Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr
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Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr was a prominent French marshal and military strategist of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his disciplined leadership and tactical skill.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 8 |
| Gouvion Saint-Cyr | 1 |
| Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7395736 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr Context triple: [Siege of Ragusa (1806), commander, Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr]
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Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian War.
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Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume
Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume was a prominent French naval officer and admiral who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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Barthélemy Catherine Joubert
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert was a French Revolutionary general noted for his rapid rise through the ranks and his distinguished service in Italy before being killed in battle at a young age.
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D.
Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud
Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud was a French Marshal and Minister of War best known for commanding French forces during the early stages of the Crimean War.
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E.
François Étienne de Kellermann
François Étienne de Kellermann was a French cavalry general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his decisive charge that helped secure Napoleon’s victory at the Battle of Marengo.
- 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: Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr Target entity description: Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr was a prominent French marshal and military strategist of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his disciplined leadership and tactical skill.
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A.
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian War.
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B.
Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume
Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume was a prominent French naval officer and admiral who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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C.
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert was a French Revolutionary general noted for his rapid rise through the ranks and his distinguished service in Italy before being killed in battle at a young age.
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D.
Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud
Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud was a French Marshal and Minister of War best known for commanding French forces during the early stages of the Crimean War.
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E.
François Étienne de Kellermann
François Étienne de Kellermann was a French cavalry general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his decisive charge that helped secure Napoleon’s victory at the Battle of Marengo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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.
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Subject: Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr Description of subject: Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr was a prominent French marshal and military strategist of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his disciplined leadership and tactical skill.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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