Charles Percier
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Charles Percier was a prominent French architect and designer, best known for co-developing the Empire style that shaped Napoleonic-era architecture and interior decoration.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Percier canonical | 4 |
| Percier | 1 |
| Percier and Fontaine (as a design partnership) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3293492 — 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: Charles Percier Context triple: [Auguste de Montferrand, studiedUnder, Charles Percier]
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A.
Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert was an 18th-century French painter and draughtsman renowned for his romantic landscapes and imaginative architectural ruins, earning him the nickname "Robert des Ruines."
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B.
François Blondel
François Blondel was a 17th-century French architect, engineer, and theoretician known for directing the royal academy of architecture and helping formalize classical architectural principles in France.
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C.
Jacques-François Blondel
Jacques-François Blondel was an influential 18th-century French architect and theoretician known for his architectural treatises and for shaping academic architectural education in France.
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D.
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux was an influential 18th-century French architect and urban planner whose visionary, often utopian designs made him a key pioneer of neoclassical architecture.
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E.
Étienne-Maurice Falconet
Étienne-Maurice Falconet was an 18th-century French sculptor best known for creating the famous equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman, in Saint Petersburg.
- 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: Charles Percier Target entity description: Charles Percier was a prominent French architect and designer, best known for co-developing the Empire style that shaped Napoleonic-era architecture and interior decoration.
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A.
Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert was an 18th-century French painter and draughtsman renowned for his romantic landscapes and imaginative architectural ruins, earning him the nickname "Robert des Ruines."
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B.
François Blondel
François Blondel was a 17th-century French architect, engineer, and theoretician known for directing the royal academy of architecture and helping formalize classical architectural principles in France.
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C.
Jacques-François Blondel
Jacques-François Blondel was an influential 18th-century French architect and theoretician known for his architectural treatises and for shaping academic architectural education in France.
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D.
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux was an influential 18th-century French architect and urban planner whose visionary, often utopian designs made him a key pioneer of neoclassical architecture.
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E.
Étienne-Maurice Falconet
Étienne-Maurice Falconet was an 18th-century French sculptor best known for creating the famous equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman, in Saint Petersburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ interior designer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Prix de Rome
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surface form:
Prix de Rome for architecture
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| collaboratedWith | Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1764-08-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1838-09-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Académie royale d’architecture
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Académie royale d’architecture ⓘ
surface form:
École royale d’architecture
|
| employer |
Napoleon I
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surface form:
Napoleon I of France
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| era | Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| familyName |
Charles Percier
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Percier
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| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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furniture design ⓘ interior decoration ⓘ |
| fullName | Charles Percier self-link ⓘ |
| genre |
architectural design
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interior design ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| influenced |
19th-century European interior design
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Empire style furniture makers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| movement |
Empire style
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Neoclassicism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Napoleonic-era architecture and interior decoration
ⓘ
co-developing the Empire style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
ⓘ
surface form:
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (with Fontaine)
Château de Fontainebleau ⓘ
surface form:
Château de Fontainebleau interiors
Château de Saint-Cloud, France ⓘ
surface form:
Château de Saint-Cloud interiors
Recueil de décorations intérieures (publication) ⓘ Rue de Rivoli urban scheme in Paris ⓘ Théâtre-Français (Comédie-Française) alterations ⓘ designs for Malmaison ⓘ interior designs for the Louvre ⓘ interior designs for the Tuileries Palace ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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decorator ⓘ draughtsman ⓘ interior designer ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| partner | Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| positionHeld | architect to Napoleon I ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| studentOf | Antoine-François Peyre ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Charles Percier Description of subject: Charles Percier was a prominent French architect and designer, best known for co-developing the Empire style that shaped Napoleonic-era architecture and interior decoration.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Percier
this entity surface form:
Percier and Fontaine (as a design partnership)