Guillaume-Henri
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Guillaume-Henri is the given name of Guillaume-Henri Dufour, a prominent 19th-century Swiss general, engineer, and co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Guillaume-Henri canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T790651 — 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: Guillaume-Henri Context triple: [Guillaume-Henri Dufour, givenName, Guillaume-Henri]
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Charles-Louis
Charles-Louis was the given name of Montesquieu, the influential French Enlightenment thinker best known for his theory of the separation of powers in government.
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B.
Charles-Michel
Charles-Michel is a French given name historically borne by several notable figures, including nobles, politicians, and religious leaders.
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C.
Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse
Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse was an illegitimate but later legitimized son of King Louis XIV who became a prominent French admiral and high-ranking noble during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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D.
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince was an 18th-century French painter and etcher known for his genre scenes and for popularizing "russeries" inspired by his travels in Russia.
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E.
Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine
Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine, was a legitimized son of King Louis XIV of France who became a prominent French noble and military commander at the turn of the 18th century.
- 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: Guillaume-Henri Target entity description: Guillaume-Henri is the given name of Guillaume-Henri Dufour, a prominent 19th-century Swiss general, engineer, and co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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A.
Charles-Louis
Charles-Louis was the given name of Montesquieu, the influential French Enlightenment thinker best known for his theory of the separation of powers in government.
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B.
Charles-Michel
Charles-Michel is a French given name historically borne by several notable figures, including nobles, politicians, and religious leaders.
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C.
Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse
Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse was an illegitimate but later legitimized son of King Louis XIV who became a prominent French admiral and high-ranking noble during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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D.
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince was an 18th-century French painter and etcher known for his genre scenes and for popularizing "russeries" inspired by his travels in Russia.
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E.
Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine
Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine, was a legitimized son of King Louis XIV of France who became a prominent French noble and military commander at the turn of the 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
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human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | International Committee of the Red Cross ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| familyName | Dufour ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cartography
ⓘ
engineering ⓘ humanitarianism ⓘ military science ⓘ |
| givenName | Guillaume-Henri ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Guillaume-Henri ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | International Committee of the Red Cross ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Guillaume-Henri Dufour ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding the International Committee of the Red Cross
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commanding federal troops in the Sonderbund War ⓘ producing the Dufour Map of Switzerland ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dufour Map ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartographer
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civil engineer ⓘ general ⓘ military engineer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Switzerland ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Swiss Army general
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commander-in-chief of the Swiss federal army ⓘ |
| usage | masculine given name ⓘ |
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: Guillaume-Henri Description of subject: Guillaume-Henri is the given name of Guillaume-Henri Dufour, a prominent 19th-century Swiss general, engineer, and co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.