Marshal Saint-Arnaud
E173732
Marshal Saint-Arnaud was a 19th-century French Army officer and Minister of War best known for commanding French forces during the early stages of the Crimean War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marshal Saint-Arnaud canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1516196 — 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: Marshal Saint-Arnaud Context triple: [Battle of Alma, FrenchCommander, Marshal Saint-Arnaud]
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A.
Marshal Boufflers
Marshal Boufflers was a prominent French general and marshal of France under Louis XIV, noted for his skilled defensive leadership in major late 17th-century European conflicts.
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B.
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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C.
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian War.
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D.
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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E.
François Certain Canrobert
François Certain Canrobert was a 19th-century French Army marshal who gained prominence for leading French forces during the Crimean 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: Marshal Saint-Arnaud Target entity description: Marshal Saint-Arnaud was a 19th-century French Army officer and Minister of War best known for commanding French forces during the early stages of the Crimean War.
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A.
Marshal Boufflers
Marshal Boufflers was a prominent French general and marshal of France under Louis XIV, noted for his skilled defensive leadership in major late 17th-century European conflicts.
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B.
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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C.
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian War.
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D.
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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E.
François Certain Canrobert
François Certain Canrobert was a 19th-century French Army marshal who gained prominence for leading French forces during the Crimean War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Army officer
ⓘ
government minister ⓘ human ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| conflict | Crimean War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| era | 19th century France ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military administration
ⓘ
warfare ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | commander of French expeditionary forces in the Crimean War ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Marshal ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Marshal of France ⓘ |
| notableEvent | early campaigns of the Crimean War ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading French forces at the beginning of the Crimean War ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of French forces in the early stages of the Crimean War ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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soldier ⓘ |
| partOf | French military leadership during the Crimean War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | French Minister of War ⓘ |
| residence | France ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
military
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
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: Marshal Saint-Arnaud Description of subject: Marshal Saint-Arnaud was a 19th-century French Army officer and Minister of War best known for commanding French forces during the early stages of the Crimean War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.