Roger de Damas
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Roger de Damas was a French royalist general and émigré officer who served in various European armies during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, notably commanding Neapolitan forces against Napoleon’s troops.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger de Damas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7359398 — 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: Roger de Damas Context triple: [French invasion of Naples (1806), commander, Roger de Damas]
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Guido de Brès
Guido de Brès was a 16th-century Reformed theologian and Protestant martyr from the Low Countries, best known for shaping early Calvinist doctrine and dying for his faith during the Spanish persecution.
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B.
Raymond of Saint-Gilles
Raymond of Saint-Gilles was a powerful 11th–12th century French nobleman, Count of Toulouse and a prominent leader of the First Crusade.
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C.
James de Salis
James de Salis was a mountaineer known for being among the earliest climbers to reach the summit of Mexico’s Iztaccíhuatl volcano.
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D.
Roland of Siena
Roland of Siena, later known as Pope Alexander III, was a 12th-century pope noted for his conflicts with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his role in the development of canon law.
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E.
Amelius Gentilianus
Amelius Gentilianus was a 3rd-century Neoplatonist philosopher and prominent disciple of Plotinus, known for his extensive commentaries and efforts to systematize his teacher’s thought.
- 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: Roger de Damas Target entity description: Roger de Damas was a French royalist general and émigré officer who served in various European armies during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, notably commanding Neapolitan forces against Napoleon’s troops.
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A.
Guido de Brès
Guido de Brès was a 16th-century Reformed theologian and Protestant martyr from the Low Countries, best known for shaping early Calvinist doctrine and dying for his faith during the Spanish persecution.
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B.
Raymond of Saint-Gilles
Raymond of Saint-Gilles was a powerful 11th–12th century French nobleman, Count of Toulouse and a prominent leader of the First Crusade.
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C.
James de Salis
James de Salis was a mountaineer known for being among the earliest climbers to reach the summit of Mexico’s Iztaccíhuatl volcano.
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D.
Roland of Siena
Roland of Siena, later known as Pope Alexander III, was a 12th-century pope noted for his conflicts with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his role in the development of canon law.
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E.
Amelius Gentilianus
Amelius Gentilianus was a 3rd-century Neoplatonist philosopher and prominent disciple of Plotinus, known for his extensive commentaries and efforts to systematize his teacher’s thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French general
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human ⓘ royalist ⓘ émigré officer ⓘ |
| activity |
military leadership
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service as an émigré officer in foreign armies ⓘ |
| allegiance |
French royalist cause
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Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | royalism ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Royal Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding Neapolitan forces against Napoleonic troops
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service in various European armies as a French royalist émigré ⓘ |
| opposed |
French Revolutionary government
NERFINISHED
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Napoleon I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
French Revolutionary Wars
NERFINISHED
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Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| role |
commander of Neapolitan forces
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general ⓘ |
| servedIn | Army of the Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Roger de Damas Description of subject: Roger de Damas was a French royalist general and émigré officer who served in various European armies during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, notably commanding Neapolitan forces against Napoleon’s troops.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.