Ernest Beaux
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Ernest Beaux was a renowned early 20th-century French-Russian perfumer best known for creating the iconic fragrance Chanel No. 5.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ernest Beaux canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10607796 — 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: Ernest Beaux Context triple: [Chanel No. 5, perfumer, Ernest Beaux]
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A.
Henri Ducard
Henri Ducard is a master strategist and combat trainer who serves as a key leader and mentor figure within the League of Shadows in the Batman universe.
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B.
Sidney De Paris
Sidney De Paris was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist known for his powerful tone and work in traditional and Dixieland jazz ensembles.
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C.
Charles Swann
Charles Swann is a cultivated, socially prominent Parisian aesthete whose obsessive love affair and complex inner life form one of the central narrative threads in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
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D.
Henri Ploquin
Henri Ploquin was a French architect best known for designing Marseille’s iconic Stade Vélodrome stadium.
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E.
William Barfée
William Barfée is a socially awkward, allergy-prone spelling prodigy known for his “magic foot” spelling technique in the musical comedy *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee*.
- 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: Ernest Beaux Target entity description: Ernest Beaux was a renowned early 20th-century French-Russian perfumer best known for creating the iconic fragrance Chanel No. 5.
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A.
Henri Ducard
Henri Ducard is a master strategist and combat trainer who serves as a key leader and mentor figure within the League of Shadows in the Batman universe.
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B.
Sidney De Paris
Sidney De Paris was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist known for his powerful tone and work in traditional and Dixieland jazz ensembles.
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C.
Charles Swann
Charles Swann is a cultivated, socially prominent Parisian aesthete whose obsessive love affair and complex inner life form one of the central narrative threads in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
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D.
Henri Ploquin
Henri Ploquin was a French architect best known for designing Marseille’s iconic Stade Vélodrome stadium.
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E.
William Barfée
William Barfée is a socially awkward, allergy-prone spelling prodigy known for his “magic foot” spelling technique in the musical comedy *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian perfumer
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perfumer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Grasse perfume industry ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Russian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1881-12-08 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Moscow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | French Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Coco Chanel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFragrance |
Bois des Iles
NERFINISHED
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Chanel No. 22 NERFINISHED ⓘ Chanel No. 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Cuir de Russie NERFINISHED ⓘ Gardénia (Chanel) NERFINISHED ⓘ Soir de Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCountry | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1961-06-09 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Paris ⓘ |
| designedForBrand |
Bourjois
NERFINISHED
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Chanel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
A. Rallet & Co.
NERFINISHED
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Bourjois NERFINISHED ⓘ Chanel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Beaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field | perfumery ⓘ |
| givenName | Ernest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | modern perfume composition ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | northern landscapes of Russia ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating Chanel No. 5
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modern aldehydic perfumery ⓘ |
| legacy | pioneer of modern perfumery ⓘ |
| militaryService | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movedFrom | Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movedTo | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ernest Beaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
French
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Russian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chanel No. 22
NERFINISHED
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Chanel No. 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Soir de Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | perfumer ⓘ |
| servedIn | Russian army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | aldehydic floral fragrances ⓘ |
| usedInnovation | extensive use of synthetic aldehydes ⓘ |
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: Ernest Beaux Description of subject: Ernest Beaux was a renowned early 20th-century French-Russian perfumer best known for creating the iconic fragrance Chanel No. 5.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.