Louis Desaix
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Louis Desaix was a prominent French general of the Revolutionary era, renowned for his campaigns in Italy and Egypt and his decisive role in Napoleon Bonaparte’s early military successes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Louis Desaix canonical | 12 |
| Louis Charles Antoine Desaix | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T496078 — 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: Louis Desaix Context triple: [Battle of the Nile, commander, Louis Desaix]
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Jacques François Dugommier
Jacques François Dugommier was a French Revolutionary general noted for his decisive leadership in several key campaigns, including the early victories of the Revolutionary Wars.
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B.
Marshal Boufflers
Marshal Boufflers was a prominent French general and marshal of France under Louis XIV, noted for his skilled defensive leadership in major late 17th-century European conflicts.
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C.
François Certain Canrobert
François Certain Canrobert was a 19th-century French Army marshal who gained prominence for leading French forces during the Crimean War.
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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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E.
Jacques-François Menou
Jacques-François Menou was a French general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, best known for commanding French forces in Egypt after Napoleon’s departure.
- 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: Louis Desaix Target entity description: Louis Desaix was a prominent French general of the Revolutionary era, renowned for his campaigns in Italy and Egypt and his decisive role in Napoleon Bonaparte’s early military successes.
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A.
Jacques François Dugommier
Jacques François Dugommier was a French Revolutionary general noted for his decisive leadership in several key campaigns, including the early victories of the Revolutionary Wars.
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B.
Marshal Boufflers
Marshal Boufflers was a prominent French general and marshal of France under Louis XIV, noted for his skilled defensive leadership in major late 17th-century European conflicts.
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C.
François Certain Canrobert
François Certain Canrobert was a 19th-century French Army marshal who gained prominence for leading French forces during the Crimean War.
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D.
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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E.
Jacques-François Menou
Jacques-François Menou was a French general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, best known for commanding French forces in Egypt after Napoleon’s departure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Louis Desaix Description of subject: Louis Desaix was a prominent French general of the Revolutionary era, renowned for his campaigns in Italy and Egypt and his decisive role in Napoleon Bonaparte’s early military successes.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Louis Desaix
subject linked to:
Place Desaix, Paris
subject linked to:
Place Desaix, Paris