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 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "house-houbigant-1775",
 "type": "HistoricalEvent",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "WD-1"
 ],
 "title": "Houbigant, the perfume house, dated 1775",
 "date": {
  "value": "1775",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1775,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/lane20/wikidata/Q731488.json:12",
  "quote": "{\"property\":\"P571\",\"label\":\"inception\",\"value\":\"+1775-01-01T00:00:00Z\",\"precision\":9,\"precision_means\":\"year\",\"rank\":\"normal\",\"references\":1,\"reference_values\":[\"P143:Q48183 \"]}",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "Wikidata also carries a second inception, 2010 (a later company of the name): the 1775 statement is the house’s"
 },
 "kind": "house",
 "what": {
  "value": "Houbigant, founded by Jean-François Houbigant, is dated to 1775 by Wikidata.",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/lane20/wikidata/Q731488.json:14",
  "quote": "{\"property\":\"P112\",\"label\":\"founded by\",\"value\":\"Q6169258\",\"value_label\":\"Jean-François Houbigant\",\"rank\":\"normal\",\"references\":1,\"reference_values\":[\"P143:Q8447 \"]}",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "label": "documented",
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  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no place on record for this event"
 },
 "actors": [
  {
   "name": "Jean-François Houbigant",
   "role": "founder",
   "perfumer": null,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "WD-1",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/lane20/wikidata/Q731488.json:14",
   "quote": "{\"property\":\"P112\",\"label\":\"founded by\",\"value\":\"Q6169258\",\"value_label\":\"Jean-François Houbigant\",\"rank\":\"normal\",\"references\":1,\"reference_values\":[\"P143:Q8447 \"]}",
   "confidence": "B"
  }
 ],
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "Wikidata has two inception dates for Houbigant, 1775 and 2010; the second belongs to a later company of the name.",
   "sources": [
    "WD-1"
   ]
  }
 ],
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 "materials": [],
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 "links": {
  "essay": "/history#mega-timeline"
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 "copy": {
  "lede": "Houbigant, the house of Fougère Royale, is dated to 1775; its founder was Jean-François Houbigant.",
  "body": [
   "Both facts are Wikidata’s (a second inception, 2010, is a later company). The house is the one the Osmothèque lists for Fougère Royale."
  ]
 }
}