Jean Cayrol
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Jean Cayrol was a French poet, novelist, and screenwriter best known for his literary works on memory and the Holocaust and for writing the narration of Alain Resnais’s film "Night and Fog."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Cayrol canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10723053 — 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 Cayrol Context triple: [Alain Resnais, collaboratedWith, Jean Cayrol]
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A.
Joseph Vallot
Joseph Vallot was a French astronomer, geographer, and mountaineer renowned for his pioneering high-altitude scientific research in the Mont Blanc massif.
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B.
Claude Bazire
Claude Bazire was a French revolutionary politician and member of the National Convention who played an active role in the radical phase of the French Revolution before his execution during the Reign of Terror.
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C.
François Mouret
François Mouret is a central character in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, depicted as a provincial bourgeois whose life and sanity unravel amid family tensions and political intrigue in the novel "La Conquête de Plassans."
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D.
André Dunoyer de Segonzac
André Dunoyer de Segonzac was a 20th-century French painter and printmaker known for his expressive landscapes, still lifes, and figure studies that bridged post-Impressionism and early modernism.
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E.
Jean Jouvenet
Jean Jouvenet was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his large-scale religious compositions and influential role in the artistic life of late 17th- and early 18th-century France.
- 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 Cayrol Target entity description: Jean Cayrol was a French poet, novelist, and screenwriter best known for his literary works on memory and the Holocaust and for writing the narration of Alain Resnais’s film "Night and Fog."
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A.
Joseph Vallot
Joseph Vallot was a French astronomer, geographer, and mountaineer renowned for his pioneering high-altitude scientific research in the Mont Blanc massif.
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B.
Claude Bazire
Claude Bazire was a French revolutionary politician and member of the National Convention who played an active role in the radical phase of the French Revolution before his execution during the Reign of Terror.
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C.
François Mouret
François Mouret is a central character in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, depicted as a provincial bourgeois whose life and sanity unravel amid family tensions and political intrigue in the novel "La Conquête de Plassans."
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D.
André Dunoyer de Segonzac
André Dunoyer de Segonzac was a 20th-century French painter and printmaker known for his expressive landscapes, still lifes, and figure studies that bridged post-Impressionism and early modernism.
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E.
Jean Jouvenet
Jean Jouvenet was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his large-scale religious compositions and influential role in the artistic life of late 17th- and early 18th-century France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust survivor
ⓘ
human ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Prix Renaudot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Alain Resnais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1911-06-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2005-02-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Bordeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cayrol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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novel ⓘ poetry ⓘ screenplay ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | French postwar literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | Éditions du Seuil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Nouveau Roman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jean Cayrol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Je vivrai l’amour des autres
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Lazare parmi nous NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Corps étrangers NERFINISHED ⓘ Night and Fog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ publisher ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bordeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bordeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Bordeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor at Éditions du Seuil ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| theme |
remembrance
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survival ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| wasPrisonerIn |
Gusen concentration camp
NERFINISHED
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Mauthausen concentration camp complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workFocusedOn |
Holocaust
NERFINISHED
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World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| wroteNarrationFor | Night and Fog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Cayrol Description of subject: Jean Cayrol was a French poet, novelist, and screenwriter best known for his literary works on memory and the Holocaust and for writing the narration of Alain Resnais’s film "Night and Fog."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.