François Thomas de Vaux
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François Thomas de Vaux was a French naval officer who rose to the kingdom’s highest maritime rank as an Admiral of France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| François Thomas de Vaux canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5791287 — 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: François Thomas de Vaux Context triple: [Admiral of France, positionHeldBy, François Thomas de Vaux]
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A.
Antoine de Caux
Antoine de Caux was a military commander known for leading forces during the Siege of Acre.
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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.
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.
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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E.
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.
- 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: François Thomas de Vaux Target entity description: François Thomas de Vaux was a French naval officer who rose to the kingdom’s highest maritime rank as an Admiral of France.
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A.
Antoine de Caux
Antoine de Caux was a military commander known for leading forces during the Siege of Acre.
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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.
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.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
French naval officer
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Navy ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Admiral of France ⓘ |
| notableFor | rising to the kingdom’s highest maritime rank in France ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Admiral of France ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: François Thomas de Vaux Description of subject: François Thomas de Vaux was a French naval officer who rose to the kingdom’s highest maritime rank as an Admiral of France.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.