de Vimeur
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De Vimeur is a French noble family name most notably borne by Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a key French general in the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| de Vimeur canonical | 3 |
| root "Vimeur" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T820213 — 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: de Vimeur Context triple: [Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, familyName, de Vimeur]
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A.
Sauvy
Sauvy is a French surname most notably borne by Alfred Sauvy, a prominent demographer, sociologist, and economist.
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B.
de Chomedey
de Chomedey is the family name of Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, the French military officer and founder of Montreal.
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C.
Ermenonville
Ermenonville is a village in northern France known for its picturesque landscape garden and as the place where philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent his final days.
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D.
Count of Saint-Leu
The Count of Saint-Leu was a noble title held by Louis Bonaparte, former King of Holland and younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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E.
Casteau
Casteau is a village in Belgium best known as the site of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).
- 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: de Vimeur Target entity description: De Vimeur is a French noble family name most notably borne by Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a key French general in the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Sauvy
Sauvy is a French surname most notably borne by Alfred Sauvy, a prominent demographer, sociologist, and economist.
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B.
de Chomedey
de Chomedey is the family name of Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, the French military officer and founder of Montreal.
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C.
Ermenonville
Ermenonville is a village in northern France known for its picturesque landscape garden and as the place where philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent his final days.
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D.
Count of Saint-Leu
The Count of Saint-Leu was a noble title held by Louis Bonaparte, former King of Holland and younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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E.
Casteau
Casteau is a village in Belgium best known as the site of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French general
ⓘ
French noble family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithNobility | French nobility ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| familyName | de Vimeur ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
particle "de"
ⓘ
root "Vimeur" ⓘ
linked to:
de Vimeur
|
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | comte de Rochambeau ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding French forces in the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| usedAsFamilyNameIn | 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: de Vimeur Description of subject: De Vimeur is a French noble family name most notably borne by Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a key French general in the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.