Jan Maire
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Jan Maire was a 17th-century publisher known for issuing René Descartes’ seminal philosophical work "Discours de la méthode."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jan Maire canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T929178 — 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: Jan Maire Context triple: [Discours de la méthode, publisher, Jan Maire]
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Marian
Marian is a given name of Latin origin commonly used in various European countries for both males and females.
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Johanna
Johanna is the given name of Johanna Spyri, the Swiss author best known for creating the classic children's novel "Heidi."
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C.
Joanna
Joanna is the first name of Joanna Newsom, an American harpist, singer-songwriter, and musician known for her intricate compositions and distinctive vocal style.
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Margareta
Margareta is a feminine given name used in various European languages, closely related to and derived from the name Margaret.
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Ricarda
Ricarda is a feminine given name, primarily used in German- and Spanish-speaking countries, derived from the male name Richard.
- 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: Jan Maire Target entity description: Jan Maire was a 17th-century publisher known for issuing René Descartes’ seminal philosophical work "Discours de la méthode."
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A.
Marian
Marian is a given name of Latin origin commonly used in various European countries for both males and females.
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B.
Johanna
Johanna is the given name of Johanna Spyri, the Swiss author best known for creating the classic children's novel "Heidi."
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C.
Joanna
Joanna is the first name of Joanna Newsom, an American harpist, singer-songwriter, and musician known for her intricate compositions and distinctive vocal style.
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D.
Margareta
Margareta is a feminine given name used in various European languages, closely related to and derived from the name Margaret.
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E.
Ricarda
Ricarda is a feminine given name, primarily used in German- and Spanish-speaking countries, derived from the male name Richard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ philosophical work ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| author | René Descartes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | philosophy ⓘ |
| notableFor | publishing René Descartes’ Discours de la méthode ⓘ |
| notableWork | Discours de la méthode ⓘ |
| occupation | publisher ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor | René Descartes ⓘ |
| publishedWork | Discours de la méthode ⓘ |
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: Jan Maire Description of subject: Jan Maire was a 17th-century publisher known for issuing René Descartes’ seminal philosophical work "Discours de la méthode."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.