Joseph Souham
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Joseph Souham was a French general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his capable leadership in several major campaigns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Souham canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9419338 — 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: Joseph Souham Context triple: [Battle of Tourcoing, commander, Joseph Souham]
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A.
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert was a French Revolutionary general noted for his rapid rise through the ranks and his distinguished service in Italy before being killed in battle at a young age.
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B.
Marshal François-Joseph Lefebvre
Marshal François-Joseph Lefebvre was a prominent French military leader and Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon, noted for his command in major Revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns.
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C.
Charles Dupuy
Charles Dupuy was a French statesman who served multiple times as Prime Minister during the Third Republic and played a key role in centrist republican politics.
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D.
Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume
Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume was a prominent French naval officer and admiral who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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E.
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian 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: Joseph Souham Target entity description: Joseph Souham was a French general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his capable leadership in several major campaigns.
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A.
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert was a French Revolutionary general noted for his rapid rise through the ranks and his distinguished service in Italy before being killed in battle at a young age.
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B.
Marshal François-Joseph Lefebvre
Marshal François-Joseph Lefebvre was a prominent French military leader and Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon, noted for his command in major Revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns.
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C.
Charles Dupuy
Charles Dupuy was a French statesman who served multiple times as Prime Minister during the Third Republic and played a key role in centrist republican politics.
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D.
Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume
Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume was a prominent French naval officer and admiral who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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E.
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French general
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| era |
Age of Revolution
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linked to:
Age of Revolutions
Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military affairs
ⓘ
warfare ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasActivity | military command ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | capable commander ⓘ |
| hasRole |
field commander
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general officer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| movement | French Revolutionary military ⓘ |
| notableFor |
capable leadership in several major campaigns
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service under Revolutionary and Napoleonic regimes ⓘ |
| notableWork | command in Revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns ⓘ |
| occupation |
military leader
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
French Revolutionary Wars
ⓘ
Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| residence | France ⓘ |
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: Joseph Souham Description of subject: Joseph Souham was a French general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his capable leadership in several major campaigns.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.