Claude de la Colombière
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Claude de la Colombière was a 17th-century French Jesuit priest and spiritual director, best known for supporting and spreading the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through his guidance of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Claude de la Colombière canonical | 3 |
| Claude La Colombière | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2667391 — 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: Claude de la Colombière Context triple: [Sacred Heart of Jesus, promotedBy, Claude de la Colombière]
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A.
Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his decorative ceiling and religious works, and for helping transition French art toward the Rococo style.
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B.
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau was a prominent 16th-century French Renaissance architect and engraver known for his influential designs and detailed architectural pattern books.
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C.
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle was a young French monarchist and resistance fighter best known for assassinating Admiral François Darlan in Algiers in 1942 during World War II.
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D.
Laurent de La Baume Le Blanc
Laurent de La Baume Le Blanc was a 17th-century French nobleman best known as the father of Louise de La Vallière, the famed mistress of King Louis XIV.
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E.
Charles-René de Bombelles
Charles-René de Bombelles was a French nobleman and military officer who became the third husband of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon Bonaparte’s former empress.
- 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: Claude de la Colombière Target entity description: Claude de la Colombière was a 17th-century French Jesuit priest and spiritual director, best known for supporting and spreading the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through his guidance of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque.
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A.
Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his decorative ceiling and religious works, and for helping transition French art toward the Rococo style.
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B.
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau was a prominent 16th-century French Renaissance architect and engraver known for his influential designs and detailed architectural pattern books.
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C.
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle was a young French monarchist and resistance fighter best known for assassinating Admiral François Darlan in Algiers in 1942 during World War II.
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D.
Laurent de La Baume Le Blanc
Laurent de La Baume Le Blanc was a 17th-century French nobleman best known as the father of Louise de La Vallière, the famed mistress of King Louis XIV.
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E.
Charles-René de Bombelles
Charles-René de Bombelles was a French nobleman and military officer who became the third husband of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon Bonaparte’s former empress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic priest
ⓘ
French person ⓘ Jesuit ⓘ human ⓘ saint ⓘ |
| canonizationStatus | canonized saint of the Catholic Church ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1641-02-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1682-02-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Jesuit college in Lyon
ⓘ
Jesuit novitiate in Avignon ⓘ |
| employer |
Duchess of York
ⓘ
English royal court ⓘ |
| familyName | de la Colombière ⓘ |
| feastDay | February 15 ⓘ |
| givenName | Claude ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | Margaret Mary Alacoque ⓘ |
| knownFor |
spreading the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
ⓘ
supporting the visions of Margaret Mary Alacoque ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
French
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| memberOf | Society of Jesus ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
promotion of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
ⓘ
trust in Divine Mercy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Retreat notes
ⓘ
sermons ⓘ spiritual diaries ⓘ writings on the Sacred Heart devotion ⓘ |
| occupation |
Catholic priest
ⓘ
spiritual director ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of France
ⓘ
Saint-Symphorien-d’Ozon ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Kingdom of France
ⓘ
Paray-le-Monial ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
preacher to the Duchess of York
ⓘ
rector of the Jesuit community at Paray-le-Monial ⓘ royal chaplain in England ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
|
| religiousOrder | Society of Jesus ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
Lyon ⓘ Paray-le-Monial ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spiritualDirectorOf | Margaret Mary Alacoque ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Claude de la Colombière Description of subject: Claude de la Colombière was a 17th-century French Jesuit priest and spiritual director, best known for supporting and spreading the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through his guidance of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Claude La Colombière