André Corap
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André Corap was a French army general best known for his ill-fated command of French forces during the early stages of the German invasion in 1940.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| André Corap canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T848121 — 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: André Corap Context triple: [Battle of Sedan (1940), commandedBy, André Corap]
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A.
Ernesto Melo Antunes
Ernesto Melo Antunes was a Portuguese military officer, intellectual, and politician who played a key ideological and diplomatic role in the Carnation Revolution and the country’s transition to democracy.
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B.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa
Henrique Alvim Corrêa was a Brazilian illustrator and painter best known for his dark, visionary artwork created for early editions of H.G. Wells’s science fiction.
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C.
Tadeu Marroco
Tadeu Marroco is a Brazilian-born business executive who serves as the chief executive officer of British American Tobacco.
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D.
José Alexandre
José Alexandre is the birth name of Xanana Gusmão, the prominent East Timorese independence leader and statesman.
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E.
Carlos César
Carlos César is a Portuguese politician who has served as a prominent leader within the Socialist Party and held key governmental roles, including President of the Regional Government of the Azores.
- 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: André Corap Target entity description: André Corap was a French army general best known for his ill-fated command of French forces during the early stages of the German invasion in 1940.
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A.
Ernesto Melo Antunes
Ernesto Melo Antunes was a Portuguese military officer, intellectual, and politician who played a key ideological and diplomatic role in the Carnation Revolution and the country’s transition to democracy.
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B.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa
Henrique Alvim Corrêa was a Brazilian illustrator and painter best known for his dark, visionary artwork created for early editions of H.G. Wells’s science fiction.
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C.
Tadeu Marroco
Tadeu Marroco is a Brazilian-born business executive who serves as the chief executive officer of British American Tobacco.
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D.
José Alexandre
José Alexandre is the birth name of Xanana Gusmão, the prominent East Timorese independence leader and statesman.
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E.
Carlos César
Carlos César is a Portuguese politician who has served as a prominent leader within the Socialist Party and held key governmental roles, including President of the Regional Government of the Azores.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Army general
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human ⓘ |
| conflict |
Battle of France
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World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Corap ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | André ⓘ |
| hasRole | field commander ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| name | André Corap ⓘ |
| notableEvent | ill-fated command during the German invasion of France in 1940 ⓘ |
| notableFor | command of French forces during early stages of the German invasion of France in 1940 ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | early stages of the 1940 German offensive in the West ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | army general ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | France ⓘ |
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: André Corap Description of subject: André Corap was a French army general best known for his ill-fated command of French forces during the early stages of the German invasion in 1940.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.