Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois
E323871
Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois was a French naval officer and admiral of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, noted for his command of squadrons in the Indian Ocean and his engagements against British forces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3058109 — 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: Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois Context triple: [Océan, servedAsFlagshipFor, Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois]
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A.
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers was a French admiral of the Revolutionary era, best known for commanding the French fleet that was defeated by Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
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B.
Admiral Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran
Admiral Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran was an 18th-century French naval officer best known for commanding the French fleet defeated by the British at the Battle of Lagos during the Seven Years' War.
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C.
François Joseph Paul de Grasse
François Joseph Paul de Grasse was a French admiral whose decisive naval victory in the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of the Chesapeake, helped secure the British surrender at Yorktown.
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D.
Charles de Rochefort
Charles de Rochefort was a French actor and film director active in the silent and early sound eras, known for prominent roles in European and Hollywood productions.
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E.
Jean-Andoche Junot
Jean-Andoche Junot was a French general and close confidant of Napoleon Bonaparte, noted for his service in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including major campaigns in Spain and Russia.
- 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: Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois Target entity description: Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois was a French naval officer and admiral of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, noted for his command of squadrons in the Indian Ocean and his engagements against British forces.
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A.
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers was a French admiral of the Revolutionary era, best known for commanding the French fleet that was defeated by Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
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B.
Admiral Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran
Admiral Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran was an 18th-century French naval officer best known for commanding the French fleet defeated by the British at the Battle of Lagos during the Seven Years' War.
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C.
François Joseph Paul de Grasse
François Joseph Paul de Grasse was a French admiral whose decisive naval victory in the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of the Chesapeake, helped secure the British surrender at Yorktown.
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D.
Charles de Rochefort
Charles de Rochefort was a French actor and film director active in the silent and early sound eras, known for prominent roles in European and Hollywood productions.
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E.
Jean-Andoche Junot
Jean-Andoche Junot was a French general and close confidant of Napoleon Bonaparte, noted for his service in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including major campaigns in Spain and Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French naval officer
ⓘ
admiral ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activityRegion | Indian Ocean ⓘ |
| allegiance | France ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| conflict |
French Revolutionary Wars
ⓘ
Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| era |
French Revolutionary era
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Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | admiral ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command of French naval squadrons in the Indian Ocean
ⓘ
naval engagements against British forces ⓘ |
| notableRole | commander of French naval squadrons ⓘ |
| occupation |
admiral
ⓘ
naval officer ⓘ |
| opponent |
British Royal Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Navy
United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois Description of subject: Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois was a French naval officer and admiral of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, noted for his command of squadrons in the Indian Ocean and his engagements against British forces.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.