Marie Laveau
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Marie Laveau was a famed 19th-century New Orleans Voodoo priestess and folk healer who became a powerful cultural and spiritual figure in Louisiana folklore.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marie Laveau canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7250597 — 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: Marie Laveau Context triple: [St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, notableBurial, Marie Laveau]
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A.
Madame Duveyrier
Madame Duveyrier is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the hypocrisies and moral compromises of Second Empire middle-class society.
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B.
Cécile La Grenade
Cécile La Grenade is a Grenadian food scientist and politician who became the country’s first female Governor-General.
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C.
Annily Chatelain
Annily Chatelain is the daughter of French pop singer Alizée and is occasionally noted in French media due to her mother's fame.
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D.
Chevalier de Drucour
Chevalier de Drucour was a French naval officer and colonial governor best known for leading the defense of Louisbourg during the Seven Years' War.
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E.
Jeanne Duval
Jeanne Duval was a Haitian-born actress and dancer best known as the longtime muse and lover of French poet Charles Baudelaire, who immortalized her in many of his works.
- 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: Marie Laveau Target entity description: Marie Laveau was a famed 19th-century New Orleans Voodoo priestess and folk healer who became a powerful cultural and spiritual figure in Louisiana folklore.
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A.
Madame Duveyrier
Madame Duveyrier is a bourgeois Parisian woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," emblematic of the hypocrisies and moral compromises of Second Empire middle-class society.
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B.
Cécile La Grenade
Cécile La Grenade is a Grenadian food scientist and politician who became the country’s first female Governor-General.
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C.
Annily Chatelain
Annily Chatelain is the daughter of French pop singer Alizée and is occasionally noted in French media due to her mother's fame.
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D.
Chevalier de Drucour
Chevalier de Drucour was a French naval officer and colonial governor best known for leading the defense of Louisbourg during the Seven Years' War.
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E.
Jeanne Duval
Jeanne Duval was a Haitian-born actress and dancer best known as the longtime muse and lover of French poet Charles Baudelaire, who immortalized her in many of his works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Voodoo priestess
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cultural icon ⓘ folk healer ⓘ folk hero ⓘ human ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
Louisiana
NERFINISHED
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New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Congo Square
NERFINISHED
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French Quarter NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| culturalDepiction |
subject of films and television
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subject of novels ⓘ subject of songs ⓘ |
| culture | Louisiana Creole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Creole ⓘ |
| familyName | Laveau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
divination
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folk medicine ⓘ ritual magic ⓘ spiritual leadership ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Marie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLegend |
stories of helping the poor and marginalized
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stories of political influence in New Orleans ⓘ stories of powerful magical abilities ⓘ |
| heritage |
African descent
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European descent ⓘ Native American descent ⓘ |
| influenced |
Louisiana folklore
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popular culture depictions of Voodoo ⓘ |
| language |
English
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French ⓘ Louisiana Creole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | New Orleans Voodoo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Marie Laveau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
folk healing in New Orleans
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leading New Orleans Voodoo in the 19th century ⓘ reputation as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans ⓘ role in Louisiana folklore ⓘ |
| occupation |
Voodoo priestess
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folk healer ⓘ hairdresser ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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Voodoo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Voodoo Queen of New Orleans 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: Marie Laveau Description of subject: Marie Laveau was a famed 19th-century New Orleans Voodoo priestess and folk healer who became a powerful cultural and spiritual figure in Louisiana folklore.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1