d’Avout
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d’Avout is the French noble family name borne by Louis-Nicolas Davout, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most capable marshals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| d’Avout canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5034651 — 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: d’Avout Context triple: [Louis-Nicolas Davout, familyName, d’Avout]
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A.
Damphreux
Damphreux is a small municipality in the Ajoie region of the canton of Jura in northwestern Switzerland.
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B.
Sombreffe
Sombreffe is a municipality in the Walloon region of Belgium, historically notable for its proximity to key Napoleonic battlefields, including Ligny and Quatre Bras.
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C.
Damogran
Damogran is a remote, sparsely inhabited planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," notable as the secret construction site of the revolutionary starship Heart of Gold.
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D.
Dagmaer
Dagmaer is a given name, likely a variant of the Scandinavian name Dagmar, used as a personal feminine first name.
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E.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois refers to a person from the city of Auxerre in France, and by extension can also denote things associated with that city.
- 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: d’Avout Target entity description: d’Avout is the French noble family name borne by Louis-Nicolas Davout, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most capable marshals.
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A.
Damphreux
Damphreux is a small municipality in the Ajoie region of the canton of Jura in northwestern Switzerland.
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B.
Sombreffe
Sombreffe is a municipality in the Walloon region of Belgium, historically notable for its proximity to key Napoleonic battlefields, including Ligny and Quatre Bras.
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C.
Damogran
Damogran is a remote, sparsely inhabited planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," notable as the secret construction site of the revolutionary starship Heart of Gold.
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D.
Dagmaer
Dagmaer is a given name, likely a variant of the Scandinavian name Dagmar, used as a personal feminine first name.
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E.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois refers to a person from the city of Auxerre in France, and by extension can also denote things associated with that city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French noble family name
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family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
First French Empire
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French nobility ⓘ Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| category | French-language surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| etymologyStatus | uncertain ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | patrilineal family name ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Davout ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfProminence |
early 19th century
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late 18th century ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| linkedToDynastyOrRegime |
Napoleonic Empire
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linked to:
First French Empire
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| linkedToHistoricalFigureRole | Marshal of the Empire ⓘ |
| nameType | hereditary surname ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Louis-Nicolas Davout ⓘ |
| usedBy | Louis-Nicolas Davout ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
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linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: d’Avout Description of subject: d’Avout is the French noble family name borne by Louis-Nicolas Davout, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most capable marshals.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.