Raoul Salan
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Raoul Salan was a prominent French Army general known for his leadership in Indochina and Algeria and for later becoming a key figure in the anti-independence Organisation armée secrète (OAS).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raoul Salan canonical | 10 |
| Raoul Albin Louis Salan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5809282 — 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: Raoul Salan Context triple: [Battle of Na San, commander, Raoul Salan]
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A.
Jacques Carlu
Jacques Carlu was a French architect and designer best known for his influential Art Deco works in Paris and the United States.
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B.
Pierre-Roger Ducos
Pierre-Roger Ducos was a French revolutionary politician who served as one of the three provisional consuls alongside Napoleon Bonaparte following the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
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C.
François Thomas Tréhouart
François Thomas Tréhouart was a 19th-century French naval officer who rose to the highest rank in the French Navy and played a significant role in France’s maritime military history.
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D.
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath is a fictional, suave yet comically inept French secret agent best known as the protagonist of the OSS 117 spy parody films.
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E.
Guillaume d’Ornano
Guillaume d’Ornano was a French businessman and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the luxury cosmetics and perfume house Lancôme in the 1930s.
- 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: Raoul Salan Target entity description: Raoul Salan was a prominent French Army general known for his leadership in Indochina and Algeria and for later becoming a key figure in the anti-independence Organisation armée secrète (OAS).
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A.
Jacques Carlu
Jacques Carlu was a French architect and designer best known for his influential Art Deco works in Paris and the United States.
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B.
Pierre-Roger Ducos
Pierre-Roger Ducos was a French revolutionary politician who served as one of the three provisional consuls alongside Napoleon Bonaparte following the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
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C.
François Thomas Tréhouart
François Thomas Tréhouart was a 19th-century French naval officer who rose to the highest rank in the French Navy and played a significant role in France’s maritime military history.
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D.
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath is a fictional, suave yet comically inept French secret agent best known as the protagonist of the OSS 117 spy parody films.
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E.
Guillaume d’Ornano
Guillaume d’Ornano was a French businessman and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the luxury cosmetics and perfume house Lancôme in the 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Army general
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Croix de Guerre 1914–1918
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linked to:
Croix de Guerre
Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 ⓘ
linked to:
Croix de Guerre
Croix de Guerre des Théâtres d’Opérations Extérieures ⓘ Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur
|
| conflict |
Algerian War
ⓘ
linked to:
Algerian War of Independence
First Indochina War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| criminalCharge | treason (for role in Algiers putsch and OAS activities) ⓘ |
| educatedAt | École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr ⓘ |
| employer |
French government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of France
|
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Salan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military leadership ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Raoul ⓘ |
| hasNationality | French ⓘ |
| ideology |
French Algeria (anti-independence)
ⓘ
linked to:
French Algeria
|
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
French Army
ⓘ
Organisation armée secrète ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| movement | French colonialism ⓘ |
| name |
Raoul Albin Louis Salan
ⓘ
linked to:
Raoul Salan
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| notableEvent | involvement in the 1961 Algiers putsch against Charles de Gaulle ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command of French forces in Algeria during the Algerian War
ⓘ
command of French forces in Indochina after World War II ⓘ leadership in Algeria ⓘ leadership in French Indochina ⓘ leading figure of the OAS ⓘ resistance to decolonization policies of Charles de Gaulle ⓘ role in Organisation armée secrète ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| opposed | Algerian independence ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Algerian War
ⓘ
linked to:
Algerian War of Independence
First Indochina War ⓘ World War I ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Roquecourbe, Tarn, France ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Paris, France
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linked to:
Paris
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| positionHeld |
Commander-in-Chief in Algeria
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Commander-in-Chief in Indochina ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | French officer corps (career officer) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Raoul Salan Description of subject: Raoul Salan was a prominent French Army general known for his leadership in Indochina and Algeria and for later becoming a key figure in the anti-independence Organisation armée secrète (OAS).
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.