Jean-Dominique Bauby
E443913
Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist and editor of Elle who, after being left almost completely paralyzed by locked-in syndrome, authored the memoir "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by blinking his left eye.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jean-Dominique Bauby canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4482613 — 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: Jean-Dominique Bauby Context triple: [Julian Schnabel, hasWorkSubject, Jean-Dominique Bauby]
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A.
Brian Weiss
Brian Weiss is an American psychiatrist and author best known for popularizing past-life regression therapy through his bestselling books and public lectures.
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B.
Phineas Gage
Phineas Gage was a 19th-century American railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury from an iron tamping rod, becoming a famous case study in neuroscience and the relationship between brain function and personality.
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C.
Kevin Harlan
Kevin Harlan is an American sportscaster best known for his energetic play-by-play commentary on NBA and NFL broadcasts.
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D.
Mark T. Williams
Mark T. Williams is the son of renowned American composer and conductor John Williams.
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E.
Benoit Jacob
Benoit Jacob is an automotive designer best known for leading the design of BMW’s innovative electric i-series models, including the BMW i3.
- 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: Jean-Dominique Bauby Target entity description: Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist and editor of Elle who, after being left almost completely paralyzed by locked-in syndrome, authored the memoir "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by blinking his left eye.
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A.
Brian Weiss
Brian Weiss is an American psychiatrist and author best known for popularizing past-life regression therapy through his bestselling books and public lectures.
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B.
Phineas Gage
Phineas Gage was a 19th-century American railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury from an iron tamping rod, becoming a famous case study in neuroscience and the relationship between brain function and personality.
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C.
Kevin Harlan
Kevin Harlan is an American sportscaster best known for his energetic play-by-play commentary on NBA and NFL broadcasts.
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D.
Mark T. Williams
Mark T. Williams is the son of renowned American composer and conductor John Williams.
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E.
Benoit Jacob
Benoit Jacob is an automotive designer best known for leading the design of BMW’s innovative electric i-series models, including the BMW i3.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
editor
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ memoirist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| causeOfDisability | stroke ⓘ |
| communicationMethod | spelling code based on letter frequency in French ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-04-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1997-03-09 ⓘ |
| employer | Elle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeUsedForCommunication | left eye ⓘ |
| familyName | Bauby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Jean-Dominique Bauby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean-Dominique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Céleste Bauby
NERFINISHED
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Théophile Bauby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| medicalCondition | locked-in syndrome ⓘ |
| methodOfWriting | blinking his left eye ⓘ |
| movement | French literature ⓘ |
| notableEvent | massive stroke in 1995 leading to locked-in syndrome ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing a memoir while almost completely paralyzed ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Garches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor-in-chief of Elle ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfNotableWork | 1997 ⓘ |
| publisherOfNotableWork | Éditions Robert Laffont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workSubject | his experience with locked-in syndrome ⓘ |
| workTranslatedInto |
English
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multiple languages ⓘ |
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: Jean-Dominique Bauby Description of subject: Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist and editor of Elle who, after being left almost completely paralyzed by locked-in syndrome, authored the memoir "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by blinking his left eye.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.