Nicolas Soult
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Nicolas Soult was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic era, renowned for his strategic skill and key role in many of Napoleon’s major campaigns.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean-de-Dieu Soult | 14 |
| Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult | 3 |
| Marshal Soult | 1 |
| Nicolas Soult canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T801587 — 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: Nicolas Soult Context triple: [Battle of Austerlitz, hasCommander, Nicolas Soult]
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André Masséna
André Masséna was a prominent French military commander and one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most celebrated marshals, renowned for his strategic skill during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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François Certain Canrobert
François Certain Canrobert was a 19th-century French Army marshal who gained prominence for leading French forces during the Crimean War.
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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher was a Prussian field marshal renowned for his aggressive leadership and decisive role alongside Wellington in defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
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Jean Lannes
Jean Lannes was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his aggressive leadership and key role in many of Napoleon’s major victories.
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Jacques François Dugommier
Jacques François Dugommier was a French Revolutionary general noted for his decisive leadership in several key campaigns, including the early victories of the Revolutionary Wars.
- 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: Nicolas Soult Target entity description: Nicolas Soult was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic era, renowned for his strategic skill and key role in many of Napoleon’s major campaigns.
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A.
André Masséna
André Masséna was a prominent French military commander and one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most celebrated marshals, renowned for his strategic skill during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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B.
François Certain Canrobert
François Certain Canrobert was a 19th-century French Army marshal who gained prominence for leading French forces during the Crimean War.
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C.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher was a Prussian field marshal renowned for his aggressive leadership and decisive role alongside Wellington in defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
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D.
Jean Lannes
Jean Lannes was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his aggressive leadership and key role in many of Napoleon’s major victories.
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E.
Jacques François Dugommier
Jacques François Dugommier was a French Revolutionary general noted for his decisive leadership in several key campaigns, including the early victories of the Revolutionary Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Nicolas Soult Description of subject: Nicolas Soult was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic era, renowned for his strategic skill and key role in many of Napoleon’s major campaigns.
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