French VIII Corps
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The French VIII Corps was a major field formation of Napoleon's Grande Armée that fought in several key campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| French VIII Corps canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7823038 — 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: French VIII Corps Context triple: [Battle of Dürenstein, involvedUnit, French VIII Corps]
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A.
French Ninth Army
The French Ninth Army was a field army of the French Army in World War II that played a key defensive role during the German invasion of France in 1940.
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B.
British XII Corps
The British XII Corps was a field corps of the British Army that served as a major operational formation on the Western Front during the First World War.
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C.
Union VIII Corps
Union VIII Corps was a Union Army corps-level formation in the American Civil War, active primarily in the Middle Department and involved in the defense of Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas.
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D.
French 3rd Army
The French 3rd Army was a major field army of France that played key defensive and offensive roles on the Western Front during both World Wars.
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E.
British V Corps
British V Corps was a major British Army corps-level formation that saw significant combat service during both World War I and World War II, particularly in the Mediterranean and European theaters.
- 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: French VIII Corps Target entity description: The French VIII Corps was a major field formation of Napoleon's Grande Armée that fought in several key campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
French Ninth Army
The French Ninth Army was a field army of the French Army in World War II that played a key defensive role during the German invasion of France in 1940.
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B.
British XII Corps
The British XII Corps was a field corps of the British Army that served as a major operational formation on the Western Front during the First World War.
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C.
Union VIII Corps
Union VIII Corps was a Union Army corps-level formation in the American Civil War, active primarily in the Middle Department and involved in the defense of Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas.
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D.
French 3rd Army
The French 3rd Army was a major field army of France that played key defensive and offensive roles on the Western Front during both World Wars.
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E.
British V Corps
British V Corps was a major British Army corps-level formation that saw significant combat service during both World War I and World War II, particularly in the Mediterranean and European theaters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: French VIII Corps Description of subject: The French VIII Corps was a major field formation of Napoleon's Grande Armée that fought in several key campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.