Maurice Herzog
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Maurice Herzog was a French mountaineer and politician best known for leading the 1950 expedition that made the first successful ascent of an eight-thousander.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maurice Herzog canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1656706 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Herzog Context triple: [Annapurna I Main, firstAscendedBy, Maurice Herzog]
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Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer best known for being one of the first two people, alongside Sir Edmund Hillary, to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953.
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B.
Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner is a legendary Italian mountaineer renowned for being the first person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders and for pioneering bold, oxygen-free ascents of the world’s highest peaks.
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C.
Michel-Gabriel Paccard
Michel-Gabriel Paccard was a French physician and mountaineer best known for making the first successful ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786.
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D.
Jacques Balmat
Jacques Balmat was a French mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mont Blanc in 1786.
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Thomas Roupell Everest
Thomas Roupell Everest was a 19th-century English clergyman and writer, best known today as the father of mathematician and educationalist Mary Everest Boole.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Herzog Target entity description: Maurice Herzog was a French mountaineer and politician best known for leading the 1950 expedition that made the first successful ascent of an eight-thousander.
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A.
Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer best known for being one of the first two people, alongside Sir Edmund Hillary, to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953.
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B.
Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner is a legendary Italian mountaineer renowned for being the first person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders and for pioneering bold, oxygen-free ascents of the world’s highest peaks.
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C.
Michel-Gabriel Paccard
Michel-Gabriel Paccard was a French physician and mountaineer best known for making the first successful ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786.
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D.
Jacques Balmat
Jacques Balmat was a French mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mont Blanc in 1786.
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E.
Thomas Roupell Everest
Thomas Roupell Everest was a 19th-century English clergyman and writer, best known today as the father of mathematician and educationalist Mary Everest Boole.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French mountaineer
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French politician ⓘ human ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Légion d'honneur ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Chamonix ⓘ |
| causeOfFame | high-altitude mountaineering achievements ⓘ |
| climbed |
Annapurna
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surface form:
Annapurna I
|
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-01-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-12-13 ⓘ |
| elevationOfNotableClimb_metres | 8091 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French people ⓘ |
| expeditionLeaderOf | 1950 French Annapurna expedition ⓘ |
| familyName | Herzog ⓘ |
| genre | mountaineering literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Maurice ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur ⓘ |
| hasOccupationSpecialization | Himalayan mountaineering ⓘ |
| knownFor |
first successful ascent of Annapurna I
ⓘ
first successful ascent of an eight-thousander ⓘ leading the 1950 French Annapurna expedition ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Rally for the Republic
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Union for the New Republic ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Resistance ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableEvent | suffered severe frostbite during Annapurna descent ⓘ |
| notableWork | Annapurna ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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mountaineer ⓘ politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lyon ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Neuilly-sur-Seine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalFunction | French government minister ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Minister of Youth and Sports of France
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mayor of Chamonix ⓘ member of the National Assembly of France ⓘ |
| publisherOfNotableWork | Éditions Arthaud ⓘ |
| residence | Chamonix ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | mountaineering ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Maurice Herzog Description of subject: Maurice Herzog was a French mountaineer and politician best known for leading the 1950 expedition that made the first successful ascent of an eight-thousander.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Annapurna I Main