Jean François Leval
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Jean François Leval was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars who led troops in several key campaigns, including in the Peninsular War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean François Leval canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9281901 — 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: Jean François Leval Context triple: [Battle of Barrosa, commander, Jean François Leval]
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Jean-Baptiste Thierrée
Jean-Baptiste Thierrée is a French actor and circus performer best known as the co-founder, with Victoria Chaplin, of the influential contemporary circus company Le Cirque Invisible.
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B.
Jean Casimir-Perier
Jean Casimir-Perier was a French statesman who briefly served as President of the French Third Republic in the 1890s before resigning amid political turmoil.
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C.
Charles Delescluze
Charles Delescluze was a French revolutionary journalist and politician who became a prominent radical figure during the 19th century and played a key role in the Paris Commune of 1871.
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D.
Jacques Cathelineau
Jacques Cathelineau was a French royalist leader and devout Catholic peasant who became one of the principal chiefs of the counter-revolutionary forces during the War in the Vendée in the French Revolution.
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E.
Louis Blanc
Louis Blanc is a Paris Métro station in the 10th arrondissement that serves as an interchange between lines 7 and 7bis.
- 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: Jean François Leval Target entity description: Jean François Leval was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars who led troops in several key campaigns, including in the Peninsular War.
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A.
Jean-Baptiste Thierrée
Jean-Baptiste Thierrée is a French actor and circus performer best known as the co-founder, with Victoria Chaplin, of the influential contemporary circus company Le Cirque Invisible.
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B.
Jean Casimir-Perier
Jean Casimir-Perier was a French statesman who briefly served as President of the French Third Republic in the 1890s before resigning amid political turmoil.
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C.
Charles Delescluze
Charles Delescluze was a French revolutionary journalist and politician who became a prominent radical figure during the 19th century and played a key role in the Paris Commune of 1871.
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D.
Jacques Cathelineau
Jacques Cathelineau was a French royalist leader and devout Catholic peasant who became one of the principal chiefs of the counter-revolutionary forces during the War in the Vendée in the French Revolution.
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E.
Louis Blanc
Louis Blanc is a Paris Métro station in the 10th arrondissement that serves as an interchange between lines 7 and 7bis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
French general
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Napoleonic Wars general ⓘ person ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| era | Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| ledTroopsIn |
Peninsular War campaigns
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key campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding French troops in the Peninsular War
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serving as a general under Napoleon I ⓘ |
| occupation | general ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Napoleonic Wars
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Peninsular War ⓘ |
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: Jean François Leval Description of subject: Jean François Leval was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars who led troops in several key campaigns, including in the Peninsular War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.