Jean de la Garde
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Jean de la Garde was a military commander known for leading forces against the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War, notably at the 1579 siege of Maastricht.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean de la Garde canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3421878 — 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: Jean de la Garde Context triple: [siege and capture of Maastricht (1579), opposingCommander, Jean de la Garde]
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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.
comte de Tourville
Comte de Tourville is the French noble title held by Anne Hilarion de Tourville, a renowned 17th-century admiral of the French Navy.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, was a prominent French general and courtier under Louis XIV, remembered for his high noble status and several major military defeats during the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 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: Jean de la Garde Target entity description: Jean de la Garde was a military commander known for leading forces against the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War, notably at the 1579 siege of Maastricht.
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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.
comte de Tourville
Comte de Tourville is the French noble title held by Anne Hilarion de Tourville, a renowned 17th-century admiral of the French Navy.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, was a prominent French general and courtier under Louis XIV, remembered for his high noble status and several major military defeats during the War of the Spanish Succession.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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military commander ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| activeIn |
16th century
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Low Countries ⓘ |
| commanded | forces opposing Spain ⓘ |
| conflictSide |
Dutch Revolt forces
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linked to:
States Army of the Dutch Republic
anti-Spanish forces ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Eighty Years' War ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commander ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading forces against the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War
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role in the 1579 siege of Maastricht ⓘ |
| opponent | Spanish forces ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Eighty Years' War
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Siege of Maastricht (1579) ⓘ
linked to:
siege and capture of Maastricht (1579)
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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: Jean de la Garde Description of subject: Jean de la Garde was a military commander known for leading forces against the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War, notably at the 1579 siege of Maastricht.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.