Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald
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Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald was a prominent French general and later Marshal of France who distinguished himself during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8753681 — 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: Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald Context triple: [Italian and Swiss campaigns of Suvorov, opponentCommander, Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald]
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A.
Hugh John Macdonald
Hugh John Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Premier of Manitoba and was the only surviving son of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
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B.
John Sandfield Macdonald
John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
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C.
George-Étienne Cartier
George-Étienne Cartier was a key 19th-century Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation who played a central role in uniting the provinces into modern Canada.
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D.
Sir Charles Tupper
Sir Charles Tupper was a Canadian Father of Confederation and the sixth Prime Minister of Canada, known for his role in bringing Nova Scotia into Confederation and his long political career.
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E.
John A. MacDonald
John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
- 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: Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald Target entity description: Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald was a prominent French general and later Marshal of France who distinguished himself during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
Hugh John Macdonald
Hugh John Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Premier of Manitoba and was the only surviving son of Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
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B.
John Sandfield Macdonald
John Sandfield Macdonald was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first premier of Ontario after Confederation in 1867.
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C.
George-Étienne Cartier
George-Étienne Cartier was a key 19th-century Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation who played a central role in uniting the provinces into modern Canada.
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D.
Sir Charles Tupper
Sir Charles Tupper was a Canadian Father of Confederation and the sixth Prime Minister of Canada, known for his role in bringing Nova Scotia into Confederation and his long political career.
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E.
John A. MacDonald
John A. MacDonald is a film producer best known for his work on the 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French general
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| employer |
First French Empire
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French First Republic ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish descent ⓘ |
| familyName |
Macdonald
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linked to:
MacDonald
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| givenName |
Alexandre
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Jacques ⓘ Joseph ⓘ Étienne ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Marshal of the Empire ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Marshal of France ⓘ |
| movement | French Revolutionary military ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | promotion to Marshal of France for battlefield merit ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinguished service during the French Revolutionary Wars
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distinguished service during the Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| notableRole | senior commander in Napoleon Bonaparte's armies ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
French Revolutionary Wars
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Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald Description of subject: Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald was a prominent French general and later Marshal of France who distinguished himself during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Italian and Swiss campaigns of Suvorov
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opponentCommander
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Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald
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