Joseph Bonaparte
E16559
Joseph Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon who became King of Naples and later King of Spain during the Napoleonic era.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Bonaparte canonical | 50 |
| King Joseph Bonaparte | 2 |
| Giuseppe Buonaparte | 1 |
| Joseph Bonaparte's government | 1 |
| Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T67308 — 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 Bonaparte Context triple: [Napoleon Bonaparte, sibling, Joseph Bonaparte]
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Napoleon II
Napoleon II, also known as the Duke of Reichstadt, was the short-lived heir to Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire who spent most of his life in exile at the Austrian court.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military general who rose to become Emperor of the French, dominating European affairs in the early 19th century through his political and military leadership.
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Elisa Bonaparte
Elisa Bonaparte was a French princess and political figure of the Napoleonic era, best known for governing Tuscany and Lucca under her brother Napoleon’s rule.
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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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Caroline Bonaparte
Caroline Bonaparte was a French noblewoman and political figure, best known as Napoleon Bonaparte’s ambitious younger sister and the Queen of Naples through her marriage to Joachim Murat.
- 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 Bonaparte Target entity description: Joseph Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon who became King of Naples and later King of Spain during the Napoleonic era.
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Napoleon II
Napoleon II, also known as the Duke of Reichstadt, was the short-lived heir to Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire who spent most of his life in exile at the Austrian court.
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B.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military general who rose to become Emperor of the French, dominating European affairs in the early 19th century through his political and military leadership.
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C.
Elisa Bonaparte
Elisa Bonaparte was a French princess and political figure of the Napoleonic era, best known for governing Tuscany and Lucca under her brother Napoleon’s rule.
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D.
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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E.
Caroline Bonaparte
Caroline Bonaparte was a French noblewoman and political figure, best known as Napoleon Bonaparte’s ambitious younger sister and the Queen of Naples through her marriage to Joachim Murat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Bonaparte Description of subject: Joseph Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon who became King of Naples and later King of Spain during the Napoleonic era.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Joseph Bonaparte's government