Sorel
E80920
French-language surname
book
human
philosopher
political theorist
royal mistress
social theorist
surname
Sorel is a French surname most notably associated with Georges Sorel, the influential early 20th-century philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sorel canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T644066 — 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: Sorel Context triple: [Georges Sorel, familyName, Sorel]
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A.
Sorel
Sorel is a footwear and outerwear brand best known for its durable, stylish winter boots and cold-weather gear.
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B.
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert, Quebec is a borough of Longueuil near Montreal best known as the home of the Canadian Space Agency’s headquarters and a hub for aerospace activities.
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C.
Rivière des Prairies
Rivière des Prairies is a channel of the Saint Lawrence River that separates the Island of Montreal from Île Jésus in southwestern Quebec, Canada.
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D.
North Bay
North Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area known for its scenic landscapes, wine country, and coastal communities north of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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E.
North Bay
North Bay is a small city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the shore of Lake Nipissing and known as a regional transportation and service hub.
- 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: Sorel Target entity description: Sorel is a French surname most notably associated with Georges Sorel, the influential early 20th-century philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism.
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A.
Sorel
Sorel is a footwear and outerwear brand best known for its durable, stylish winter boots and cold-weather gear.
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B.
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert, Quebec is a borough of Longueuil near Montreal best known as the home of the Canadian Space Agency’s headquarters and a hub for aerospace activities.
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C.
Rivière des Prairies
Rivière des Prairies is a channel of the Saint Lawrence River that separates the Island of Montreal from Île Jésus in southwestern Quebec, Canada.
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D.
North Bay
North Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area known for its scenic landscapes, wine country, and coastal communities north of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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E.
North Bay
North Bay is a small city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the shore of Lake Nipissing and known as a regional transportation and service hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French-language surname
ⓘ
book ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ political theorist ⓘ royal mistress ⓘ social theorist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| author | Georges Sorel ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sorel
self-linksurface differs
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Sorel self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
political philosophy
ⓘ
social philosophy ⓘ syndicalism ⓘ |
| givenName |
Agnès de La Borde
ⓘ
surface form:
Agnès
Georges ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Agnès Sorel
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Georges Sorel ⓘ Tracy Sorel ⓘ William Sorel ⓘ |
| influenced | revolutionary syndicalist movements ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Henri Bergson
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Karl Marx ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mistress of King Charles VII of France
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theory of revolutionary syndicalism ⓘ |
| notableWork | Reflections on Violence ⓘ |
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: Sorel Description of subject: Sorel is a French surname most notably associated with Georges Sorel, the influential early 20th-century philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Georges Sorel
subject surface form:
Agnès Sorel