Michel Ney
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Michel Ney was a prominent French military commander and marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his bravery and leadership in major battles across Europe.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michel Ney canonical | 27 |
| Marshal Michel Ney | 8 |
| Marshal Michel Ney – French forces | 1 |
| Michel Ney – France | 1 |
| Michel Ney, duc d’Elchingen, prince de la Moskowa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T914563 — 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: Michel Ney Context triple: [Battle of Borodino, commander, Michel Ney]
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Louis-Nicolas Davout
Louis-Nicolas Davout was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his strict discipline, tactical brilliance, and decisive victories against larger enemy forces.
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Joachim Murat
Joachim Murat was a French cavalry commander and Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon who became King of Naples in the early 19th century.
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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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Jean-Andoche Junot
Jean-Andoche Junot was a French general and close confidant of Napoleon Bonaparte, noted for his service in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including major campaigns in Spain and Russia.
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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.
- 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: Michel Ney Target entity description: Michel Ney was a prominent French military commander and marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his bravery and leadership in major battles across Europe.
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A.
Louis-Nicolas Davout
Louis-Nicolas Davout was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his strict discipline, tactical brilliance, and decisive victories against larger enemy forces.
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B.
Joachim Murat
Joachim Murat was a French cavalry commander and Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon who became King of Naples in the early 19th century.
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C.
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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D.
Jean-Andoche Junot
Jean-Andoche Junot was a French general and close confidant of Napoleon Bonaparte, noted for his service in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including major campaigns in Spain and Russia.
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E.
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.
- 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: Michel Ney Description of subject: Michel Ney was a prominent French military commander and marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his bravery and leadership in major battles across Europe.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Battle of Smolensk
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