Henri Nicol
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Henri Nicol was a French naval officer known for commanding forces during Japan’s Boshin War-era Naval Battle of Hakodate in 1869.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henri Nicol canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3843425 — 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: Henri Nicol Context triple: [Naval Battle of Hakodate, commander, Henri Nicol]
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A.
Henri Martin
Henri Martin was a French Post-Impressionist painter renowned for his luminous pointillist landscapes and large-scale decorative murals.
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B.
Henri Lebasque
Henri Lebasque was a French post-impressionist painter known for his luminous use of color and intimate domestic and landscape scenes.
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C.
Henri Fazy
Henri Fazy was a prominent Swiss Radical politician and long-serving statesman from Geneva, influential in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Henri Contet
Henri Contet was a French lyricist known for writing songs for prominent chanson artists in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Georges Lacombe
Georges Lacombe was a French Post-Impressionist painter and sculptor associated with the Nabi group, known for his symbolist and decorative style.
- 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: Henri Nicol Target entity description: Henri Nicol was a French naval officer known for commanding forces during Japan’s Boshin War-era Naval Battle of Hakodate in 1869.
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A.
Henri Martin
Henri Martin was a French Post-Impressionist painter renowned for his luminous pointillist landscapes and large-scale decorative murals.
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B.
Henri Lebasque
Henri Lebasque was a French post-impressionist painter known for his luminous use of color and intimate domestic and landscape scenes.
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C.
Henri Fazy
Henri Fazy was a prominent Swiss Radical politician and long-serving statesman from Geneva, influential in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Henri Contet
Henri Contet was a French lyricist known for writing songs for prominent chanson artists in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Georges Lacombe
Georges Lacombe was a French Post-Impressionist painter and sculptor associated with the Nabi group, known for his symbolist and decorative style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French military officer
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naval officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activityStartLocation | France ⓘ |
| conflict |
Boshin War
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Naval Battle of Hakodate ⓘ |
| countryOfService | France ⓘ |
| knownFor |
commanding French naval forces during the Naval Battle of Hakodate
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participation in the Boshin War-era operations in Japan ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer in the French Navy ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableEvent | command of French naval forces off Hakodate in 1869 ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Hakodate
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Japan ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Boshin War
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Naval Battle of Hakodate ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| yearOfActivity | 1869 ⓘ |
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: Henri Nicol Description of subject: Henri Nicol was a French naval officer known for commanding forces during Japan’s Boshin War-era Naval Battle of Hakodate in 1869.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.