Louis-Nicolas d’Avout
E504633
Louis-Nicolas d’Avout was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic era, renowned for his strict discipline, tactical brilliance, and decisive victories such as the Battle of Auerstädt.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Louis-Nicolas | 2 |
| Louis-Nicolas d’Avout canonical | 2 |
| Louis-Nicolas d'Avout | 1 |
| Louis-Nicolas d’Avoust | 1 |
| Louis-Nicolas d’Avout de Thionville de Roche-Fort | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5034649 — 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: Louis-Nicolas d’Avout Context triple: [Louis-Nicolas Davout, fullName, Louis-Nicolas d’Avout]
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A.
Louis-Nicolas de Clerville
Louis-Nicolas de Clerville was a 17th-century French military engineer and architect known for designing major fortifications and infrastructure projects under Louis XIV.
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B.
Albert de Franqueville
Albert de Franqueville was a 19th-century mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Aneto, the highest peak in the Pyrenees.
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C.
Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his decorative ceiling and religious works, and for helping transition French art toward the Rococo style.
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D.
Jean-Baptiste Baille
Jean-Baptiste Baille was a 19th-century French physicist and close friend of Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola, known for his contributions to optics and his role in the intellectual circle of Aix-en-Provence.
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E.
François-Alexandre Duquesney
François-Alexandre Duquesney was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing Paris’s Gare de l'Est railway station.
- 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: Louis-Nicolas d’Avout Target entity description: Louis-Nicolas d’Avout was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic era, renowned for his strict discipline, tactical brilliance, and decisive victories such as the Battle of Auerstädt.
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A.
Louis-Nicolas de Clerville
Louis-Nicolas de Clerville was a 17th-century French military engineer and architect known for designing major fortifications and infrastructure projects under Louis XIV.
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B.
Albert de Franqueville
Albert de Franqueville was a 19th-century mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Aneto, the highest peak in the Pyrenees.
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C.
Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his decorative ceiling and religious works, and for helping transition French art toward the Rococo style.
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D.
Jean-Baptiste Baille
Jean-Baptiste Baille was a 19th-century French physicist and close friend of Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola, known for his contributions to optics and his role in the intellectual circle of Aix-en-Provence.
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E.
François-Alexandre Duquesney
François-Alexandre Duquesney was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing Paris’s Gare de l'Est railway station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Louis-Nicolas d’Avout Description of subject: Louis-Nicolas d’Avout was a prominent French marshal of the Napoleonic era, renowned for his strict discipline, tactical brilliance, and decisive victories such as the Battle of Auerstädt.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Louis-Nicolas d’Avout
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The Iron Marshal
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