Directory
E19720
The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Directory canonical | 7 |
| Directory period | 2 |
| Directory (executive) | 1 |
| Directory regime | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T162367 — 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 Context triple: [French Revolution, legislativeBody, Directory]
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A.
Dictionary Department
The Dictionary Department is the division of the Royal Spanish Academy responsible for researching, updating, and producing its official dictionaries of the Spanish language.
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B.
People
People is a widely read American weekly magazine focusing on celebrity news, human-interest stories, and popular culture.
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C.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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D.
Google Contacts
Google Contacts is a contact management service by Google that stores and syncs users’ personal and professional contact information across Google’s apps and devices.
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E.
DDI
DDI is the abbreviation for the Directorate of Digital Innovation, a CIA directorate focused on advancing the agency’s digital and cyber capabilities.
- 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 Target entity description: The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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A.
Dictionary Department
The Dictionary Department is the division of the Royal Spanish Academy responsible for researching, updating, and producing its official dictionaries of the Spanish language.
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B.
People
People is a widely read American weekly magazine focusing on celebrity news, human-interest stories, and popular culture.
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C.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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D.
Google Contacts
Google Contacts is a contact management service by Google that stores and syncs users’ personal and professional contact information across Google’s apps and devices.
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E.
DDI
DDI is the abbreviation for the Directorate of Digital Innovation, a CIA directorate focused on advancing the agency’s digital and cyber capabilities.
- 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 Description of subject: The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Directory regime
this entity surface form:
Directory period
this entity surface form:
Directory (executive)
this entity surface form:
Directory period