de Duras
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De Duras is a French noble family name associated with Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, a Huguenot soldier who became an English peer and military commander under King Charles II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Louis de Duras | 4 |
| de Duras canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8879714 — 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: de Duras Context triple: [Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, familyName, de Duras]
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A.
Duras
Duras is a traditional red wine grape variety from southwest France, known for producing deeply colored, spicy wines with moderate tannins.
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B.
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker renowned for her experimental narrative style and works such as "L'Amant" ("The Lover").
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C.
Patricia Michon
Patricia Michon is an actress known for her role in the 1960 racial drama film "I Passed for White."
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D.
Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute was a French novelist and essayist associated with the Nouveau Roman movement, known for her innovative narrative techniques and psychological depth.
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E.
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux is a French author renowned for her autobiographical and socially engaged novels, and is widely celebrated as one of France’s most important contemporary writers.
- 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: de Duras Target entity description: De Duras is a French noble family name associated with Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, a Huguenot soldier who became an English peer and military commander under King Charles II.
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A.
Duras
Duras is a traditional red wine grape variety from southwest France, known for producing deeply colored, spicy wines with moderate tannins.
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B.
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker renowned for her experimental narrative style and works such as "L'Amant" ("The Lover").
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C.
Patricia Michon
Patricia Michon is an actress known for her role in the 1960 racial drama film "I Passed for White."
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D.
Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute was a French novelist and essayist associated with the Nouveau Roman movement, known for her innovative narrative techniques and psychological depth.
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E.
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux is a French author renowned for her autobiographical and socially engaged novels, and is widely celebrated as one of France’s most important contemporary writers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English peer
ⓘ
French noble family ⓘ monarch ⓘ noble title ⓘ nobleman ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
English court of Charles II
ⓘ
linked to:
Court of Charles II of England
French nobility ⓘ Huguenots ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName | de Duras ⓘ |
| givenName | Louis ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | de Duras ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commander ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | de Duras ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Feversham ⓘ |
| notableFor |
military command under Charles II of England
ⓘ
service as a Huguenot soldier in England ⓘ |
| notableMember | Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham ⓘ |
| ordinalOfTitle |
2nd Earl of Feversham
ⓘ
linked to:
Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham
|
| partOf | Peerage of England ⓘ |
| religion |
Huguenot
ⓘ
linked to:
Huguenots
|
| servedUnder | Charles II of England ⓘ |
| title |
King of England
ⓘ
King of Ireland ⓘ King of Scotland ⓘ
linked to:
Kings of Scotland
|
| titleHeldIn | Peerage of England ⓘ |
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: de Duras Description of subject: De Duras is a French noble family name associated with Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, a Huguenot soldier who became an English peer and military commander under King Charles II.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.