Stéphane Hessel
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Stéphane Hessel was a German-born French diplomat, writer, and former Resistance fighter best known for his influential political activism and his pamphlet "Indignez-vous!" ("Time for Outrage!").
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stéphane Hessel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5071736 — 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: Stéphane Hessel Context triple: [French Resistance, notableMember, Stéphane Hessel]
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A.
Alfred Sauvy
Alfred Sauvy was a French demographer, sociologist, and economist best known for introducing the term "Third World" to describe countries not aligned with either the Western or Eastern blocs during the Cold War.
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B.
Pierre Brossolette
Pierre Brossolette was a prominent French journalist, socialist politician, and leading figure of the French Resistance during World War II who became a symbol of anti-Nazi resistance and sacrifice.
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C.
Lucien Goldmann
Lucien Goldmann was a Romanian-born French Marxist philosopher and sociologist of culture known for his work on genetic structuralism and the relationship between literature, ideology, and social class.
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D.
Jean-Paul Agon
Jean-Paul Agon is a French business executive best known for serving as the longtime CEO and later chairman of global cosmetics giant L'Oréal.
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E.
Raymond Aron
Raymond Aron was a 20th-century French philosopher, sociologist, and political commentator known for his liberal-conservative critique of totalitarianism and his influential analyses of industrial society and international relations.
- 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: Stéphane Hessel
Target entity description: Stéphane Hessel was a German-born French diplomat, writer, and former Resistance fighter best known for his influential political activism and his pamphlet "Indignez-vous!" ("Time for Outrage!").
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A.
Alfred Sauvy
Alfred Sauvy was a French demographer, sociologist, and economist best known for introducing the term "Third World" to describe countries not aligned with either the Western or Eastern blocs during the Cold War.
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B.
Pierre Brossolette
Pierre Brossolette was a prominent French journalist, socialist politician, and leading figure of the French Resistance during World War II who became a symbol of anti-Nazi resistance and sacrifice.
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C.
Lucien Goldmann
Lucien Goldmann was a Romanian-born French Marxist philosopher and sociologist of culture known for his work on genetic structuralism and the relationship between literature, ideology, and social class.
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D.
Jean-Paul Agon
Jean-Paul Agon is a French business executive best known for serving as the longtime CEO and later chairman of global cosmetics giant L'Oréal.
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E.
Raymond Aron
Raymond Aron was a 20th-century French philosopher, sociologist, and political commentator known for his liberal-conservative critique of totalitarianism and his influential analyses of industrial society and international relations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Resistance member
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ political activist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Companion of the Order of the Liberation
NERFINISHED
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Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour NERFINISHED ⓘ Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cimetière du Montparnasse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | German Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-10-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-02-27 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | Indignez-vous! pamphlet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Sciences Po
NERFINISHED
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École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Nations ⓘ |
| familyName | Hessel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Franz Hessel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | political essay ⓘ |
| givenName | Stéphane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
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German ⓘ |
| memberOf | French Resistance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Helen Hessel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
alter-globalization movement
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human rights movement ⓘ left-wing politics ⓘ |
| notableIdea | call for civic engagement and indignation against social injustice ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Indignez-vous!
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Time for Outrage! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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diplomat ⓘ political activist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
French Resistance movement
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| participatedIn | drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Berlin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDetention |
Buchenwald concentration camp
NERFINISHED
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Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Christiane Hessel-Chabry
NERFINISHED
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Vita Hessel 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: Stéphane Hessel
Description of subject: Stéphane Hessel was a German-born French diplomat, writer, and former Resistance fighter best known for his influential political activism and his pamphlet "Indignez-vous!" ("Time for Outrage!").
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.