de Tourville
E270551
de Tourville is a French noble family name most famously borne by Admiral Anne Hilarion de Tourville, a distinguished 17th-century naval commander.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| de Tourville canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2471722 — 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: de Tourville Context triple: [Anne Hilarion de Tourville, familyName, de Tourville]
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A.
Bucentaure
Bucentaure was a French 80-gun ship of the line that served as Admiral Villeneuve’s flagship and played a central role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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B.
French flagship L’Orient
The French flagship L’Orient was a massive 120-gun ship of the line that famously exploded and sank during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, becoming one of the most dramatic naval losses of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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C.
De Ruyter
De Ruyter was the original publishing house that brought out Multatuli’s influential 19th-century Dutch novel "Max Havelaar."
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D.
Phélippeaux
Phélippeaux was a French royalist artillery officer and military engineer noted for his crucial role in organizing the defense of Acre against Napoleon in 1799.
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E.
duc de Plaisance
The duc de Plaisance was a French ducal title created by Napoleon for statesman Charles-François Lebrun, one of the First French Empire’s leading political figures.
- 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: de Tourville Target entity description: de Tourville is a French noble family name most famously borne by Admiral Anne Hilarion de Tourville, a distinguished 17th-century naval commander.
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A.
Bucentaure
Bucentaure was a French 80-gun ship of the line that served as Admiral Villeneuve’s flagship and played a central role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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B.
French flagship L’Orient
The French flagship L’Orient was a massive 120-gun ship of the line that famously exploded and sank during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, becoming one of the most dramatic naval losses of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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C.
De Ruyter
De Ruyter was the original publishing house that brought out Multatuli’s influential 19th-century Dutch novel "Max Havelaar."
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D.
Phélippeaux
Phélippeaux was a French royalist artillery officer and military engineer noted for his crucial role in organizing the defense of Acre against Napoleon in 1799.
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E.
duc de Plaisance
The duc de Plaisance was a French ducal title created by Napoleon for statesman Charles-François Lebrun, one of the First French Empire’s leading political figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French admiral
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French noble family name ⓘ naval commander ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedEra | 17th century ⓘ |
| associatedField | naval warfare ⓘ |
| associatedWith | French Navy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| familyName | de Tourville self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | linked to a distinguished 17th-century naval commander ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Navy ⓘ |
| nameType | family name ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | de Tourville self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Anne Hilarion de Tourville ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| region | France ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| usedBy | French nobility ⓘ |
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: de Tourville Description of subject: de Tourville is a French noble family name most famously borne by Admiral Anne Hilarion de Tourville, a distinguished 17th-century naval commander.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Anne Hilarion de Tourville
subject surface form:
Anne Hilarion de Tourville
subject surface form:
Anne Hilarion de Tourville