Simone Veil

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French politician Holocaust survivor Member of the European Parliament President of the European Parliament feminist government minister human magistrate

Simone Veil was a prominent French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and stateswoman best known for championing the legalization of abortion in France and serving as the first female President of the European Parliament.

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Label	Occurrences
Simone Veil canonical	5

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1241862 — 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: Simone Veil
Context triple: [Sciences Po, hasNotableAlumni, Simone Veil]

A. Mazarine Pingeot
Mazarine Pingeot is a French writer, academic, and television commentator who became publicly known in the 1990s as the once-secret daughter of former French president François Mitterrand.
B. Édith Cresson
Édith Cresson is a French politician who served as France’s first female prime minister in the early 1990s.
C. Estelle Rosenbaum Blanc
Estelle Rosenbaum Blanc was the longtime wife of famed voice actor Mel Blanc and the mother of their son, producer Noel Blanc.
D. Eliette Mouret
Eliette Mouret is a French former fashion model and artist best known as the wife of renowned Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan.
E. Marie Souvestre
Marie Souvestre was a progressive 19th-century French educator best known for mentoring Eleanor Roosevelt and promoting independent thinking and internationalism among young women.
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: Simone Veil
Target entity description: Simone Veil was a prominent French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and stateswoman best known for championing the legalization of abortion in France and serving as the first female President of the European Parliament.

A. Mazarine Pingeot
Mazarine Pingeot is a French writer, academic, and television commentator who became publicly known in the 1990s as the once-secret daughter of former French president François Mitterrand.
B. Édith Cresson
Édith Cresson is a French politician who served as France’s first female prime minister in the early 1990s.
C. Estelle Rosenbaum Blanc
Estelle Rosenbaum Blanc was the longtime wife of famed voice actor Mel Blanc and the mother of their son, producer Noel Blanc.
D. Eliette Mouret
Eliette Mouret is a French former fashion model and artist best known as the wife of renowned Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan.
E. Marie Souvestre
Marie Souvestre was a progressive 19th-century French educator best known for mentoring Eleanor Roosevelt and promoting independent thinking and internationalism among young women.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French politician ⓘ Holocaust survivor ⓘ Member of the European Parliament ⓘ President of the European Parliament ⓘ feminist ⓘ government minister ⓘ human ⓘ magistrate ⓘ
awardReceived	Charlemagne Prize ⓘ Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur ⓘ surface form: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour Ordre national du Mérite ⓘ surface form: Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (France) Prince of Asturias Award for Concord ⓘ surface form: Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
burialPlace	Panthéon, Paris ⓘ
causeOfDeath	natural causes ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	France ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1927-07-13 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2017-06-30 ⓘ
deportedTo	AuschwitzBirkenau ⓘ surface form: Auschwitz concentration camp
educatedAt	Sciences Po ⓘ Sorbonne University ⓘ surface form: University of Paris
ethnicGroup	French Jews ⓘ
familyName	Veil ⓘ
givenName	Simone ⓘ
hasChild	Claude-Nicolas Veil ⓘ Jean Veil ⓘ Pierre-François Veil ⓘ
knownFor	being a Holocaust survivor ⓘ being first female President of the European Parliament ⓘ legalization of abortion in France ⓘ
legalActChampioned	Law 75-17 of 17 January 1975 on voluntary termination of pregnancy ⓘ
memberOf	Académie française ⓘ Constitutional Council of France ⓘ
memberOfPoliticalParty	Union for French Democracy ⓘ Union for a Popular Movement ⓘ
notableWork	Veil Law ⓘ
occupation	civil servant ⓘ magistrate ⓘ politician ⓘ
parliamentaryGroup	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE Party) ⓘ surface form: Liberal and Democratic Group in the European Parliament
participatedIn	French Resistance ⓘ surface form: French Resistance (as deportee context of WWII)
placeOfBirth	Alpes-Maritimes ⓘ France ⓘ Nice ⓘ
placeOfDeath	France ⓘ Paris ⓘ
positionHeld	Member of the Académie française ⓘ Member of the Constitutional Council of France ⓘ Member of the European Parliament ⓘ Minister of Health of France ⓘ President of the European Parliament ⓘ
religion	Judaism ⓘ
sexOrGender	female ⓘ
spouse	Antoine Veil ⓘ
subjectOf	Panthéon, Paris ⓘ surface form: Panthéon interment ceremony
survived	AuschwitzBirkenau ⓘ surface form: Auschwitz concentration camp BergenBelsen ⓘ surface form: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
workLocation	Brussels, Belgium ⓘ surface form: Brussels Paris ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sciences Po → hasNotableAlumni → Simone Veil ⓘ

Panthéon, Paris → burialPlaceOf → Simone Veil ⓘ

Peace Prize of the German Book Trade → hasNotableRecipient → Simone Veil ⓘ

Lycée Condorcet → hasAlumni → Simone Veil ⓘ

Union for French Democracy → notableMember → Simone Veil ⓘ

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