Bertrand du Guesclin
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Bertrand du Guesclin was a renowned 14th-century Breton knight and military commander who became Constable of France and a key leader in the Hundred Years' War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bertrand du Guesclin canonical | 17 |
| Bertrand du Guesclin (attributed in some traditions, though he died earlier) | 1 |
| du Guesclin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4940315 — 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: Bertrand du Guesclin Context triple: [Henry II of Castile, ally, Bertrand du Guesclin]
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André de Foix
André de Foix was a 16th-century French military commander and nobleman best known for leading French forces in campaigns to restore Navarre, including the ill-fated expedition culminating in the Battle of Pamplona.
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B.
Jean d’Orléans, Count of Dunois
Jean d’Orléans, Count of Dunois, was a prominent French military commander and illegitimate son of the Duke of Orléans who played a key role in the Hundred Years’ War, notably in the campaigns alongside Joan of Arc.
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C.
Louis II de la Trémoille
Louis II de la Trémoille was a prominent early 16th-century French nobleman and military commander who served the French crown in the Italian Wars until his death in battle.
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D.
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne was an 18th-century French nobleman and military officer from the prominent La Tour d’Auvergne family, noted for his high rank and influence at the royal court.
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E.
Jacques de La Palice
Jacques de La Palice was a prominent early 16th-century French nobleman and military leader known for his service in the Italian Wars.
- 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: Bertrand du Guesclin Target entity description: Bertrand du Guesclin was a renowned 14th-century Breton knight and military commander who became Constable of France and a key leader in the Hundred Years' War.
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A.
André de Foix
André de Foix was a 16th-century French military commander and nobleman best known for leading French forces in campaigns to restore Navarre, including the ill-fated expedition culminating in the Battle of Pamplona.
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B.
Jean d’Orléans, Count of Dunois
Jean d’Orléans, Count of Dunois, was a prominent French military commander and illegitimate son of the Duke of Orléans who played a key role in the Hundred Years’ War, notably in the campaigns alongside Joan of Arc.
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C.
Louis II de la Trémoille
Louis II de la Trémoille was a prominent early 16th-century French nobleman and military commander who served the French crown in the Italian Wars until his death in battle.
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D.
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne
Louis Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne was an 18th-century French nobleman and military officer from the prominent La Tour d’Auvergne family, noted for his high rank and influence at the royal court.
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E.
Jacques de La Palice
Jacques de La Palice was a prominent early 16th-century French nobleman and military leader known for his service in the Italian Wars.
- 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: Bertrand du Guesclin Description of subject: Bertrand du Guesclin was a renowned 14th-century Breton knight and military commander who became Constable of France and a key leader in the Hundred Years' War.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Battle of Najera
subject linked to:
Battle of Najera
subject linked to:
Battle of Najera
Battle of Aljubarrota
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commander
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Bertrand du Guesclin (attributed in some traditions, though he died earlier)
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linked to: Bertrand du Guesclin
linked to: Bertrand du Guesclin