Henri Guisan
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Henri Guisan was a Swiss general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces during World War II and for symbolizing Swiss resistance and national unity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henri Guisan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5858841 — 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: Henri Guisan Context triple: [Quai du Général-Guisan, namedAfter, Henri Guisan]
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A.
Charles Jonnart
Charles Jonnart was a French politician and statesman of the Third Republic, known for his ministerial roles and influence in centrist republican politics.
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B.
Jacques Mornard
Jacques Mornard was an alias used by Ramón Mercader, the Spanish communist who assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1940.
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C.
Edouard Bugnion
Edouard Bugnion is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief architect of VMware, a pioneering company in virtualization technology.
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D.
Geraud Brisson
Geraud Brisson is a film editor known for his work on the movie "CODA."
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E.
François-Xavier Gautrelet
François-Xavier Gautrelet was a 19th-century French Jesuit priest best known for initiating the spiritual movement that became the worldwide Apostleship of Prayer.
- 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: Henri Guisan Target entity description: Henri Guisan was a Swiss general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces during World War II and for symbolizing Swiss resistance and national unity.
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A.
Charles Jonnart
Charles Jonnart was a French politician and statesman of the Third Republic, known for his ministerial roles and influence in centrist republican politics.
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B.
Jacques Mornard
Jacques Mornard was an alias used by Ramón Mercader, the Spanish communist who assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1940.
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C.
Edouard Bugnion
Edouard Bugnion is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief architect of VMware, a pioneering company in virtualization technology.
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D.
Geraud Brisson
Geraud Brisson is a film editor known for his work on the movie "CODA."
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E.
François-Xavier Gautrelet
François-Xavier Gautrelet was a 19th-century French Jesuit priest best known for initiating the spiritual movement that became the worldwide Apostleship of Prayer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Commander-in-Chief
ⓘ
Swiss military officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur
Order of the Bath ⓘ Order of the Sword ⓘ Order of the White Lion ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Pully, Vaud, Switzerland
ⓘ
linked to:
Pully, Switzerland
|
| commemoratedBy | Swiss postage stamps ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1874-10-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1960-04-07 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | historical records of Switzerland in World War II ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
ⓘ
linked to:
ETH Zurich
École spéciale de Lausanne ⓘ |
| familyName | Guisan ⓘ |
| givenName | Henri ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Swiss ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | General Guisan ⓘ |
| hasMemorial |
Guisanplatz in Bern
ⓘ
linked to:
Guisanplatz
equestrian statue in Lausanne ⓘ |
| influenced | Swiss defense policy during World War II ⓘ |
| knownFor | Réduit National defensive strategy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| memberOf | Swiss Army ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Swiss Armed Forces ⓘ |
| militaryRank | General ⓘ |
| movement | Swiss national resistance (World War II) ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces during World War II
ⓘ
symbol of Swiss national unity ⓘ symbol of Swiss resistance ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmer
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| partOf | Swiss military history ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mézières, Vaud, Switzerland ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Pully, Vaud, Switzerland
ⓘ
linked to:
Pully, Switzerland
|
| politicalAlignment | Swiss patriotism ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces
ⓘ
General of the Swiss Army ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
|
| residence |
Vaud, Switzerland
ⓘ
linked to:
Vaud
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Bern, Switzerland
ⓘ
Vaud, Switzerland ⓘ
linked to:
Vaud
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Henri Guisan Description of subject: Henri Guisan was a Swiss general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Armed Forces during World War II and for symbolizing Swiss resistance and national unity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.