Nostradamus
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Nostradamus was a 16th-century French astrologer and physician best known for his cryptic prophetic verses, which many believe predicted major historical events.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nostradamus canonical | 4 |
| Michel Nostradamus | 1 |
| Michel de Nostredame | 1 |
| Nostredame | 1 |
| de Nostredame | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1923906 — 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: Nostradamus Context triple: [An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, hasNotableEntryOn, Nostradamus]
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A.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was a 16th-century German polymath, occult philosopher, and writer whose works on magic, mysticism, and esotericism profoundly influenced Western occult and hermetic traditions.
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B.
Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Levi was a 19th-century French occultist and writer whose works profoundly shaped modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
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C.
John Dee
John Dee was a 16th-century English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and occult philosopher who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I and became famous for his studies of alchemy and attempts to communicate with angels.
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D.
Constant d’Aubigné
Constant d’Aubigné was a French nobleman and soldier of the early 17th century, best known as the father of Françoise d’Aubigné, later Marquise de Maintenon, the morganatic wife of King Louis XIV.
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E.
de Coligny
de Coligny is a notable French noble family name most famously associated with Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny, a leading Huguenot figure during the French Wars of Religion.
- 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: Nostradamus Target entity description: Nostradamus was a 16th-century French astrologer and physician best known for his cryptic prophetic verses, which many believe predicted major historical events.
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A.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was a 16th-century German polymath, occult philosopher, and writer whose works on magic, mysticism, and esotericism profoundly influenced Western occult and hermetic traditions.
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B.
Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Levi was a 19th-century French occultist and writer whose works profoundly shaped modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
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C.
John Dee
John Dee was a 16th-century English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and occult philosopher who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I and became famous for his studies of alchemy and attempts to communicate with angels.
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D.
Constant d’Aubigné
Constant d’Aubigné was a French nobleman and soldier of the early 17th century, best known as the father of Françoise d’Aubigné, later Marquise de Maintenon, the morganatic wife of King Louis XIV.
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E.
de Coligny
de Coligny is a notable French noble family name most famously associated with Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny, a leading Huguenot figure during the French Wars of Religion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Nostradamus Description of subject: Nostradamus was a 16th-century French astrologer and physician best known for his cryptic prophetic verses, which many believe predicted major historical events.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Michel de Nostredame
this entity surface form:
de Nostredame
this entity surface form:
Michel Nostradamus
this entity surface form:
Nostredame