Edgar Quinet
E333064
Edgar Quinet is a Paris Métro station in the Montparnasse area, named after the 19th-century French historian and intellectual Edgar Quinet.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edgar Quinet canonical | 2 |
| Edgar Quinet (historian) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3173428 — 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: Edgar Quinet Context triple: [Paris Métro Line 6, servesStation, Edgar Quinet]
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A.
Théophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier was a 19th-century French poet, novelist, and critic known for championing "art for art’s sake" and influencing later Symbolist writers.
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B.
Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard
Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard was a Portuguese engineer of French origin best known for designing several iconic urban elevators and funiculars in Lisbon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Jean Moréas
Jean Moréas was a Greek-born French poet and critic best known for helping define and promote the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century literature.
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D.
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue was a French Symbolist poet known for his innovative free verse, ironic tone, and pioneering use of interior monologue that deeply influenced modernist literature.
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E.
Hector Malot
Hector Malot was a 19th-century French novelist best known for his classic children's book "Sans Famille" ("Nobody's Boy").
- 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: Edgar Quinet Target entity description: Edgar Quinet is a Paris Métro station in the Montparnasse area, named after the 19th-century French historian and intellectual Edgar Quinet.
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A.
Théophile Gautier
Théophile Gautier was a 19th-century French poet, novelist, and critic known for championing "art for art’s sake" and influencing later Symbolist writers.
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B.
Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard
Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard was a Portuguese engineer of French origin best known for designing several iconic urban elevators and funiculars in Lisbon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Jean Moréas
Jean Moréas was a Greek-born French poet and critic best known for helping define and promote the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century literature.
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D.
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue was a French Symbolist poet known for his innovative free verse, ironic tone, and pioneering use of interior monologue that deeply influenced modernist literature.
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E.
Hector Malot
Hector Malot was a 19th-century French novelist best known for his classic children's book "Sans Famille" ("Nobody's Boy").
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Paris Métro station
ⓘ
underground railway station ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| fareZone | Paris fare zone 1 ⓘ |
| hasCountryCapitalCity | Paris ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasPlatformType | side platforms ⓘ |
| hasSignificance | serves Montparnasse district ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | underground ⓘ |
| hasTransportMode | metro ⓘ |
| isInNeighbourhood |
Montparnasse
ⓘ
surface form:
Montparnasse area
|
| isPublicTransportStop | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
14th arrondissement of Paris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
France ⓘ Montparnasse ⓘ Paris ⓘ Île-de-France region ⓘ
surface form:
Île-de-France
|
| namedAfter |
Edgar Quinet
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Edgar Quinet (historian)
|
| namedForOccupation |
historian
ⓘ
intellectual ⓘ |
| networkType | urban rapid transit ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
RATP group
ⓘ
surface form:
RATP
|
| ownedBy |
RATP group
ⓘ
surface form:
RATP
|
| partOfNetwork |
Paris Metro
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris Métro
|
| servesCity | Paris ⓘ |
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: Edgar Quinet Description of subject: Edgar Quinet is a Paris Métro station in the Montparnasse area, named after the 19th-century French historian and intellectual Edgar Quinet.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edgar Quinet (historian)