Soult commanded French forces
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Soult commanded French forces refers to Marshal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, a prominent French military leader and one of Napoleon’s most capable marshals during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marshal Soult commanded the French army | 1 |
| Soult commanded French forces canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4255900 — 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: Soult commanded French forces Context triple: [Battle of Orthez, hasCommanderRole, Soult commanded French forces]
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A.
Marshal Saint-Arnaud
Marshal Saint-Arnaud was a 19th-century French Army officer and Minister of War best known for commanding French forces during the early stages of the Crimean War.
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B.
Marshal Bertrand Clausel
Marshal Bertrand Clausel was a French military leader and marshal of the First French Empire who distinguished himself in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly on the Iberian Peninsula.
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C.
General Pierre de Villiers
General Pierre de Villiers is a French Army officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff and played a leading role in modern French military operations, including counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel.
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D.
Marshal Boufflers
Marshal Boufflers was a prominent French general and marshal of France under Louis XIV, noted for his skilled defensive leadership in major late 17th-century European conflicts.
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E.
French Reille’s corps
French Reille’s corps was a major French army formation under General Honoré Reille during the Waterloo campaign, playing a key role in Napoleon’s operations in 1815.
- 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: Soult commanded French forces Target entity description: Soult commanded French forces refers to Marshal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, a prominent French military leader and one of Napoleon’s most capable marshals during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
Marshal Saint-Arnaud
Marshal Saint-Arnaud was a 19th-century French Army officer and Minister of War best known for commanding French forces during the early stages of the Crimean War.
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B.
Marshal Bertrand Clausel
Marshal Bertrand Clausel was a French military leader and marshal of the First French Empire who distinguished himself in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly on the Iberian Peninsula.
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C.
General Pierre de Villiers
General Pierre de Villiers is a French Army officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff and played a leading role in modern French military operations, including counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel.
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D.
Marshal Boufflers
Marshal Boufflers was a prominent French general and marshal of France under Louis XIV, noted for his skilled defensive leadership in major late 17th-century European conflicts.
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E.
French Reille’s corps
French Reille’s corps was a major French army formation under General Honoré Reille during the Waterloo campaign, playing a key role in Napoleon’s operations in 1815.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Soult commanded French forces Description of subject: Soult commanded French forces refers to Marshal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, a prominent French military leader and one of Napoleon’s most capable marshals during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Battle of Orthes
linked to: Soult commanded French forces