Antoine de Ville

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Antoine de Ville was a 15th-century French military engineer and climber best known for leading the pioneering 1492 ascent of Mont Aiguille, one of the earliest documented technical mountaineering feats.

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Antoine de Ville canonical 1

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French military engineer
human
mountaineer
rock climber
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of France NERFINISHED
dateOfActivity 15th century
employer Charles VIII of France NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork early alpinism
military engineering
siege warfare
floruit late 15th century
hasAchievement constructed temporary structures on the summit of Mont Aiguille
organized a multi-day stay on the summit of Mont Aiguille
influenced later traditions of mountaineering in the Alps
knownFor early use of siege and climbing techniques on a mountain face
one of the earliest documented technical mountaineering ascents
ledExpeditionTo Mont Aiguille NERFINISHED
militaryRank captain
nationality French
notableFor leading the 1492 ascent of Mont Aiguille
occupation climber
military engineer
soldier
partOf history of French military engineering
history of mountaineering
performed first recorded ascent of Mont Aiguille
placeOfActivity Dauphiné NERFINISHED
Kingdom of France NERFINISHED
usedTechnique iron spikes
ladders
ropes

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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.
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Subject: Antoine de Ville
Description of subject: Antoine de Ville was a 15th-century French military engineer and climber best known for leading the pioneering 1492 ascent of Mont Aiguille, one of the earliest documented technical mountaineering feats.

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Mont Aiguille firstAscentBy Antoine de Ville