Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
E149964
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1183639 — 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: Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot Context triple: [Franco-Prussian War, militaryCommander, Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot]
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A.
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert was a French Revolutionary general noted for his rapid rise through the ranks and his distinguished service in Italy before being killed in battle at a young age.
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B.
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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C.
Patrice de MacMahon
Patrice de MacMahon was a 19th-century French army marshal and conservative statesman who served as President of the French Third Republic from 1873 to 1879.
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D.
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was a prominent French Army general of World War II who became one of France’s most celebrated military leaders and represented the country at the German Instrument of Surrender in 1945.
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E.
Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny
Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny was a French Army officer and the only son of Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, killed in action during the First Indochina War and later symbolizing the sacrifice of France’s postwar generation.
- 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: Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot Target entity description: Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian War.
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A.
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert was a French Revolutionary general noted for his rapid rise through the ranks and his distinguished service in Italy before being killed in battle at a young age.
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B.
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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C.
Patrice de MacMahon
Patrice de MacMahon was a 19th-century French army marshal and conservative statesman who served as President of the French Third Republic from 1873 to 1879.
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D.
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was a prominent French Army general of World War II who became one of France’s most celebrated military leaders and represented the country at the German Instrument of Surrender in 1945.
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E.
Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny
Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny was a French Army officer and the only son of Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, killed in action during the First Indochina War and later symbolizing the sacrifice of France’s postwar generation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French general
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| familyName | Ducrot ⓘ |
| givenName | Auguste-Alexandre ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership during the Franco-Prussian War ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Franco-Prussian War ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot Description of subject: Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.