Georges Washington de Lafayette
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Georges Washington de Lafayette was the son of the famed French Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette, who served as a French military officer and politician during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Georges Washington de La Fayette | 3 |
| Georges Washington de Lafayette canonical | 1 |
| de Lafayette | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T554152 — 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: Georges Washington de Lafayette Context triple: [Marquis de Lafayette, parentOf, Georges Washington de Lafayette]
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Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key ally of the American Revolution and later an influential figure in the French Revolution.
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Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, was a French nobleman and general whose leadership of French forces in North America was crucial to the allied victory over Britain, particularly at the Siege of Yorktown.
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Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
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Henry Knox
Henry Knox was an American Revolutionary War general who served as George Washington’s chief artillery officer and later became the first U.S. Secretary of War.
- 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: Georges Washington de Lafayette Target entity description: Georges Washington de Lafayette was the son of the famed French Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette, who served as a French military officer and politician during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era.
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A.
Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key ally of the American Revolution and later an influential figure in the French Revolution.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, was a French nobleman and general whose leadership of French forces in North America was crucial to the allied victory over Britain, particularly at the Siege of Yorktown.
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C.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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D.
Nicholas Bayard
Nicholas Bayard was a prominent 17th-century New York colonial official and landowner, known for his influential role in early New Amsterdam politics and society.
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E.
Henry Knox
Henry Knox was an American Revolutionary War general who served as George Washington’s chief artillery officer and later became the first U.S. Secretary of War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: Georges Washington de Lafayette Description of subject: Georges Washington de Lafayette was the son of the famed French Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette, who served as a French military officer and politician during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Georges Washington de Lafayette
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Georges Washington de Lafayette
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this entity surface form:
de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Georges Washington de La Fayette
this entity surface form:
Georges Washington de La Fayette
this entity surface form:
Georges Washington de La Fayette