Alexander von Bournonville
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Alexander von Bournonville was a 17th-century French nobleman and military commander who served as a marshal of France and led royal forces in several major battles of the Franco-Dutch War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander von Bournonville canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2678625 — 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: Alexander von Bournonville Context triple: [Battle of Seneffe, commander, Alexander von Bournonville]
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Marius Petipa
Marius Petipa was a seminal 19th-century ballet master and choreographer whose work helped define the classical ballet repertoire, including major contributions to Tchaikovsky’s ballets.
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B.
Marie Petipa
Marie Petipa was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th century, known for originating the role of the Lilac Fairy in Marius Petipa’s landmark ballet "The Sleeping Beauty."
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C.
Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar was a prominent 20th-century ballet dancer, choreographer, and influential ballet master of the Paris Opera who helped shape modern classical ballet.
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Michel Fokine
Michel Fokine was a pioneering Russian choreographer and dancer who helped revolutionize early 20th-century ballet with expressive, dramatically unified works.
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Ludwig Minkus
Ludwig Minkus was a 19th-century composer best known for his influential ballet scores, including works like "Don Quixote" and "La Bayadère."
- 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: Alexander von Bournonville Target entity description: Alexander von Bournonville was a 17th-century French nobleman and military commander who served as a marshal of France and led royal forces in several major battles of the Franco-Dutch War.
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A.
Marius Petipa
Marius Petipa was a seminal 19th-century ballet master and choreographer whose work helped define the classical ballet repertoire, including major contributions to Tchaikovsky’s ballets.
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B.
Marie Petipa
Marie Petipa was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th century, known for originating the role of the Lilac Fairy in Marius Petipa’s landmark ballet "The Sleeping Beauty."
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C.
Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar was a prominent 20th-century ballet dancer, choreographer, and influential ballet master of the Paris Opera who helped shape modern classical ballet.
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D.
Michel Fokine
Michel Fokine was a pioneering Russian choreographer and dancer who helped revolutionize early 20th-century ballet with expressive, dramatically unified works.
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E.
Ludwig Minkus
Ludwig Minkus was a 19th-century composer best known for his influential ballet scores, including works like "Don Quixote" and "La Bayadère."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French nobleman
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human ⓘ marshal of France ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| conflict | Franco-Dutch War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| employer | King of France ⓘ |
| era | Early Modern period ⓘ |
| familyName |
Alexander von Bournonville
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surface form:
von Bournonville
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| genre | military history ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
French royal forces
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surface form:
French royal army
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| militaryRank | marshal of France ⓘ |
| name | Alexander von Bournonville ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | French nobleman ⓘ |
| notability | leadership of royal forces in major battles of the Franco-Dutch War ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of royal French forces in major battles of the Franco-Dutch War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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nobleman ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Franco-Dutch War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | marshal of France ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Alexander von Bournonville Description of subject: Alexander von Bournonville was a 17th-century French nobleman and military commander who served as a marshal of France and led royal forces in several major battles of the Franco-Dutch War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.