Jean-Sylvain Bailly
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly was a French astronomer and revolutionary statesman who became the first mayor of Paris and a prominent leader during the early stages of the French Revolution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean-Sylvain Bailly canonical | 9 |
| Jean Sylvain Bailly | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T606313 — 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: Jean-Sylvain Bailly Context triple: [The Tennis Court Oath (unfinished), depictsFigure, Jean-Sylvain Bailly]
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A.
Bertrand Barère
Bertrand Barère was a prominent French revolutionary politician, journalist, and member of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution.
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B.
Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu
Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu was a French jurist and statesman who played a key role in shaping early 19th-century French civil law.
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C.
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès was a French clergyman, political theorist, and revolutionary leader whose ideas and actions significantly shaped the course of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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D.
Georges Danton
Georges Danton was a leading French revolutionary and powerful orator who helped drive the overthrow of the monarchy and the early phase of the First French Republic before being executed during the Reign of Terror.
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E.
Mirabeau
Mirabeau is the given name of Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas and a prominent 19th-century American political figure.
- 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: Jean-Sylvain Bailly Target entity description: Jean-Sylvain Bailly was a French astronomer and revolutionary statesman who became the first mayor of Paris and a prominent leader during the early stages of the French Revolution.
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A.
Bertrand Barère
Bertrand Barère was a prominent French revolutionary politician, journalist, and member of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution.
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B.
Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu
Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu was a French jurist and statesman who played a key role in shaping early 19th-century French civil law.
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C.
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès was a French clergyman, political theorist, and revolutionary leader whose ideas and actions significantly shaped the course of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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D.
Georges Danton
Georges Danton was a leading French revolutionary and powerful orator who helped drive the overthrow of the monarchy and the early phase of the First French Republic before being executed during the Reign of Terror.
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E.
Mirabeau
Mirabeau is the given name of Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas and a prominent 19th-century American political figure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Jean-Sylvain Bailly Description of subject: Jean-Sylvain Bailly was a French astronomer and revolutionary statesman who became the first mayor of Paris and a prominent leader during the early stages of the French Revolution.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jean Sylvain Bailly
this entity surface form:
Jean Sylvain Bailly
subject surface form:
National Assembly (French Revolution)