Louis, Dauphin of France
E575916
Louis, Dauphin of France was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XV who, though never reigning himself, was the father of three French kings including Louis XVI.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Louis, Dauphin of France canonical | 9 |
| Louis Ferdinand, Dauphin of France | 3 |
| Louis Ferdinand de France | 1 |
| Louis de France | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5967296 — 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: Louis, Dauphin of France Context triple: [Louis, Dauphin of France (son of Louis XV), alsoKnownAs, Louis, Dauphin of France]
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A.
Francis, Dauphin of France
Francis, Dauphin of France was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Francis I of France, whose early death prevented him from ascending the throne.
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B.
Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France
Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette who died in childhood before he could ascend the French throne.
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C.
Louis de France
Louis de France, known as the Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV of France who predeceased his father and never ascended the throne.
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D.
Charles Orland, Dauphin of France
Charles Orland, Dauphin of France, was the short-lived heir apparent to the French throne in the late 15th century, whose early death left his father Charles VIII without a surviving successor.
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E.
Louis François of France
Louis François of France was a French prince of the House of Bourbon, a son of King Louis XIV and Queen Maria Theresa of Spain who died in infancy.
- 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: Louis, Dauphin of France Target entity description: Louis, Dauphin of France was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XV who, though never reigning himself, was the father of three French kings including Louis XVI.
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A.
Francis, Dauphin of France
Francis, Dauphin of France was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Francis I of France, whose early death prevented him from ascending the throne.
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B.
Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France
Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette who died in childhood before he could ascend the French throne.
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C.
Louis de France
Louis de France, known as the Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV of France who predeceased his father and never ascended the throne.
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D.
Charles Orland, Dauphin of France
Charles Orland, Dauphin of France, was the short-lived heir apparent to the French throne in the late 15th century, whose early death left his father Charles VIII without a surviving successor.
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E.
Louis François of France
Louis François of France was a French prince of the House of Bourbon, a son of King Louis XIV and Queen Maria Theresa of Spain who died in infancy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French prince
ⓘ
heir apparent ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Bourbon dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1729-09-04 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Palace of Versailles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cathedral of Saint-Étienne de Sens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| child |
Charles X of France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Louis Joseph, Duke of Burgundy NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis XVI of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis XVIII of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Clotilde of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Zéphyrine of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Xavier, Duke of Aquitaine NERFINISHED ⓘ Élisabeth of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1765-12-20 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Château de Fontainebleau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Ancien Régime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Louis XV of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Louis de France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heirOf | Louis XV of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| mother | Marie Leszczyńska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neverReigned | true ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Bourbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFact |
eldest surviving son of Louis XV of France
ⓘ
father of three kings of France: Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles X ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Dauphin of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sibling |
Henriette of France
NERFINISHED
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Louis, Duke of Burgundy (elder brother) NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Adélaïde of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Louise Élisabeth of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippe, Duke of Anjou NERFINISHED ⓘ Sophie of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Thérèse of France NERFINISHED ⓘ Victoire of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Maria Josepha of Saxony
NERFINISHED
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Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | His Royal Highness ⓘ |
| successorAsDauphin | Louis Auguste (future Louis XVI) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Dauphin of France
NERFINISHED
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Duke of Burgundy 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: Louis, Dauphin of France Description of subject: Louis, Dauphin of France was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XV who, though never reigning himself, was the father of three French kings including Louis XVI.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Louis Ferdinand de France
this entity surface form:
Louis de France
this entity surface form:
Louis Ferdinand, Dauphin of France
this entity surface form:
Louis Ferdinand, Dauphin of France
this entity surface form:
Louis Ferdinand, Dauphin of France