Jean de Voilemont
E432946
Jean de Voilemont was an alias used by French Army officer Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, who is historically infamous as the real traitor in the Dreyfus Affair.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean de Voilemont canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4357879 — 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 Voilemont Context triple: [Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, usedAlias, Jean de Voilemont]
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A.
Guillaume de Berghes
Guillaume de Berghes was a prominent early modern Catholic prelate who served as bishop in the Low Countries, notably holding the episcopal see of Ypres.
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B.
Jacques de Fariaux
Jacques de Fariaux was a 17th-century French military officer best known for commanding the defending forces during the 1673 siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War.
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C.
Jean de Gastines
Jean de Gastines is a French architect best known for co-designing the contemporary art museum Centre Pompidou-Metz.
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D.
Claude d'Annebault
Claude d'Annebault was a 16th-century French nobleman, admiral, and marshal who served as a leading military commander under King Francis I.
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E.
Antoine de Caux
Antoine de Caux was a military commander known for leading forces during the Siege of Acre.
- 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 Voilemont Target entity description: Jean de Voilemont was an alias used by French Army officer Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, who is historically infamous as the real traitor in the Dreyfus Affair.
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A.
Guillaume de Berghes
Guillaume de Berghes was a prominent early modern Catholic prelate who served as bishop in the Low Countries, notably holding the episcopal see of Ypres.
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B.
Jacques de Fariaux
Jacques de Fariaux was a 17th-century French military officer best known for commanding the defending forces during the 1673 siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War.
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C.
Jean de Gastines
Jean de Gastines is a French architect best known for co-designing the contemporary art museum Centre Pompidou-Metz.
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D.
Claude d'Annebault
Claude d'Annebault was a 16th-century French nobleman, admiral, and marshal who served as a leading military commander under King Francis I.
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E.
Antoine de Caux
Antoine de Caux was a military commander known for leading forces during the Siege of Acre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alias
ⓘ
pseudonym ⓘ |
| aliasOf | Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Dreyfus Affair
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linked to:
Dreyfus affair
|
| associatedWithOccupationOfBearer | French Army officer ⓘ |
| bearerAccusedOf | treason against France ⓘ |
| bearerBranchOfService | French Army ⓘ |
| bearerFullName | Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy ⓘ |
| bearerHistoricalReputation | real traitor in the Dreyfus Affair ⓘ |
| bearerMilitaryRank | major ⓘ |
| bearerNationality | French ⓘ |
| bearerRoleInEvent | perpetrator of espionage in the Dreyfus Affair ⓘ |
| countryOfUse | France ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| notableFor | being an alias of the real traitor in the Dreyfus Affair ⓘ |
| usedBy | Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy ⓘ |
| usedDuringCentury |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
Dreyfus Affair
ⓘ
linked to:
Dreyfus affair
French Army ⓘ |
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 Voilemont Description of subject: Jean de Voilemont was an alias used by French Army officer Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, who is historically infamous as the real traitor in the Dreyfus Affair.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.