Marc Lépine
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Marc Lépine was a Canadian mass murderer who killed 14 women in the 1989 antifeminist attack at Montreal’s École Polytechnique.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marc Lépine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7207539 — 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: Marc Lépine Context triple: [École Polytechnique massacre, perpetrator, Marc Lépine]
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A.
Stanislas Lépine
Stanislas Lépine was a 19th-century French painter known for his quiet, atmospheric urban and river landscapes of Paris, often associated with the Impressionist movement.
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B.
Christian Lépine
Christian Lépine is a Canadian Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the Archbishop of Montreal.
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C.
Guy Gendron
Guy Gendron was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played in the NHL during the 1950s and 1960s, notably with teams such as the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins.
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D.
Camille Guaty
Camille Guaty is an American actress known for her roles in television series such as "Prison Break," "Las Vegas," and "Scorpion," as well as various film and TV movie appearances.
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E.
Missak Manouchian
Missak Manouchian was an Armenian-born poet, communist, and leader of a group of immigrant fighters in the French Resistance who became a symbol of anti-Nazi struggle after his execution in 1944.
- 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: Marc Lépine Target entity description: Marc Lépine was a Canadian mass murderer who killed 14 women in the 1989 antifeminist attack at Montreal’s École Polytechnique.
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A.
Stanislas Lépine
Stanislas Lépine was a 19th-century French painter known for his quiet, atmospheric urban and river landscapes of Paris, often associated with the Impressionist movement.
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B.
Christian Lépine
Christian Lépine is a Canadian Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the Archbishop of Montreal.
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C.
Guy Gendron
Guy Gendron was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played in the NHL during the 1950s and 1960s, notably with teams such as the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins.
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D.
Camille Guaty
Camille Guaty is an American actress known for her roles in television series such as "Prison Break," "Las Vegas," and "Scorpion," as well as various film and TV movie appearances.
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E.
Missak Manouchian
Missak Manouchian was an Armenian-born poet, communist, and leader of a group of immigrant fighters in the French Resistance who became a symbol of anti-Nazi struggle after his execution in 1944.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian person
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human ⓘ mass murderer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Marc Lépine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1964-10-26 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| crimeClassification |
femicide
ⓘ
mass shooting ⓘ school shooting ⓘ |
| dateOfCrime | 1989-12-06 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1989-12-06 ⓘ |
| education | École Polytechnique applicant ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Algerian
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French Canadian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Rachid Liass Gharbi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | antifeminism ⓘ |
| laterReligion |
Roman Catholicism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
none ⓘ |
| legalStatusAtDeath | died before trial ⓘ |
| methodOfSuicide | gunshot ⓘ |
| mother | Monique Lépine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motive | hatred of feminists ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1989 Montreal massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | École Polytechnique massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfVictimsInjured | 13 ⓘ |
| numberOfVictimsKilled | 14 ⓘ |
| perpetratorOf | École Polytechnique massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Canada
NERFINISHED
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Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfCrime |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ École Polytechnique de Montréal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Canada
NERFINISHED
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Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionInChildhood | Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Nadia Gharbi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetedGroup | women ⓘ |
| usedWeapon |
Ruger Mini-14 rifle
NERFINISHED
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hunting knife ⓘ |
| victimsGender | female ⓘ |
| wrote | suicide note ⓘ |
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: Marc Lépine Description of subject: Marc Lépine was a Canadian mass murderer who killed 14 women in the 1989 antifeminist attack at Montreal’s École Polytechnique.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.