Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours
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Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours, was a renowned early 16th-century French military leader celebrated for his brilliant but brief career during the Italian Wars, where he earned a reputation for bold and aggressive tactics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours canonical | 6 |
| Gaston de Foix | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4652803 — 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: Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours Context triple: [Battle of Ravenna, commander, Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours]
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Fernand de Langle de Cary
Fernand de Langle de Cary was a French general of the First World War who commanded major field armies in the early Western Front campaigns, including the 4th Army during the 1914 operations in the Ardennes.
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Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne was an 18th-century French nobleman and military officer from the prominent La Tour d’Auvergne family, noted for his high rank and influence at the royal court.
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Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne
Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne was a 17th-century French nobleman and military leader, notably Duke of Bouillon and a prominent figure in the political and religious conflicts of his time.
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Henri de Rohan
Henri de Rohan was a prominent French nobleman and military leader who became the principal strategist and political head of the Huguenot (French Protestant) cause in the early 17th century.
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Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully
Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, was a prominent French statesman and chief minister to King Henry IV, renowned for his financial and administrative reforms that helped restore stability to France after the Wars of Religion.
- 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: Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours Target entity description: Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours, was a renowned early 16th-century French military leader celebrated for his brilliant but brief career during the Italian Wars, where he earned a reputation for bold and aggressive tactics.
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A.
Fernand de Langle de Cary
Fernand de Langle de Cary was a French general of the First World War who commanded major field armies in the early Western Front campaigns, including the 4th Army during the 1914 operations in the Ardennes.
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B.
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne was an 18th-century French nobleman and military officer from the prominent La Tour d’Auvergne family, noted for his high rank and influence at the royal court.
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C.
Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne
Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne was a 17th-century French nobleman and military leader, notably Duke of Bouillon and a prominent figure in the political and religious conflicts of his time.
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D.
Henri de Rohan
Henri de Rohan was a prominent French nobleman and military leader who became the principal strategist and political head of the Huguenot (French Protestant) cause in the early 17th century.
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E.
Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully
Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, was a prominent French statesman and chief minister to King Henry IV, renowned for his financial and administrative reforms that helped restore stability to France after the Wars of Religion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours Description of subject: Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours, was a renowned early 16th-century French military leader celebrated for his brilliant but brief career during the Italian Wars, where he earned a reputation for bold and aggressive tactics.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours