Adam Lesage

E520658

alleged sorcerer historical figure person involved in criminal investigation

Adam Lesage was a 17th-century French occult practitioner and alleged sorcerer implicated in the Affair of the Poisons, a major scandal involving poisonings and black magic at the court of Louis XIV.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Adam Lesage canonical	1

Statements (36)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	alleged sorcerer ⓘ historical figure ⓘ person involved in criminal investigation ⓘ
accusedOf	black magic ⓘ involvement in poisonings ⓘ sorcery ⓘ
activeInCentury	17th century ⓘ
associatedWith	French royal court NERFINISHED ⓘ La Voisin NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis XIV NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithEvent	poisoning scandal at the court of Louis XIV ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	France ⓘ
ethnicGroup	French ⓘ
fieldOfWork	divination ⓘ occultism ⓘ ritual magic ⓘ
genreOfActivity	esoteric practices ⓘ rituals of black magic ⓘ
historicalContext	absolutist monarchy of Louis XIV ⓘ moral and religious anxieties in 17th-century France ⓘ
implicatedIn	plots involving poison and magic ⓘ
involvedIn	network of fortune-tellers and occultists in 17th-century France ⓘ
knownFor	connection to high-profile clients through the occult milieu of the Affair of the Poisons ⓘ reputation as a sorcerer ⓘ
legalStatus	suspect in criminal investigation ⓘ
notableFor	alleged sorcery ⓘ involvement in the Affair of the Poisons ⓘ practice of occult arts ⓘ
occupation	occult practitioner ⓘ sorcerer ⓘ
participatedIn	Affair of the Poisons NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	occult underworld surrounding the French royal court ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ
subjectOf	historical studies on the Affair of the Poisons ⓘ
timePeriod	reign of Louis XIV ⓘ

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: Adam Lesage
Description of subject: Adam Lesage was a 17th-century French occult practitioner and alleged sorcerer implicated in the Affair of the Poisons, a major scandal involving poisonings and black magic at the court of Louis XIV.

Referenced by (1)

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

Affair of the Poisons → significantPerson → Adam Lesage ⓘ