Jean Decoux
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Jean Decoux was a French admiral and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of French Indochina under the Vichy regime during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Decoux canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9052560 — 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: Jean Decoux Context triple: [Vichy French authorities in Indochina, headOfGovernment, Jean Decoux]
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A.
Pierre Benoit
Pierre Benoit was a prominent French Dominican biblical scholar and theologian known for his influential work on the New Testament and his leadership at Jerusalem’s École Biblique.
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B.
Yves Cordonnier
Yves Cordonnier is a notable individual who bears the surname Cordonnier, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a prominent bearer of the name.
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C.
Pierre Cordonnier
Pierre Cordonnier is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the French surname Cordonnier.
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D.
Albert Le Breton
Albert Le Breton was a French nobleman and royal official who served as Chancellor of France under King Philip II Augustus in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
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E.
Marcel Dourgnon
Marcel Dourgnon was a French architect best known for designing the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a landmark of early 20th-century museum architecture.
- 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: Jean Decoux Target entity description: Jean Decoux was a French admiral and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of French Indochina under the Vichy regime during World War II.
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A.
Pierre Benoit
Pierre Benoit was a prominent French Dominican biblical scholar and theologian known for his influential work on the New Testament and his leadership at Jerusalem’s École Biblique.
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B.
Yves Cordonnier
Yves Cordonnier is a notable individual who bears the surname Cordonnier, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a prominent bearer of the name.
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C.
Pierre Cordonnier
Pierre Cordonnier is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the French surname Cordonnier.
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D.
Albert Le Breton
Albert Le Breton was a French nobleman and royal official who served as Chancellor of France under King Philip II Augustus in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
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E.
Marcel Dourgnon
Marcel Dourgnon was a French architect best known for designing the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a landmark of early 20th-century museum architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Jean Decoux Description of subject: Jean Decoux was a French admiral and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of French Indochina under the Vichy regime during World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.