Herriot
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Herriot is a French surname most notably associated with Édouard Herriot, a prominent 20th-century French Radical politician and longtime mayor of Lyon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Herriot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4671132 — 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: Herriot Context triple: [Édouard Herriot, familyName, Herriot]
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A.
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B.
Darwin’s Bulldog
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C.
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D.
Doctor Dolittle
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E.
Black Beauty
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- 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: Herriot Target entity description: Herriot is a French surname most notably associated with Édouard Herriot, a prominent 20th-century French Radical politician and longtime mayor of Lyon.
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A.
The Vet
The Vet was a multi-purpose stadium in Philadelphia that served for decades as the home of the NFL’s Eagles and MLB’s Phillies.
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B.
Darwin’s Bulldog
Darwin’s Bulldog was the nickname of biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, famed for his vigorous public defense and promotion of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in the 19th century.
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C.
The Kennel
The Kennel is the famously raucous home environment for Gonzaga University's men's basketball team, known for its intense crowd energy and strong home-court advantage.
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D.
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle is a fictional physician who can talk to animals, created by author Hugh Lofting and featured in a popular series of children's books and film adaptations.
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E.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty is a 2020 drama film adaptation of Anna Sewell’s classic novel, featuring Mackenzie Foy as a modernized version of the story’s young heroine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French politician
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French-language surname ⓘ human ⓘ mayor ⓘ surname ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| educatedAt | École normale supérieure (Paris) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Herriot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Édouard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Radical Party (France) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Radicalism ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Édouard Herriot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership of the French Radical Party in the 20th century
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long tenure as mayor of Lyon ⓘ role in French Third Republic politics ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Troyes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Mayor of Lyon
NERFINISHED
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of France ⓘ Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts of France ⓘ Minister of State of France ⓘ President of the Chamber of Deputies of France NERFINISHED ⓘ President of the Council of Ministers of France ⓘ President of the National Assembly of France NERFINISHED ⓘ President of the Radical Party (France) ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
| workLocation | Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Herriot Description of subject: Herriot is a French surname most notably associated with Édouard Herriot, a prominent 20th-century French Radical politician and longtime mayor of Lyon.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.