de Beauharnais
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De Beauharnais is a French noble family name most famously associated with Joséphine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and her descendants.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| de Beauharnais canonical | 6 |
| Count of Beauharnais | 1 |
| Viscountess de Beauharnais | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2760925 — 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: de Beauharnais Context triple: [Eugène de Beauharnais, familyName, de Beauharnais]
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Eugène de Beauharnais
Eugène de Beauharnais was a French nobleman and military commander who became Napoleon Bonaparte’s stepson and served as Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy during the Napoleonic era.
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Hortense de Beauharnais
Hortense de Beauharnais was the daughter of Empress Joséphine, Queen consort of Holland, and mother of Napoleon III.
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C.
Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry was a prominent 18th-century French courtesan who became the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV and a notable figure of the late Ancien Régime.
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D.
Hortense Mancini
Hortense Mancini was a 17th-century Italian-born noblewoman and famed beauty who became one of the most celebrated Mazarinettes at the French court and later a noted memoirist and salonnière in England.
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E.
Alexandre de Beauharnais
Alexandre de Beauharnais was a French aristocrat, general, and politician of the Revolutionary era who became the first husband of Joséphine, later Empress of France.
- 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: de Beauharnais Target entity description: De Beauharnais is a French noble family name most famously associated with Joséphine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and her descendants.
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A.
Eugène de Beauharnais
Eugène de Beauharnais was a French nobleman and military commander who became Napoleon Bonaparte’s stepson and served as Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy during the Napoleonic era.
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B.
Hortense de Beauharnais
Hortense de Beauharnais was the daughter of Empress Joséphine, Queen consort of Holland, and mother of Napoleon III.
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C.
Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry was a prominent 18th-century French courtesan who became the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV and a notable figure of the late Ancien Régime.
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D.
Hortense Mancini
Hortense Mancini was a 17th-century Italian-born noblewoman and famed beauty who became one of the most celebrated Mazarinettes at the French court and later a noted memoirist and salonnière in England.
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E.
Alexandre de Beauharnais
Alexandre de Beauharnais was a French aristocrat, general, and politician of the Revolutionary era who became the first husband of Joséphine, later Empress of France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: de Beauharnais Description of subject: De Beauharnais is a French noble family name most famously associated with Joséphine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and her descendants.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.