André Maurois
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André Maurois was a prominent 20th-century French author and biographer known for his elegant novels, essays, and literary biographies of figures such as Victor Hugo and Byron.
All labels observed (1)
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| André Maurois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5580937 — 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: André Maurois Context triple: [Collège Stanislas de Paris, notableAlumnus, André Maurois]
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A.
Jean d’Ormesson
Jean d’Ormesson was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and member of the Académie Française known for his elegant, erudite prose and reflections on history and philosophy.
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B.
Maurice Renard
Maurice Renard was a French writer best known for his early 20th-century science fiction and fantastical novels that explored themes of the uncanny and the supernatural.
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C.
Hector Malot
Hector Malot was a 19th-century French novelist best known for his classic children's book "Sans Famille" ("Nobody's Boy").
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D.
Maxime Maufra
Maxime Maufra was a French landscape and marine painter associated with the Pont-Aven School and known for his post-Impressionist style and vivid use of color.
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E.
Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau was a French novelist, art critic, and journalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for works such as "The Torture Garden" and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
- 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: André Maurois Target entity description: André Maurois was a prominent 20th-century French author and biographer known for his elegant novels, essays, and literary biographies of figures such as Victor Hugo and Byron.
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A.
Jean d’Ormesson
Jean d’Ormesson was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and member of the Académie Française known for his elegant, erudite prose and reflections on history and philosophy.
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B.
Maurice Renard
Maurice Renard was a French writer best known for his early 20th-century science fiction and fantastical novels that explored themes of the uncanny and the supernatural.
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C.
Hector Malot
Hector Malot was a 19th-century French novelist best known for his classic children's book "Sans Famille" ("Nobody's Boy").
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D.
Maxime Maufra
Maxime Maufra was a French landscape and marine painter associated with the Pont-Aven School and known for his post-Impressionist style and vivid use of color.
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E.
Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau was a French novelist, art critic, and journalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for works such as "The Torture Garden" and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
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biographer ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| birthName | Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1885-07-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967-10-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfElection | 1938 ⓘ |
| familyName | Herzog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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essay ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Émile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | Académie française NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryService | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | 20th-century French literature ⓘ |
| name | André Maurois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ariel, ou la vie de Shelley
NERFINISHED
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Byron NERFINISHED ⓘ Climats NERFINISHED ⓘ Histoire de la France NERFINISHED ⓘ Histoire de l’Angleterre NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Discours du docteur O’Grady NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Silences du colonel Bramble NERFINISHED ⓘ Lyautey NERFINISHED ⓘ Lélia, ou la vie de George Sand NERFINISHED ⓘ Prométhée ou la vie de Balzac NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor Hugo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
biographer
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essayist ⓘ novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Elbeuf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Neuilly-sur-Seine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pseudonym | André Maurois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | French Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jeanne-Marie Wanda de Szymkiewicz
NERFINISHED
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Simone de Caillavet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteBiographyOf |
George Sand
NERFINISHED
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Honoré de Balzac NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Byron NERFINISHED ⓘ Percy Bysshe Shelley NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor Hugo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: André Maurois Description of subject: André Maurois was a prominent 20th-century French author and biographer known for his elegant novels, essays, and literary biographies of figures such as Victor Hugo and Byron.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.