Élisabeth de MacMahon
E402561
Élisabeth de MacMahon was a 19th-century French aristocrat who served as France’s de facto first lady during the presidency of her husband, Marshal Patrice de MacMahon.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Élisabeth de MacMahon canonical | 2 |
| Élisabeth de MacMahon, duchesse de Magenta | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3952628 — 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: Élisabeth de MacMahon Context triple: [Patrice de MacMahon, spouse, Élisabeth de MacMahon]
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A.
Camille Chautemps
Camille Chautemps was a French Radical politician who served several times as Prime Minister of France during the turbulent interwar Third Republic.
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B.
Clémenceau de Brimont
Clémenceau de Brimont was a French artist and educator known for co-founding the influential Parisian art school Académie de la Grande Chaumière, which became a key center for modern art training in the early 20th century.
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C.
Péron
Péron is a commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near the Swiss border in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
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D.
Yvonne de Gaulle
Yvonne de Gaulle was the reserved and devoutly Catholic wife of French leader Charles de Gaulle, known for her discretion, charitable work, and traditional values.
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E.
Aurore Giscard d’Estaing
Aurore Giscard d’Estaing is a French illustrator and member of the prominent Giscard d’Estaing family, known for her work in children’s books and advertising.
- 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: Élisabeth de MacMahon Target entity description: Élisabeth de MacMahon was a 19th-century French aristocrat who served as France’s de facto first lady during the presidency of her husband, Marshal Patrice de MacMahon.
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A.
Camille Chautemps
Camille Chautemps was a French Radical politician who served several times as Prime Minister of France during the turbulent interwar Third Republic.
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B.
Clémenceau de Brimont
Clémenceau de Brimont was a French artist and educator known for co-founding the influential Parisian art school Académie de la Grande Chaumière, which became a key center for modern art training in the early 20th century.
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C.
Péron
Péron is a commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near the Swiss border in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
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D.
Yvonne de Gaulle
Yvonne de Gaulle was the reserved and devoutly Catholic wife of French leader Charles de Gaulle, known for her discretion, charitable work, and traditional values.
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E.
Aurore Giscard d’Estaing
Aurore Giscard d’Estaing is a French illustrator and member of the prominent Giscard d’Estaing family, known for her work in children’s books and advertising.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French aristocrat
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human ⓘ spouse of a head of state ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French Third Republic
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French presidency of Patrice de MacMahon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| familyName |
MacMahon
ⓘ
surface form:
de MacMahon
|
| givenName |
Elisabeth
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surface form:
Élisabeth
|
| languageUsed | French ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Élisabeth de MacMahon self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in French high society in the 19th century
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serving as de facto First Lady of France during the presidency of Patrice de MacMahon ⓘ |
| positionHeld | de facto First Lady of France ⓘ |
| residence |
France
ⓘ
Élysée Palace ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialRole | hostess of official functions at the Élysée Palace ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
French political and social life
ⓘ
aristocracy ⓘ |
| spouse | Patrice de MacMahon ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
Maréchal de France
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surface form:
Marshal of France
President of the French Republic ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Élisabeth de MacMahon Description of subject: Élisabeth de MacMahon was a 19th-century French aristocrat who served as France’s de facto first lady during the presidency of her husband, Marshal Patrice de MacMahon.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Élisabeth de MacMahon, duchesse de Magenta