Soult
E449288
Soult is a French surname most famously associated with Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, a prominent marshal of France under Napoleon.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4528744 — 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 Context triple: [Nicolas Soult, familyName, Soult]
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A.
Manceau
Manceau is the French term used to refer to an inhabitant or native of the city of Le Mans.
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B.
Arno
The Arno is a major river in central Italy that flows through cities such as Florence and Pisa before emptying into the Ligurian Sea.
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C.
Arno
Arno is a settlement located on Arno Atoll in the Marshall Islands, known for its traditional Pacific island community and lagoon environment.
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D.
Rodrigue
Rodrigue is the French given name of Rod Gilbert, a famed Canadian professional ice hockey player and Hall of Famer.
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E.
Armant
Armant is a city in Egypt’s Luxor Governorate, known for its ancient Egyptian heritage and archaeological sites.
- 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 Target entity description: Soult is a French surname most famously associated with Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, a prominent marshal of France under Napoleon.
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A.
Manceau
Manceau is the French term used to refer to an inhabitant or native of the city of Le Mans.
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B.
Arno
The Arno is a major river in central Italy that flows through cities such as Florence and Pisa before emptying into the Ligurian Sea.
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C.
Arno
Arno is a settlement located on Arno Atoll in the Marshall Islands, known for its traditional Pacific island community and lagoon environment.
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D.
Rodrigue
Rodrigue is the French given name of Rod Gilbert, a famed Canadian professional ice hockey player and Hall of Famer.
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E.
Armant
Armant is a city in Egypt’s Luxor Governorate, known for its ancient Egyptian heritage and archaeological sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French military commander
ⓘ
French politician ⓘ French-language surname ⓘ Marshal of France ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| allegiance | First French Empire ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
First French Empire
Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| familyName | Soult ⓘ |
| givenName | Nicolas ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatia
ⓘ
Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult ⓘ
linked to:
Nicolas Soult
|
| hasSpellingVariant |
de Soult
ⓘ
linked to:
Soult
|
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Marshal of France ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Duke of Dalmatia ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Albuera
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Battle of Austerlitz ⓘ Peninsular War ⓘ |
| notableFor | service in the Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| occupation |
soldier
ⓘ
statesman ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Marshal of the Empire
ⓘ
Prime Minister of France ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Napoleon Bonaparte ⓘ |
| usedAsFamilyNameIn | France ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Soult is a French surname most famously associated with Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, a prominent marshal of France under Napoleon.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.