François Étienne de Kellermann
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François Étienne de Kellermann was a French cavalry general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his decisive charge that helped secure Napoleon’s victory at the Battle of Marengo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| François Étienne de Kellermann canonical | 10 |
| François-Christophe Kellermann | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T808091 — 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: François Étienne de Kellermann Context triple: [Battle of Marengo, commander, François Étienne de Kellermann]
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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.
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Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier was a French marshal and Napoleon Bonaparte’s indispensable chief of staff, renowned for his organizational genius in coordinating the Grande Armée’s campaigns.
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Marshal Boufflers
Marshal Boufflers was a prominent French general and marshal of France under Louis XIV, noted for his skilled defensive leadership in major late 17th-century European conflicts.
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Nicolas Soult
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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Louis Desaix
Louis Desaix was a prominent French general of the Revolutionary era, renowned for his campaigns in Italy and Egypt and his decisive role in Napoleon Bonaparte’s early military successes.
- 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: François Étienne de Kellermann Target entity description: François Étienne de Kellermann was a French cavalry general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his decisive charge that helped secure Napoleon’s victory at the Battle of Marengo.
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A.
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.
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B.
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier was a French marshal and Napoleon Bonaparte’s indispensable chief of staff, renowned for his organizational genius in coordinating the Grande Armée’s campaigns.
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C.
Marshal Boufflers
Marshal Boufflers was a prominent French general and marshal of France under Louis XIV, noted for his skilled defensive leadership in major late 17th-century European conflicts.
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D.
Nicolas Soult
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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E.
Louis Desaix
Louis Desaix was a prominent French general of the Revolutionary era, renowned for his campaigns in Italy and Egypt and his decisive role in Napoleon Bonaparte’s early military successes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
How these facts were elicited
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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: François Étienne de Kellermann Description of subject: François Étienne de Kellermann was a French cavalry general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his decisive charge that helped secure Napoleon’s victory at the Battle of Marengo.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: François Étienne de Kellermann
linked to: François Étienne de Kellermann
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Duke of Valmy