Imprimerie royale
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Imprimerie royale was the official royal printing house of France, renowned for producing major scholarly and state-sponsored works during the Ancien Régime and early 19th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Imprimerie royale canonical | 1 |
| Royal printing house in Paris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5904872 — 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: Imprimerie royale Context triple: [Description de l’Égypte, publisher, Imprimerie royale]
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A.
Lemercier printing house
Lemercier printing house was a prominent 19th-century Parisian lithographic and printing firm known for producing high-quality art posters and prints.
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B.
Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique
The Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique is a Lyon museum dedicated to the history and evolution of printing, typography, and visual communication.
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C.
Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick
Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick was a 19th-century Geneva-based printing house known for producing Henri Dunant’s influential humanitarian work "A Memory of Solferino."
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D.
David printing house
David printing house was a prominent 18th-century Parisian printing establishment associated with the publisher Michel-Antoine David, known for producing influential works of the Enlightenment era.
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E.
Champenois printing company
Champenois printing company was a prominent late 19th-century Parisian lithography and publishing firm known for producing Art Nouveau posters, notably those by Alphonse Mucha.
- 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: Imprimerie royale Target entity description: Imprimerie royale was the official royal printing house of France, renowned for producing major scholarly and state-sponsored works during the Ancien Régime and early 19th century.
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A.
Lemercier printing house
Lemercier printing house was a prominent 19th-century Parisian lithographic and printing firm known for producing high-quality art posters and prints.
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B.
Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique
The Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique is a Lyon museum dedicated to the history and evolution of printing, typography, and visual communication.
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C.
Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick
Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick was a 19th-century Geneva-based printing house known for producing Henri Dunant’s influential humanitarian work "A Memory of Solferino."
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D.
David printing house
David printing house was a prominent 18th-century Parisian printing establishment associated with the publisher Michel-Antoine David, known for producing influential works of the Enlightenment era.
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E.
Champenois printing company
Champenois printing company was a prominent late 19th-century Parisian lithography and publishing firm known for producing Art Nouveau posters, notably those by Alphonse Mucha.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
royal printing house
ⓘ
state printer ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| employer | royal printers of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Ancien Régime
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early 19th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book production
ⓘ
printing ⓘ typography ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Cardinal Richelieu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Louis XIII NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
engraving workshop
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printing workshop ⓘ proofreading and editorial office ⓘ type foundry ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| inception | 1640 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Arabic
ⓘ
Armenian ⓘ Coptic ⓘ Ethiopic ⓘ French ⓘ Greek ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Latin ⓘ Syriac ⓘ |
| location | Paris ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
diplomatic and legal documents
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official publications of the French monarchy ⓘ religious and liturgical books ⓘ scholarly works in the humanities ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high-quality typography
ⓘ
production of learned editions ⓘ state-sponsored printing under the Ancien Régime ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Imprimerie royale Greek typefaces
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royal oriental typefaces ⓘ scholarly editions of classical texts ⓘ state-sponsored ceremonial publications ⓘ |
| operatedInPoliticalEntity |
French First Empire
NERFINISHED
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French Restoration NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | French Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patron |
Louis XIV
NERFINISHED
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Louis XV NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis XVI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Imprimerie impériale
NERFINISHED
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Imprimerie nationale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
French royal administration
ⓘ
Maison du Roi 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: Imprimerie royale Description of subject: Imprimerie royale was the official royal printing house of France, renowned for producing major scholarly and state-sponsored works during the Ancien Régime and early 19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Robert Estienne
this entity surface form:
Royal printing house in Paris