Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages
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Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages, was an 18th-century Walloon-born Spanish general who distinguished himself as a leading commander in the War of the Austrian Succession.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5506906 — 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: Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages Context triple: [Battle of Campo Santo, commander, Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages]
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A.
François de Créquy
François de Créquy was a 17th-century French nobleman and marshal of France known for commanding royal armies in several major conflicts under Louis XIV.
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B.
François de Palassou
François de Palassou was an 18th-century French geologist and mountaineer known for his pioneering explorations and studies in the Pyrenees.
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C.
Fernand de Langle de Cary
Fernand de Langle de Cary was a French general of the First World War who commanded major field armies in the early Western Front campaigns, including the 4th Army during the 1914 operations in the Ardennes.
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D.
Jean de Gastines
Jean de Gastines is a French architect best known for co-designing the contemporary art museum Centre Pompidou-Metz.
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E.
Baron de La Brède
Baron de La Brède is the French noble title held by Charles-Louis de Secondat, better known as Montesquieu, the influential Enlightenment political philosopher.
- 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: Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages Target entity description: Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages, was an 18th-century Walloon-born Spanish general who distinguished himself as a leading commander in the War of the Austrian Succession.
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A.
François de Créquy
François de Créquy was a 17th-century French nobleman and marshal of France known for commanding royal armies in several major conflicts under Louis XIV.
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B.
François de Palassou
François de Palassou was an 18th-century French geologist and mountaineer known for his pioneering explorations and studies in the Pyrenees.
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C.
Fernand de Langle de Cary
Fernand de Langle de Cary was a French general of the First World War who commanded major field armies in the early Western Front campaigns, including the 4th Army during the 1914 operations in the Ardennes.
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D.
Jean de Gastines
Jean de Gastines is a French architect best known for co-designing the contemporary art museum Centre Pompidou-Metz.
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E.
Baron de La Brède
Baron de La Brède is the French noble title held by Charles-Louis de Secondat, better known as Montesquieu, the influential Enlightenment political philosopher.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century person
ⓘ
human ⓘ military commander ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Spain
ⓘ
Spanish Crown ⓘ
linked to:
Crown of Spain
|
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| conflict | War of the Austrian Succession ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Walloon
ⓘ
linked to:
Walloon language
|
| familyName | du Mont ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean Thierry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Spanish Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
comte de Gages
ⓘ
count ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Walloon-born officer in Spanish service
ⓘ
service as a leading Spanish commander in the War of the Austrian Succession ⓘ |
| notableWork | command in the War of the Austrian Succession ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | War of the Austrian Succession ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Spanish general ⓘ |
| residence | Spain ⓘ |
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: Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages Description of subject: Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages, was an 18th-century Walloon-born Spanish general who distinguished himself as a leading commander in the War of the Austrian Succession.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.