"L'union fait la force"
E1278
"L'union fait la force" is the French phrase meaning "Unity makes strength," serving as a symbolic expression of national solidarity and cohesion.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "L'union fait la force" canonical | 1 |
| Eendracht maakt macht | 1 |
| Einigkeit macht stark | 1 |
| L'Union fait la force | 1 |
| L'union fait la force | 1 |
| L’union fait la force | 1 |
| “Съединението прави силата” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18481 — 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: "L'union fait la force" Context triple: [Belgium, nationalMotto, "L'union fait la force"]
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A.
France
France is a major Western European nation known for its influential history, culture, and economy, and as a founding member of the European Union and the United Nations.
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B.
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force was the World War II command center led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower that directed Allied operations in Western Europe.
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C.
NATO
NATO is a political and military alliance of North American and European countries formed for collective defense and security cooperation.
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D.
The Commonwealth
The Commonwealth is a traditional nickname for the U.S. state of Massachusetts, reflecting its historical self-identification as a government founded on the common consent and welfare of its people.
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E.
Triple Alliance (1668)
The Triple Alliance of 1668 was a defensive pact between England, the Dutch Republic, and Sweden formed to check French expansion under Louis XIV during the War of Devolution.
- 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: "L'union fait la force" Target entity description: "L'union fait la force" is the French phrase meaning "Unity makes strength," serving as a symbolic expression of national solidarity and cohesion.
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A.
France
France is a major Western European nation known for its influential history, culture, and economy, and as a founding member of the European Union and the United Nations.
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B.
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force was the World War II command center led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower that directed Allied operations in Western Europe.
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C.
NATO
NATO is a political and military alliance of North American and European countries formed for collective defense and security cooperation.
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D.
The Commonwealth
The Commonwealth is a traditional nickname for the U.S. state of Massachusetts, reflecting its historical self-identification as a government founded on the common consent and welfare of its people.
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E.
Triple Alliance (1668)
The Triple Alliance of 1668 was a defensive pact between England, the Dutch Republic, and Sweden formed to check French expansion under Louis XIV during the War of Devolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French phrase
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motto ⓘ national motto ⓘ |
| denotes |
collective strength
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national solidarity ⓘ social cohesion ⓘ |
| grammaticalStructure | declarative sentence ⓘ |
| hasWord |
fait
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force ⓘ la ⓘ union ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| meaning |
Strength through unity
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Unity makes strength ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| theme |
cooperation
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solidarity ⓘ strength ⓘ unity ⓘ |
| translation | Unity makes strength ⓘ |
| usedAs |
motto of the Belgian Revolution
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national motto of Belgium ⓘ national motto of Haiti ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
national symbolism
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political discourse ⓘ social movements ⓘ |
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: "L'union fait la force" Description of subject: "L'union fait la force" is the French phrase meaning "Unity makes strength," serving as a symbolic expression of national solidarity and cohesion.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: "L'union fait la force"
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