Jean-Baptiste de Vimeur
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Jean-Baptiste de Vimeur was a French nobleman and military officer of the Ancien Régime, best known as the father of General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean-Baptiste de Vimeur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T820236 — 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-Baptiste de Vimeur Context triple: [Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, father, Jean-Baptiste de Vimeur]
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Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, was a prominent French general and courtier under Louis XIV, remembered for his high noble status and several major military defeats during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
Jacques François Dugommier
Jacques François Dugommier was a French Revolutionary general noted for his decisive leadership in several key campaigns, including the early victories of the Revolutionary Wars.
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C.
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier was a French marshal and Napoleon Bonaparte’s indispensable chief of staff, renowned for his organizational genius in coordinating the Grande Armée’s campaigns.
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D.
François Étienne de Kellermann
François Étienne de Kellermann was a French cavalry general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his decisive charge that helped secure Napoleon’s victory at the Battle of Marengo.
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E.
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers was a French admiral of the Revolutionary era, best known for commanding the French fleet that was defeated by Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
- 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-Baptiste de Vimeur Target entity description: Jean-Baptiste de Vimeur was a French nobleman and military officer of the Ancien Régime, best known as the father of General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau.
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A.
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi
Marshal François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, was a prominent French general and courtier under Louis XIV, remembered for his high noble status and several major military defeats during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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B.
Jacques François Dugommier
Jacques François Dugommier was a French Revolutionary general noted for his decisive leadership in several key campaigns, including the early victories of the Revolutionary Wars.
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C.
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier was a French marshal and Napoleon Bonaparte’s indispensable chief of staff, renowned for his organizational genius in coordinating the Grande Armée’s campaigns.
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D.
François Étienne de Kellermann
François Étienne de Kellermann was a French cavalry general of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, noted for his decisive charge that helped secure Napoleon’s victory at the Battle of Marengo.
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E.
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers was a French admiral of the Revolutionary era, best known for commanding the French fleet that was defeated by Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French nobleman
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| child | Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName | de Vimeur ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean-Baptiste ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | French ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | nobleman of the Ancien Régime ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ⓘ |
| partOf | French nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Ancien Régime ⓘ |
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-Baptiste de Vimeur Description of subject: Jean-Baptiste de Vimeur was a French nobleman and military officer of the Ancien Régime, best known as the father of General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.