Claude Perrault
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Claude Perrault was a 17th-century French physician, scientist, and architect best known for designing the classical east façade of the Louvre in Paris.
All labels observed (1)
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| Claude Perrault canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T347010 — 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: Claude Perrault Context triple: [Louvre Museum, notableArchitect, Claude Perrault]
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A.
Pierre Lescot
Pierre Lescot was a 16th-century French Renaissance architect best known for designing major portions of the Louvre Palace in Paris.
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B.
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée was an 18th-century French architect and theorist renowned for his visionary, monumental designs that profoundly influenced the development of Neoclassical architecture.
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C.
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and theologian known for foundational work in probability theory, projective geometry, fluid mechanics, and for inventing one of the first mechanical calculators.
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D.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was a 19th-century French architect and theorist renowned for his influential restorations of medieval buildings such as Notre-Dame de Paris and for shaping the Gothic Revival movement.
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E.
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens was a 17th-century Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for his work on the wave theory of light, the invention of the pendulum clock, and the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan.
- 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: Claude Perrault Target entity description: Claude Perrault was a 17th-century French physician, scientist, and architect best known for designing the classical east façade of the Louvre in Paris.
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A.
Pierre Lescot
Pierre Lescot was a 16th-century French Renaissance architect best known for designing major portions of the Louvre Palace in Paris.
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B.
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée was an 18th-century French architect and theorist renowned for his visionary, monumental designs that profoundly influenced the development of Neoclassical architecture.
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C.
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and theologian known for foundational work in probability theory, projective geometry, fluid mechanics, and for inventing one of the first mechanical calculators.
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D.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was a 19th-century French architect and theorist renowned for his influential restorations of medieval buildings such as Notre-Dame de Paris and for shaping the Gothic Revival movement.
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E.
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens was a 17th-century Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for his work on the wave theory of light, the invention of the pendulum clock, and the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
17th-century architect
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French architect ⓘ architect ⓘ human ⓘ physician ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| designed |
Colonnade of the Louvre
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surface form:
Louvre Colonnade
Paris Observatory ⓘ
surface form:
Observatoire de Paris (architectural contributions)
east façade of the Louvre ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Sorbonne University
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surface form:
University of Paris
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| employer |
Académie des Sciences
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surface form:
Académie royale des sciences
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| era | 17th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Perrault ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anatomy
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architecture ⓘ medicine ⓘ natural history ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| genre | classical architecture ⓘ |
| givenName | Claude ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
designing the classical east façade of the Louvre in Paris
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Colonnade of the Louvre ⓘ
surface form:
the Louvre Colonnade
writings on architectural theory ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie des Sciences
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surface form:
Académie royale des sciences
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| movement |
French Baroque art
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surface form:
French classicism
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| nationality | French ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableIdea | theory of architectural proportion based on rational measures ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Colonnade of the Louvre
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Ordonnance des cinq espèces de colonnes selon la méthode des Anciens ⓘ Louvre Palace ⓘ
surface form:
east façade of the Louvre
translation of Vitruvius ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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physician ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| sibling |
Perrault
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surface form:
Charles Perrault
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| style | classical architecture ⓘ |
| workedOn |
anatomical dissections of animals
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experiments in physics ⓘ |
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: Claude Perrault Description of subject: Claude Perrault was a 17th-century French physician, scientist, and architect best known for designing the classical east façade of the Louvre in Paris.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ordonnance des cinq espèces de colonnes selon la méthode des Anciens
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contributor
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Claude Perrault
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Ordonnance des cinq espèces de colonnes selon la méthode des Anciens
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hasAuthorRole
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Claude Perrault
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