Fernand de Langle de Cary
E294047
Fernand de Langle de Cary was a French general of the First World War who commanded major field armies in the early Western Front campaigns, including the 4th Army during the 1914 operations in the Ardennes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fernand de Langle de Cary canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2448734 — 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: Fernand de Langle de Cary Context triple: [Battle of the Ardennes (1914), commander, Fernand de Langle de Cary]
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A.
Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne
Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne was a 17th-century French nobleman and military leader, notably Duke of Bouillon and a prominent figure in the political and religious conflicts of his time.
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B.
Philippe de La Baume Le Blanc
Philippe de La Baume Le Blanc was the son of Louise de La Vallière, the famed mistress of King Louis XIV of France.
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C.
Charles de La Baume Le Blanc
Charles de La Baume Le Blanc was a French nobleman of the 17th century, known primarily as the son of Louise de La Vallière, the famed mistress of King Louis XIV.
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D.
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne was an 18th-century French nobleman and military officer from the prominent La Tour d’Auvergne family, noted for his high rank and influence at the royal court.
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E.
François de Neufchâteau
François de Neufchâteau was a French statesman, writer, and poet who served as a prominent political figure during the French Revolution and the early years of the French Republic.
- 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: Fernand de Langle de Cary Target entity description: Fernand de Langle de Cary was a French general of the First World War who commanded major field armies in the early Western Front campaigns, including the 4th Army during the 1914 operations in the Ardennes.
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A.
Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne
Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne was a 17th-century French nobleman and military leader, notably Duke of Bouillon and a prominent figure in the political and religious conflicts of his time.
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B.
Philippe de La Baume Le Blanc
Philippe de La Baume Le Blanc was the son of Louise de La Vallière, the famed mistress of King Louis XIV of France.
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C.
Charles de La Baume Le Blanc
Charles de La Baume Le Blanc was a French nobleman of the 17th century, known primarily as the son of Louise de La Vallière, the famed mistress of King Louis XIV.
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D.
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne was an 18th-century French nobleman and military officer from the prominent La Tour d’Auvergne family, noted for his high rank and influence at the royal court.
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E.
François de Neufchâteau
François de Neufchâteau was a French statesman, writer, and poet who served as a prominent political figure during the French Revolution and the early years of the French Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Army general
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human ⓘ |
| activeYears | late 19th century–early 20th century ⓘ |
| citizenship | French ⓘ |
| commanded | French Fourth Army ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| era |
20th century
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World War I era ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Ardennes operations of 1914 ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding major French field armies in early World War I ⓘ |
| notableRole | French army group commander in World War I ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of the French Fourth Army in the Ardennes, 1914 ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
First World War
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linked to:
World War I
Western Front ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
army commander on the Western Front
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commander of French Fourth Army ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations |
Ardennes region
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Western Front in World War I ⓘ
linked to:
Western Front
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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: Fernand de Langle de Cary Description of subject: Fernand de Langle de Cary was a French general of the First World War who commanded major field armies in the early Western Front campaigns, including the 4th Army during the 1914 operations in the Ardennes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.