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D.
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder was an 18th-century German philosopher, theologian, and literary critic whose ideas on language, culture, and history helped shape Romanticism and modern hermeneutics.
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E.
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was a leading French Neoclassical painter renowned for his politically charged and historically themed works that became closely associated with the French Revolution and Napoleonic era.
- 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: Denis Diderot Target entity description: Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, writer, and co-founder of the Encyclopédie, renowned as a central intellectual of the Enlightenment.
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A.
Voltaire
Voltaire was an influential 18th-century French writer, philosopher, and satirist known for his advocacy of reason, civil liberties, and criticism of religious and political authority.
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B.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th-century Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose works on political theory, education, and human nature profoundly influenced modern democracy, romanticism, and revolutionary thought.
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C.
Montesquieu
Montesquieu was an influential French Enlightenment philosopher best known for his theory of the separation of powers, which profoundly shaped modern constitutional government.
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D.
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder was an 18th-century German philosopher, theologian, and literary critic whose ideas on language, culture, and history helped shape Romanticism and modern hermeneutics.
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E.
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was a leading French Neoclassical painter renowned for his politically charged and historically themed works that became closely associated with the French Revolution and Napoleonic era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
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: Denis Diderot Description of subject: Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, writer, and co-founder of the Encyclopédie, renowned as a central intellectual of the Enlightenment.
Referenced by (75)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Collège Louis-le-Grand
this entity surface form:
Diderot