François-Michel Le Tellier
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François-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, was a powerful 17th-century French statesman who served as Louis XIV’s Secretary of State for War and was instrumental in modernizing and expanding the French army.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marquis de Louvois | 2 |
| François-Michel Le Tellier canonical | 1 |
| François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois | 1 |
| M. Le Tellier | 1 |
| Michel Le Tellier | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6445611 — 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: François-Michel Le Tellier Context triple: [Louvois, alsoKnownAs, François-Michel Le Tellier]
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Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne
Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne was an 18th-century French cardinal and statesman who served as Louis XVI’s finance minister and played a key role in the political crisis leading up to the French Revolution.
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Charles-François Lebrun
Charles-François Lebrun was a French statesman and jurist who served as one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s three Consuls and later became Duke of Piacenza under the First French Empire.
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François Fouquet
François Fouquet was a 17th-century French nobleman best known as the father of Nicolas Fouquet, the powerful Superintendent of Finances under Louis XIV.
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D.
François-Marie de Barthélemy
François-Marie de Barthélemy was a French diplomat and politician of the Revolutionary era, notably serving as a negotiator of key peace treaties and briefly as a Director of the French Republic.
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Étienne François de Choiseul
Étienne François de Choiseul was an influential 18th-century French statesman and diplomat who served as chief minister to King Louis XV and played a key role in shaping France’s foreign and military policy before the Revolution.
- 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: François-Michel Le Tellier Target entity description: François-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, was a powerful 17th-century French statesman who served as Louis XIV’s Secretary of State for War and was instrumental in modernizing and expanding the French army.
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A.
Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne
Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne was an 18th-century French cardinal and statesman who served as Louis XVI’s finance minister and played a key role in the political crisis leading up to the French Revolution.
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B.
Charles-François Lebrun
Charles-François Lebrun was a French statesman and jurist who served as one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s three Consuls and later became Duke of Piacenza under the First French Empire.
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C.
François Fouquet
François Fouquet was a 17th-century French nobleman best known as the father of Nicolas Fouquet, the powerful Superintendent of Finances under Louis XIV.
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D.
François-Marie de Barthélemy
François-Marie de Barthélemy was a French diplomat and politician of the Revolutionary era, notably serving as a negotiator of key peace treaties and briefly as a Director of the French Republic.
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E.
Étienne François de Choiseul
Étienne François de Choiseul was an influential 18th-century French statesman and diplomat who served as chief minister to King Louis XV and played a key role in shaping France’s foreign and military policy before the Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French statesman
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Secretary of State for War ⓘ government minister ⓘ human ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| activeIn | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Louvois
NERFINISHED
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Marquis de Louvois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | France ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1641-01-18 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Paris ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | apoplexy ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathCountry | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1691-07-16 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Versailles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Le Tellier family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Ancien Régime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Michel Le Tellier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military administration
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state administration ⓘ |
| implemented |
improvements in supply and provisioning of troops
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standardization of military equipment and uniforms ⓘ systematic recruitment and training of soldiers ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Jean-Baptiste Colbert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | French nobility ⓘ |
| monarchServed | Louis XIV of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | François-Michel Le Tellier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Marquis de Louvois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
centralization of military administration
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expansion of the French army ⓘ modernization of the French army ⓘ reforms of military logistics ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Minister of War
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Secretary of State for War of France ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | organization of French fortifications policy ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Louis XIV of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Anne de Souvré NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: François-Michel Le Tellier Description of subject: François-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, was a powerful 17th-century French statesman who served as Louis XIV’s Secretary of State for War and was instrumental in modernizing and expanding the French army.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois
this entity surface form:
Marquis de Louvois
this entity surface form:
Marquis de Louvois
this entity surface form:
M. Le Tellier