Directory (France)
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The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France from 1795 to 1799 during the later stages of the French Revolution, marked by political instability and corruption before being overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Directory (France) canonical | 3 |
| Directory of France | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T606434 — 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: Directory (France) Context triple: [National Convention, followedBy, Directory (France)]
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A.
Orange (France)
Orange is a historic town in southeastern France’s Vaucluse department, renowned for its well-preserved Roman theatre and triumphal arch, both UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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B.
Vichy
Vichy is a spa town in central France renowned for its thermal springs, health resorts, and role as the seat of the World War II Vichy regime.
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C.
Orly, Val-de-Marne
Orly, Val-de-Marne is a suburban commune in the southeastern outskirts of Paris, France, best known for hosting the major Paris-Orly international airport.
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D.
Saint-Cloud
Saint-Cloud is a commune just west of Paris, historically notable as the site where Napoleon Bonaparte staged the Coup of 18 Brumaire that ended the French Directory and ushered in his rule.
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E.
Fontainebleau, France
Fontainebleau, France is a historic town southeast of Paris best known for its vast forest and royal château, long associated with French monarchs and outdoor recreation.
- 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: Directory (France) Target entity description: The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France from 1795 to 1799 during the later stages of the French Revolution, marked by political instability and corruption before being overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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A.
Orange (France)
Orange is a historic town in southeastern France’s Vaucluse department, renowned for its well-preserved Roman theatre and triumphal arch, both UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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B.
Vichy
Vichy is a spa town in central France renowned for its thermal springs, health resorts, and role as the seat of the World War II Vichy regime.
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C.
Orly, Val-de-Marne
Orly, Val-de-Marne is a suburban commune in the southeastern outskirts of Paris, France, best known for hosting the major Paris-Orly international airport.
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D.
Saint-Cloud
Saint-Cloud is a commune just west of Paris, historically notable as the site where Napoleon Bonaparte staged the Coup of 18 Brumaire that ended the French Directory and ushered in his rule.
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E.
Fontainebleau, France
Fontainebleau, France is a historic town southeast of Paris best known for its vast forest and royal château, long associated with French monarchs and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Directory (France) Description of subject: The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France from 1795 to 1799 during the later stages of the French Revolution, marked by political instability and corruption before being overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Directory (France)