Marquis de Lafayette
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Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key ally of the American Revolution and later an influential figure in the French Revolution.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T28589 — 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: Marquis de Lafayette Context triple: [Continental Army, notableCommander, Marquis de Lafayette]
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Jean-Baptiste
Jean-Baptiste is the French given name of the mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, known for pioneering Fourier analysis and the study of heat conduction.
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Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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Henry Knox
Henry Knox was an American Revolutionary War general who served as George Washington’s chief artillery officer and later became the first U.S. Secretary of War.
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John Armstrong
John Armstrong is a common personal name shared by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, the military, the arts, and academia.
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Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene was a major American Revolutionary War general who became George Washington’s most trusted subordinate and played a crucial role in the Southern campaign against the British.
- 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: Marquis de Lafayette Target entity description: Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key ally of the American Revolution and later an influential figure in the French Revolution.
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A.
Jean-Baptiste
Jean-Baptiste is the French given name of the mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, known for pioneering Fourier analysis and the study of heat conduction.
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B.
Horatio Gates
Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
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C.
Henry Knox
Henry Knox was an American Revolutionary War general who served as George Washington’s chief artillery officer and later became the first U.S. Secretary of War.
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D.
John Armstrong
John Armstrong is a common personal name shared by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, the military, the arts, and academia.
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E.
Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene was a major American Revolutionary War general who became George Washington’s most trusted subordinate and played a crucial role in the Southern campaign against the British.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Marquis de Lafayette Description of subject: Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key ally of the American Revolution and later an influential figure in the French Revolution.
Referenced by (121)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette statue (Paris, Cours-la-Reine)
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this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
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Axel von Fersen the Younger
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
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Lafayette, Louisiana
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
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LaFayette, Georgia
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
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Fayette County, Alabama
subject surface form:
Fayette County, Alabama
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
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Lafayette Park (San Francisco)
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (Clermont estate)
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
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National Assembly (French Revolution)
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
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de La Fayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
this entity surface form:
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette