Maurice Duplessis
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Maurice Duplessis was a long-serving and controversial premier of Quebec known for his conservative, clericalist rule during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maurice Duplessis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5039336 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Duplessis Context triple: [Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, hasGraveOf, Maurice Duplessis]
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A.
Jerry Duplessis
Jerry Duplessis is a Haitian-born music producer, composer, and bassist best known for his work with the Fugees and numerous hit records in hip-hop and R&B.
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B.
Jean Lesage
Jean Lesage was a Canadian politician and premier of Quebec whose reformist Liberal government in the 1960s spearheaded major social, economic, and political modernization in the province.
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C.
René Lévesque
René Lévesque was a prominent Quebec journalist-turned-politician who served as premier of Quebec and became a leading figure in the province’s sovereignty movement as founder of the Parti Québécois.
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D.
Henri Bourassa
Henri Bourassa was a prominent French-Canadian nationalist politician, journalist, and founder of the newspaper Le Devoir, known for his strong opposition to Canadian participation in British imperial wars.
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E.
Honoré Mercier
Honoré Mercier was a prominent 19th-century Canadian politician who served as Premier of Quebec and was known for defending provincial autonomy and French-Canadian interests.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Duplessis Target entity description: Maurice Duplessis was a long-serving and controversial premier of Quebec known for his conservative, clericalist rule during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Jerry Duplessis
Jerry Duplessis is a Haitian-born music producer, composer, and bassist best known for his work with the Fugees and numerous hit records in hip-hop and R&B.
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B.
Jean Lesage
Jean Lesage was a Canadian politician and premier of Quebec whose reformist Liberal government in the 1960s spearheaded major social, economic, and political modernization in the province.
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C.
René Lévesque
René Lévesque was a prominent Quebec journalist-turned-politician who served as premier of Quebec and became a leading figure in the province’s sovereignty movement as founder of the Parti Québécois.
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D.
Henri Bourassa
Henri Bourassa was a prominent French-Canadian nationalist politician, journalist, and founder of the newspaper Le Devoir, known for his strong opposition to Canadian participation in British imperial wars.
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E.
Honoré Mercier
Honoré Mercier was a prominent 19th-century Canadian politician who served as Premier of Quebec and was known for defending provincial autonomy and French-Canadian interests.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Premier of Quebec
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| constituencyRepresented | Trois-Rivières NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1890-04-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1959-09-07 ⓘ |
| describedBy | La Grande Noirceur (The Great Darkness) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Université Laval NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French Canadian ⓘ |
| familyName | Duplessis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Nérée Duplessis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Joseph-Adélard Maurice Duplessis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Maurice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | The Honourable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Quebec autonomism
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social conservatism ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Union Nationale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Flore Côté NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Grande Noirceur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Padlock Law against suspected communist organizations
NERFINISHED
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clericalist policies ⓘ conservative governance ⓘ long-serving premiership of Quebec ⓘ opposition to trade unions ⓘ strong alliance with the Catholic Church in Quebec ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Quebec intellectuals
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Quebec labour movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parliamentaryGroup | Union Nationale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Schefferville, Quebec, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Attorney General of Quebec
NERFINISHED
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Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec ⓘ Premier of Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| termEnd |
1939-10-25
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1959-09-07 ⓘ |
| termStart |
1936-08-26
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1944-08-30 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Subject: Maurice Duplessis Description of subject: Maurice Duplessis was a long-serving and controversial premier of Quebec known for his conservative, clericalist rule during the mid-20th century.
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