Louis-Nicolas Davout
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Louis-Nicolas Davout was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his strict discipline, tactical brilliance, and decisive victories against larger enemy forces.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Louis-Nicolas Davout canonical | 39 |
| Marshal Davout | 3 |
| Davout | 1 |
| French marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout | 1 |
| Louis Davout | 1 |
| Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T842373 — 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-Nicolas Davout Context triple: [Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, commander, Louis-Nicolas Davout]
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Nicolas Soult
Nicolas Soult was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic era, renowned for his strategic skill and key role in many of Napoleon’s major campaigns.
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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher was a Prussian field marshal renowned for his aggressive leadership and decisive role alongside Wellington in defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
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Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier was a French marshal and Napoleon Bonaparte’s indispensable chief of staff, renowned for his organizational genius in coordinating the Grande Armée’s campaigns.
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D.
Jean Lannes
Jean Lannes was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his aggressive leadership and key role in many of Napoleon’s major victories.
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E.
André Masséna
André Masséna was a prominent French military commander and one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most celebrated marshals, renowned for his strategic skill during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- 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-Nicolas Davout Target entity description: Louis-Nicolas Davout was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his strict discipline, tactical brilliance, and decisive victories against larger enemy forces.
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A.
Nicolas Soult
Nicolas Soult was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic era, renowned for his strategic skill and key role in many of Napoleon’s major campaigns.
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B.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher was a Prussian field marshal renowned for his aggressive leadership and decisive role alongside Wellington in defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
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C.
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier was a French marshal and Napoleon Bonaparte’s indispensable chief of staff, renowned for his organizational genius in coordinating the Grande Armée’s campaigns.
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D.
Jean Lannes
Jean Lannes was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his aggressive leadership and key role in many of Napoleon’s major victories.
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E.
André Masséna
André Masséna was a prominent French military commander and one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most celebrated marshals, renowned for his strategic skill during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Louis-Nicolas Davout Description of subject: Louis-Nicolas Davout was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his strict discipline, tactical brilliance, and decisive victories against larger enemy forces.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Battle of Smolensk
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I Corps
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