Pierre-Alexandre Vignon
E184709
Pierre-Alexandre Vignon was a French neoclassical architect best known for designing the church of La Madeleine in Paris.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pierre-Alexandre Vignon canonical | 4 |
| Pierre-Alexandre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1279396 — 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: Pierre-Alexandre Vignon Context triple: [La Madeleine, Paris, architect, Pierre-Alexandre Vignon]
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A.
Pierre-Émile Martin
Pierre-Émile Martin was a 19th-century French engineer and metallurgist best known for pioneering advances in steelmaking technology.
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B.
Stéphane Préfontaine
Stéphane Préfontaine is a Canadian former middle-distance runner best known for serving as one of the final torchbearers who lit the Olympic cauldron at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics.
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C.
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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D.
Jean‑François Gagné
Jean‑François Gagné is a Canadian entrepreneur and artificial intelligence expert best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the AI company Element AI.
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E.
Marcel Desautels
Marcel Desautels was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist best known for his major contributions to higher education and business schools in Canada.
- 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: Pierre-Alexandre Vignon Target entity description: Pierre-Alexandre Vignon was a French neoclassical architect best known for designing the church of La Madeleine in Paris.
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A.
Pierre-Émile Martin
Pierre-Émile Martin was a 19th-century French engineer and metallurgist best known for pioneering advances in steelmaking technology.
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B.
Stéphane Préfontaine
Stéphane Préfontaine is a Canadian former middle-distance runner best known for serving as one of the final torchbearers who lit the Olympic cauldron at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics.
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C.
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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D.
Jean‑François Gagné
Jean‑François Gagné is a Canadian entrepreneur and artificial intelligence expert best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the AI company Element AI.
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E.
Marcel Desautels
Marcel Desautels was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist best known for his major contributions to higher education and business schools in Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ neoclassical architect ⓘ |
| activeInCentury |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Neoclassical ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| designed |
La Madeleine, Paris
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Église de la Madeleine ⓘ |
| familyName | Vignon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| givenName |
Pierre-Alexandre Vignon
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Pierre-Alexandre
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| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| movement | Neoclassicism ⓘ |
| name | Pierre-Alexandre Vignon self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | designing the church of La Madeleine in Paris ⓘ |
| notableWork |
La Madeleine, Paris
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Église de la Madeleine ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Paris ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Paris
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surface form:
Paris, France
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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: Pierre-Alexandre Vignon Description of subject: Pierre-Alexandre Vignon was a French neoclassical architect best known for designing the church of La Madeleine in Paris.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pierre-Alexandre