François de Corday (father)
E374505
François de Corday was a French provincial nobleman and the father of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| François de Corday (father) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3628310 — 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: François de Corday (father) Context triple: [Charlotte Corday, hasRelative, François de Corday (father)]
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A.
Marcelle Corday
Marcelle Corday was a Belgian-born American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, known for her supporting roles in numerous Hollywood productions.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai was a French novelist, journalist, and revolutionary politician best known for his role in the French Revolution as a leading Girondin and vocal opponent of Robespierre.
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C.
Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Corday was a French Revolutionary figure best known for assassinating the radical leader Jean-Paul Marat in 1793, an act immortalized in Jacques-Louis David’s painting "The Death of Marat."
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D.
Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland
Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland was a French actress who became the wife of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and the mother of several of his children.
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E.
Georges Couthon
Georges Couthon was a prominent French revolutionary and close ally of Robespierre who played a leading role in the radical phase of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
- 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: François de Corday (father) Target entity description: François de Corday was a French provincial nobleman and the father of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution.
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A.
Marcelle Corday
Marcelle Corday was a Belgian-born American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, known for her supporting roles in numerous Hollywood productions.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai was a French novelist, journalist, and revolutionary politician best known for his role in the French Revolution as a leading Girondin and vocal opponent of Robespierre.
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C.
Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Corday was a French Revolutionary figure best known for assassinating the radical leader Jean-Paul Marat in 1793, an act immortalized in Jacques-Louis David’s painting "The Death of Marat."
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D.
Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland
Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland was a French actress who became the wife of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and the mother of several of his children.
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E.
Georges Couthon
Georges Couthon was a prominent French revolutionary and close ally of Robespierre who played a leading role in the radical phase of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French nobleman
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human ⓘ |
| child | Charlotte Corday ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName |
Charlotte Corday
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surface form:
de Corday
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| nobleTitle | provincial nobility ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Corday family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Charlotte Corday ⓘ |
| placeOfCitizenship | Normandy ⓘ |
| relative | Charlotte Corday ⓘ |
| residence | French provinces ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Ancien Régime
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surface form:
Ancien Régime France
French Revolution era ⓘ |
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: François de Corday (father) Description of subject: François de Corday was a French provincial nobleman and the father of Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.