Ferdinand de Marsin
E148075
Ferdinand de Marsin was a French general and marshal of France who served prominently during the War of the Spanish Succession.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ferdinand de Marsin canonical | 4 |
| Ferdinand de Marsan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T646922 — 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: Ferdinand de Marsin Context triple: [Battle of Blenheim, commander, Ferdinand de Marsin]
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A.
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau was an 18th-century French painter renowned for his refined pastel portraits and subtle psychological characterizations of his sitters.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste Le Blond
Jean-Baptiste Le Blond was a French architect and landscape designer of the early 18th century, known for bringing French formal garden and architectural styles to Russia under Peter the Great.
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C.
Louis Lagrenée
Louis Lagrenée was an 18th-century French painter known for his elegant Neoclassical and Rococo works and his prominent role in the Parisian art establishment.
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D.
Charles-René de Bombelles
Charles-René de Bombelles was a French nobleman and military officer who became the third husband of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon Bonaparte’s former empress.
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E.
Louis de Jaucourt
Louis de Jaucourt was an 18th-century French scholar and physician best known for writing thousands of articles for Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, making him one of its most prolific contributors.
- 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: Ferdinand de Marsin Target entity description: Ferdinand de Marsin was a French general and marshal of France who served prominently during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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A.
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau was an 18th-century French painter renowned for his refined pastel portraits and subtle psychological characterizations of his sitters.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste Le Blond
Jean-Baptiste Le Blond was a French architect and landscape designer of the early 18th century, known for bringing French formal garden and architectural styles to Russia under Peter the Great.
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C.
Louis Lagrenée
Louis Lagrenée was an 18th-century French painter known for his elegant Neoclassical and Rococo works and his prominent role in the Parisian art establishment.
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D.
Charles-René de Bombelles
Charles-René de Bombelles was a French nobleman and military officer who became the third husband of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon Bonaparte’s former empress.
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E.
Louis de Jaucourt
Louis de Jaucourt was an 18th-century French scholar and physician best known for writing thousands of articles for Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, making him one of its most prolific contributors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Ferdinand de Marsin Description of subject: Ferdinand de Marsin was a French general and marshal of France who served prominently during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ferdinand de Marsin