Du Marais
E181922
Du Marais is a variant form of the name "Marais," typically referring to the same family name or place designation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Des Marais | 1 |
| Du Marais canonical | 1 |
| Le Marais | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1605297 — 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: Du Marais Context triple: [Marais, hasVariantForm, Du Marais]
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A.
Montmartre
Montmartre is a historic hilltop district in Paris known for its artistic heritage, bohemian atmosphere, and panoramic views over the city.
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B.
Montparnasse
Montparnasse is a historic Parisian district famed for its early 20th-century artistic and literary scene, its cafés and studios frequented by avant-garde figures, and landmarks such as the Montparnasse Tower and cemetery.
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C.
La Croix-Rousse
La Croix-Rousse is a historic hilltop district in Lyon, France, known for its silk-weaving heritage, steep slopes, and distinctive village-like atmosphere.
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D.
de Chomedey
de Chomedey is the family name of Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, the French military officer and founder of Montreal.
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E.
La Muette
La Muette is an affluent residential neighborhood in Paris’s 16th arrondissement, known for its embassies, elegant Haussmannian buildings, and proximity to the Bois de Boulogne.
- 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: Du Marais Target entity description: Du Marais is a variant form of the name "Marais," typically referring to the same family name or place designation.
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A.
Montmartre
Montmartre is a historic hilltop district in Paris known for its artistic heritage, bohemian atmosphere, and panoramic views over the city.
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B.
Montparnasse
Montparnasse is a historic Parisian district famed for its early 20th-century artistic and literary scene, its cafés and studios frequented by avant-garde figures, and landmarks such as the Montparnasse Tower and cemetery.
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C.
La Croix-Rousse
La Croix-Rousse is a historic hilltop district in Lyon, France, known for its silk-weaving heritage, steep slopes, and distinctive village-like atmosphere.
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D.
de Chomedey
de Chomedey is the family name of Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, the French military officer and founder of Montreal.
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E.
La Muette
La Muette is an affluent residential neighborhood in Paris’s 16th arrondissement, known for its embassies, elegant Haussmannian buildings, and proximity to the Bois de Boulogne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ variant name form ⓘ |
| duMeaning | of the ⓘ |
| hasCategory | French-language surnames ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Marais
ⓘ
du ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | from the marsh ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
DuMarais
ⓘ
Dumarais ⓘ |
| hasUsageType | toponymic surname ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | Marais ⓘ |
| MaraisMeaning | marsh ⓘ |
| sharesEtymologyWith | Marais ⓘ |
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: Du Marais Description of subject: Du Marais is a variant form of the name "Marais," typically referring to the same family name or place designation.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Le Marais
this entity surface form:
Des Marais