Michel-Antoine David
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Michel-Antoine David was an 18th-century French printer-publisher best known for publishing Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s monumental Encyclopédie.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michel-Antoine David canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T235718 — 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: Michel-Antoine David Context triple: [Encyclopédie, publisher, Michel-Antoine David]
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A.
Théodore Maunoir
Théodore Maunoir was a Swiss physician and humanitarian who was one of the key co-founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 19th century.
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B.
Charles Léon
Charles Léon was the illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French servant, known primarily for his connection to the emperor.
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C.
Émile Nouguier
Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Eiffel Tower.
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D.
Jules Guérin
Jules Guérin was an American muralist and illustrator known for his architectural murals and color-rich decorative work on major public buildings in the early 20th century.
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E.
Louis Marie Cordonnier
Louis Marie Cordonnier was a prominent French architect known for his influential Beaux-Arts and regionalist designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Michel-Antoine David Target entity description: Michel-Antoine David was an 18th-century French printer-publisher best known for publishing Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s monumental Encyclopédie.
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A.
Théodore Maunoir
Théodore Maunoir was a Swiss physician and humanitarian who was one of the key co-founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 19th century.
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B.
Charles Léon
Charles Léon was the illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte and a French servant, known primarily for his connection to the emperor.
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C.
Émile Nouguier
Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Eiffel Tower.
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D.
Jules Guérin
Jules Guérin was an American muralist and illustrator known for his architectural murals and color-rich decorative work on major public buildings in the early 20th century.
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E.
Louis Marie Cordonnier
Louis Marie Cordonnier was a prominent French architect known for his influential Beaux-Arts and regionalist designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century French person
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book printer ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Denis Diderot
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Jean d’Alembert ⓘ
surface form:
Jean le Rond d’Alembert
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| businessActivity |
printing of philosophical and scientific texts
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production of large-scale reference works ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| employer | David printing house ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
printing
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publishing ⓘ |
| genre |
encyclopedias
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reference works ⓘ |
| hasWork | volumes of the Encyclopédie ⓘ |
| knownFor |
printing the Encyclopédie
ⓘ
publishing the Encyclopédie ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| movement | French Enlightenment publishing ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Encyclopédie
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surface form:
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
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| occupation |
printer
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publisher ⓘ |
| partOf | French book trade ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| roleInProduction |
printer of the Encyclopédie
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publisher of the Encyclopédie ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
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: Michel-Antoine David Description of subject: Michel-Antoine David was an 18th-century French printer-publisher best known for publishing Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s monumental Encyclopédie.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.