Maurice de Saxe
E344544
Maurice de Saxe was an 18th-century Marshal General of France and renowned military commander celebrated for his victories in the War of the Austrian Succession.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maurice de Saxe canonical | 30 |
| Maurice de Saxe, Marshal of France | 1 |
| de Saxe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3274778 — 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: Maurice de Saxe Context triple: [Battle of Fontenoy, commander, Maurice de Saxe]
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Duke of Villars
The Duke of Villars was a prominent French noble title most famously held by Marshal Claude Louis Hector de Villars, one of Louis XIV’s greatest military commanders during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Louis François, duc de Boufflers
Louis François, duc de Boufflers was a prominent French marshal and nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, noted for his skilled leadership in major conflicts of Louis XIV’s reign.
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C.
Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, was a renowned 17th-century French marshal and one of France’s greatest military commanders, celebrated for his strategic brilliance in the Thirty Years’ War and subsequent conflicts.
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D.
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, was a prominent French general and courtier under Louis XIV, remembered for his high noble status and several major military defeats during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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E.
Charles Ferdinand Latrille, Comte de Lorencez
Charles Ferdinand Latrille, Comte de Lorencez was a French general best known for leading the unsuccessful French assault against Mexican forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
- 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: Maurice de Saxe Target entity description: Maurice de Saxe was an 18th-century Marshal General of France and renowned military commander celebrated for his victories in the War of the Austrian Succession.
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A.
Duke of Villars
The Duke of Villars was a prominent French noble title most famously held by Marshal Claude Louis Hector de Villars, one of Louis XIV’s greatest military commanders during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
Louis François, duc de Boufflers
Louis François, duc de Boufflers was a prominent French marshal and nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, noted for his skilled leadership in major conflicts of Louis XIV’s reign.
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C.
Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne
Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, was a renowned 17th-century French marshal and one of France’s greatest military commanders, celebrated for his strategic brilliance in the Thirty Years’ War and subsequent conflicts.
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D.
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, was a prominent French general and courtier under Louis XIV, remembered for his high noble status and several major military defeats during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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E.
Charles Ferdinand Latrille, Comte de Lorencez
Charles Ferdinand Latrille, Comte de Lorencez was a French general best known for leading the unsuccessful French assault against Mexican forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Maurice de Saxe Description of subject: Maurice de Saxe was an 18th-century Marshal General of France and renowned military commander celebrated for his victories in the War of the Austrian Succession.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of Lauffeld
this entity surface form:
de Saxe
this entity surface form:
Maurice de Saxe, Marshal of France
subject surface form:
French line infantry