Étienne Arago
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Étienne Arago was a 19th-century French writer, journalist, and politician who notably served as director of the Paris Opera and briefly as mayor of Paris during the 1848 Revolution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Étienne Arago canonical | 4 |
| Jean Arago | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8865143 — 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: Étienne Arago Context triple: [François Arago, hasSibling, Étienne Arago]
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François Arago
François Arago was a 19th-century French astronomer, physicist, and politician known for his work on the wave theory of light, electromagnetism, and for promoting science and republican ideals in France.
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B.
Jacques Babinet
Jacques Babinet was a 19th-century French physicist and optician best known for his work on diffraction and for formulating Babinet's principle in wave optics.
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C.
Jérôme Lalande
Jérôme Lalande was an 18th-century French astronomer known for his work in celestial mechanics, star catalogues, and popularizing astronomy.
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D.
Camille Flammarion
Camille Flammarion was a French astronomer, author, and popularizer of science known for his influential works on astronomy and spiritualism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Léon Foucault
Léon Foucault was a 19th-century French physicist best known for demonstrating the Earth's rotation with the Foucault pendulum and for accurately measuring the speed of light.
- 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: Étienne Arago Target entity description: Étienne Arago was a 19th-century French writer, journalist, and politician who notably served as director of the Paris Opera and briefly as mayor of Paris during the 1848 Revolution.
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A.
François Arago
François Arago was a 19th-century French astronomer, physicist, and politician known for his work on the wave theory of light, electromagnetism, and for promoting science and republican ideals in France.
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B.
Jacques Babinet
Jacques Babinet was a 19th-century French physicist and optician best known for his work on diffraction and for formulating Babinet's principle in wave optics.
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C.
Jérôme Lalande
Jérôme Lalande was an 18th-century French astronomer known for his work in celestial mechanics, star catalogues, and popularizing astronomy.
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D.
Camille Flammarion
Camille Flammarion was a French astronomer, author, and popularizer of science known for his influential works on astronomy and spiritualism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Léon Foucault
Léon Foucault was a 19th-century French physicist best known for demonstrating the Earth's rotation with the Foucault pendulum and for accurately measuring the speed of light.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French politician
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French writer ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| employer | Paris Opera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Arago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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literature ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| genre |
journalism
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theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Étienne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| movement | French republicanism ⓘ |
| name | Étienne Arago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableRole |
director of the Paris Opera during the 19th century
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mayor of Paris during the 1848 Revolution ⓘ |
| notableWork | Les Aristocraties NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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playwright ⓘ politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participantIn | French Revolution of 1848 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | republican ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of the Paris Opera
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mayor of Paris ⓘ member of the Chamber of Deputies of France ⓘ member of the National Assembly of France ⓘ |
| relative | François Arago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
François Arago
NERFINISHED
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Jacques Arago NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Arago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
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: Étienne Arago Description of subject: Étienne Arago was a 19th-century French writer, journalist, and politician who notably served as director of the Paris Opera and briefly as mayor of Paris during the 1848 Revolution.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jean Arago