Chapelle Expiatoire

E478733

memorial chapel monument neoclassical building

Chapelle Expiatoire is a neoclassical memorial chapel in Paris built to honor King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette on the former site of their burial.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Chapelle expiatoire	2
Chapelle Expiatoire canonical	1
Chapelle Expiatoire memorial	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4903090 — 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: Chapelle Expiatoire
Context triple: [Madeleine Cemetery, Paris, successorSite, Chapelle Expiatoire]

A. Chapel of Saint-Louis
The Chapel of Saint-Louis is a historic Gothic royal chapel located within the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France.
B. Chapelle du Calvaire
Chapelle du Calvaire is a side chapel within Paris’s Église Saint-Roch, notable for its devotional focus on the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ.
C. Église du Val-de-Grâce
Église du Val-de-Grâce is a 17th-century Baroque church in Paris, originally built as part of a royal abbey founded by Anne of Austria and noted for its grand dome and rich interior decoration.
D. Église du Dôme
Église du Dôme is a prominent Baroque church in Paris best known for its gilded dome and as the burial site of Napoleon Bonaparte.
E. Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut is a renowned modernist Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France, designed by architect Le Corbusier and celebrated for its sculptural form and innovative use of light.
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: Chapelle Expiatoire
Target entity description: Chapelle Expiatoire is a neoclassical memorial chapel in Paris built to honor King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette on the former site of their burial.

A. Chapel of Saint-Louis
The Chapel of Saint-Louis is a historic Gothic royal chapel located within the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France.
B. Chapelle du Calvaire
Chapelle du Calvaire is a side chapel within Paris’s Église Saint-Roch, notable for its devotional focus on the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ.
C. Église du Val-de-Grâce
Église du Val-de-Grâce is a 17th-century Baroque church in Paris, originally built as part of a royal abbey founded by Anne of Austria and noted for its grand dome and rich interior decoration.
D. Église du Dôme
Église du Dôme is a prominent Baroque church in Paris best known for its gilded dome and as the burial site of Napoleon Bonaparte.
E. Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut is a renowned modernist Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France, designed by architect Le Corbusier and celebrated for its sculptural form and innovative use of light.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	memorial chapel ⓘ monument ⓘ neoclassical building ⓘ
architect	Charles Percier NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine NERFINISHED ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Neoclassical architecture ⓘ
builtFor	commemoration of Louis XVI ⓘ commemoration of Marie Antoinette ⓘ
builtOnFormerSiteOf	Cimetière de la Madeleine NERFINISHED ⓘ former burial place of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette ⓘ
commissionedBy	Louis XVIII NERFINISHED ⓘ
constructionStart	1815 ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
dedicatedTo	memory of victims of the French Revolution buried at Cimetière de la Madeleine ⓘ
function	memorial ⓘ place of Catholic worship ⓘ
hasComponent	chapel ⓘ crypt ⓘ garden cemetery ⓘ sculpted cenotaphs of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette ⓘ
hasCourtyard	true ⓘ
hasDome	true ⓘ
hasGarden	true ⓘ
hasHeritageDesignation	monument historique ⓘ
hasSculpture	recumbent figure of Louis XVI NERFINISHED ⓘ recumbent figure of Marie Antoinette ⓘ
heritageDesignationCountry	France ⓘ
heritageDesignationDate	1914 ⓘ
honours	Louis XVI NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Antoinette NERFINISHED ⓘ
inaugurationDate	1826 ⓘ
locatedIn	8th arrondissement of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ
location	Paris ⓘ
managedBy	Centre des monuments nationaux NERFINISHED ⓘ
material	stone ⓘ
near	Boulevard Haussmann NERFINISHED ⓘ Gare Saint-Lazare NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	austere neoclassical interior ⓘ commemoration of royal victims of the French Revolution ⓘ
openToPublic	true ⓘ
ownedBy	French state NERFINISHED ⓘ
period	Bourbon Restoration NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	Île-de-France region ⓘ surface form: Île-de-France
religiousAffiliation	Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Roman Catholic Church
streetAddress	29, rue Pasquier ⓘ
theme	expiation for the execution of the king and queen ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Madeleine Cemetery, Paris → successorSite → Chapelle Expiatoire ⓘ

Madeleine Cemetery, Paris → commemoratedBy → Chapelle Expiatoire ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chapelle Expiatoire memorial

Cimetière de la Madeleine → replacedBy → Chapelle Expiatoire ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chapelle expiatoire

Cimetière de la Madeleine → successorSite → Chapelle Expiatoire ⓘ