Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac was a French explorer and colonial administrator best known for establishing the settlement that became the city of Detroit in New France.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac canonical | 11 |
| Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac | 2 |
| de la Mothe Cadillac | 1 |
| sieur de Cadillac | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T128673 — 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: Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac Context triple: [Detroit, foundedBy, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac]
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Charles-Michel Trudaine de la Sablière
Charles-Michel Trudaine de la Sablière was an 18th-century French aristocrat and influential patron of the arts known for supporting major Enlightenment-era artists and intellectuals.
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B.
Charles Léon
Charles Léon was the illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French servant, known primarily for his connection to the emperor.
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C.
Jean-Baptiste
Jean-Baptiste is the French given name of the mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, known for pioneering Fourier analysis and the study of heat conduction.
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D.
John Sutter
John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
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E.
Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key ally of the American Revolution and later an influential figure in the French Revolution.
- 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: Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac Target entity description: Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac was a French explorer and colonial administrator best known for establishing the settlement that became the city of Detroit in New France.
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A.
Charles-Michel Trudaine de la Sablière
Charles-Michel Trudaine de la Sablière was an 18th-century French aristocrat and influential patron of the arts known for supporting major Enlightenment-era artists and intellectuals.
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B.
Charles Léon
Charles Léon was the illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French servant, known primarily for his connection to the emperor.
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C.
Jean-Baptiste
Jean-Baptiste is the French given name of the mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, known for pioneering Fourier analysis and the study of heat conduction.
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D.
John Sutter
John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
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E.
Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key ally of the American Revolution and later an influential figure in the French Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac Description of subject: Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac was a French explorer and colonial administrator best known for establishing the settlement that became the city of Detroit in New France.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
de la Mothe Cadillac
this entity surface form:
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
this entity surface form:
sieur de Cadillac
subject surface form:
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
this entity surface form:
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
subject surface form:
Cadillac, Michigan