Desaix
E323271
Desaix is a French surname most notably associated with General Louis Desaix, a prominent military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Desaix canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3063153 — 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: Desaix Context triple: [Louis Desaix, familyName, Desaix]
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A.
Dovadola
Dovadola is a small Italian town and municipality in the Emilia-Romagna region, known for its historic center and scenic location in the Apennine foothills.
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B.
Doncieux
Doncieux is a French surname most notably associated with Camille Doncieux, the first wife and frequent model of painter Claude Monet.
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C.
Sauvestre
Sauvestre is a French surname most notably associated with architect Stephen Sauvestre, who contributed to the design of the Eiffel Tower.
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D.
Alvescot
Alvescot is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, England, known for its traditional stone cottages and historic parish church.
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E.
Semprún
Semprún is the surname of Jorge Semprún, the Spanish-born writer, politician, and Holocaust survivor known for his works on exile, memory, and totalitarianism.
- 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: Desaix Target entity description: Desaix is a French surname most notably associated with General Louis Desaix, a prominent military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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A.
Dovadola
Dovadola is a small Italian town and municipality in the Emilia-Romagna region, known for its historic center and scenic location in the Apennine foothills.
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B.
Doncieux
Doncieux is a French surname most notably associated with Camille Doncieux, the first wife and frequent model of painter Claude Monet.
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C.
Sauvestre
Sauvestre is a French surname most notably associated with architect Stephen Sauvestre, who contributed to the design of the Eiffel Tower.
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D.
Alvescot
Alvescot is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, England, known for its traditional stone cottages and historic parish church.
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E.
Semprún
Semprún is the surname of Jorge Semprún, the Spanish-born writer, politician, and Holocaust survivor known for his works on exile, memory, and totalitarianism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French general
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French-language surname ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Napoleon Bonaparte ⓘ |
| birthCountry | France ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1768-08-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Ayat-sur-Sioule ⓘ |
| commanded |
French forces at the Battle of Marengo (counter-attack phase)
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linked to:
Battle of Marengo
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| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1800-06-14 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Battle of Marengo ⓘ |
| era | French Revolutionary era ⓘ |
| familyName | Desaix ⓘ |
| givenName | Louis ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | military officer ⓘ |
| knownAs | Le Juste Desaix ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Louis Desaix ⓘ |
| notableFor | military leadership during the French Revolutionary Wars ⓘ |
| participatedIn | French Revolutionary Wars ⓘ |
| rank | general ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| servedIn |
Army of the Danube
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Army of the Orient ⓘ Army of the Rhine ⓘ |
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: Desaix Description of subject: Desaix is a French surname most notably associated with General Louis Desaix, a prominent military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.