Duke of Elchingen
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Emperor of the French
French ducal title
French military commander
Marshal of the Empire
battle
human
noble title
The Duke of Elchingen was the Napoleonic noble title held by Marshal Michel Ney, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most famous and celebrated military commanders.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke of Elchingen canonical | 4 |
| Duc d’Elchingen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5242872 — 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: Duke of Elchingen Context triple: [Michel Ney, nobleTitle, Duke of Elchingen]
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Duke of Jägerndorf
The Duke of Jägerndorf is a historical noble title associated with the region of Jägerndorf (Krnov) in Silesia, traditionally held by members of European aristocracy.
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Duke of Leuchtenberg
The Duke of Leuchtenberg was a hereditary noble title in the Bavarian peerage created in the 19th century for Eugène de Beauharnais, Napoleon I’s stepson, and later borne by his descendants.
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Duke of Weissenfels
The Duke of Weissenfels was a Saxon noble and military leader who commanded Saxon forces against Prussia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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D.
Duke of Carinthia
The Duke of Carinthia was a medieval noble title associated with the rule of the historical Carinthia region in Central Europe, often held by prominent dynasties and occasionally by reigning kings.
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E.
Duke of Bavaria
Duke of Bavaria was the hereditary sovereign title held by the rulers of the Bavarian duchy within the Holy Roman Empire and later the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- 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: Duke of Elchingen Target entity description: The Duke of Elchingen was the Napoleonic noble title held by Marshal Michel Ney, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most famous and celebrated military commanders.
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A.
Duke of Jägerndorf
The Duke of Jägerndorf is a historical noble title associated with the region of Jägerndorf (Krnov) in Silesia, traditionally held by members of European aristocracy.
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B.
Duke of Leuchtenberg
The Duke of Leuchtenberg was a hereditary noble title in the Bavarian peerage created in the 19th century for Eugène de Beauharnais, Napoleon I’s stepson, and later borne by his descendants.
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C.
Duke of Weissenfels
The Duke of Weissenfels was a Saxon noble and military leader who commanded Saxon forces against Prussia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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D.
Duke of Carinthia
The Duke of Carinthia was a medieval noble title associated with the rule of the historical Carinthia region in Central Europe, often held by prominent dynasties and occasionally by reigning kings.
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E.
Duke of Bavaria
Duke of Bavaria was the hereditary sovereign title held by the rulers of the Bavarian duchy within the Holy Roman Empire and later the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Duke of Elchingen Description of subject: The Duke of Elchingen was the Napoleonic noble title held by Marshal Michel Ney, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most famous and celebrated military commanders.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.