Roger Ducos
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Roger Ducos was a French politician and member of the Directory who played a transitional role in the final phase of the French Revolution leading up to Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Ducos canonical | 3 |
| Martial Joseph Armand Herman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T913692 — 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: Roger Ducos Context triple: [Directory, notableLeader, Roger Ducos]
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A.
Gilbert Rozon
Gilbert Rozon is a Canadian entertainment producer best known as the controversial founder of the international comedy festival Just for Laughs.
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B.
Jean-François Reubell
Jean-François Reubell was a French lawyer and politician who served as one of the five Directors leading France during the Directory period of the French Revolution.
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C.
Léon Azéma
Léon Azéma was a 20th-century French architect known for major public works in Paris, including co-designing the Palais de Chaillot for the 1937 Exposition.
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D.
Claude Gillot
Claude Gillot was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known as an early master of the fête galante style and as a teacher of Antoine Watteau.
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E.
Louis Marie Cordonnier
Louis Marie Cordonnier was a prominent French architect known for his influential Beaux-Arts and regionalist designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Roger Ducos Target entity description: Roger Ducos was a French politician and member of the Directory who played a transitional role in the final phase of the French Revolution leading up to Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power.
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A.
Gilbert Rozon
Gilbert Rozon is a Canadian entertainment producer best known as the controversial founder of the international comedy festival Just for Laughs.
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B.
Jean-François Reubell
Jean-François Reubell was a French lawyer and politician who served as one of the five Directors leading France during the Directory period of the French Revolution.
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C.
Léon Azéma
Léon Azéma was a 20th-century French architect known for major public works in Paris, including co-designing the Palais de Chaillot for the 1937 Exposition.
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D.
Claude Gillot
Claude Gillot was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known as an early master of the fête galante style and as a teacher of Antoine Watteau.
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E.
Louis Marie Cordonnier
Louis Marie Cordonnier was a prominent French architect known for his influential Beaux-Arts and regionalist designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Kingdom of Württemberg ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1747-06-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1816-03-17 ⓘ |
| diedOn | 1816-03-17 ⓘ |
| familyName | Ducos ⓘ |
| givenName | Roger ⓘ |
| honouredIn | name engraved on the Arc de Triomphe ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Conseil des Cinq-Cents
ⓘ
surface form:
Council of Five Hundred
French Directory ⓘ National Convention ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in the establishment of the Consulate
ⓘ
transitional role at the end of the French Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
magistrate
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Coup of 18 Brumaire
ⓘ
French Revolution ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Montfort-en-Chalosse ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ulm ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | moderate republican ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Third Consul
ⓘ
surface form:
Second Consul of France
deputy to the National Convention ⓘ member of the Council of Five Hundred ⓘ member of the French Directory ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
French Consulate
ⓘ
surface form:
Consulate of France
|
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| supported | Napoleon Bonaparte ⓘ |
| wasActiveIn |
early 19th century
ⓘ
late 18th century ⓘ |
| wasBornIn | Montfort-en-Chalosse ⓘ |
| wasBornOn | 1747-06-25 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
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: Roger Ducos Description of subject: Roger Ducos was a French politician and member of the Directory who played a transitional role in the final phase of the French Revolution leading up to Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Martial Joseph Armand Herman
subject surface form:
French Directory