Charles de Morny
E405996
Charles de Morny was a prominent 19th-century French statesman, businessman, and half-brother of Emperor Napoleon III who played a key role in the politics of the Second French Empire.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Auguste Louis Joseph de Morny | 1 |
| Charles de Morny canonical | 1 |
| Duc de Morny | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3989430 — 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: Charles de Morny Context triple: [President of the Corps législatif, officeHolder, Charles de Morny]
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A.
William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen
William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, was an 18th-century German nobleman who ruled a portion of the Nassau territories within the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine was a 19th-century German prince and military officer best known as a morganatic founder of the Battenberg (later Mountbatten) family, which became closely connected to several European royal houses.
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C.
Prince Louis Jules of Savoy
Prince Louis Jules of Savoy was a 17th-century Italian nobleman of the House of Savoy, notable as the son of the influential courtier Olympia Mancini and a member of a prominent European dynastic family.
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D.
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Prince Louis of Battenberg was a German-born British naval officer who became First Sea Lord and the progenitor of the Mountbatten branch of the British royal family.
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E.
Francis, Duke of Teck
Francis, Duke of Teck was a German-born nobleman of the House of Württemberg who became a British royal by marriage and was the father of Queen Mary, consort of King George V.
- 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: Charles de Morny Target entity description: Charles de Morny was a prominent 19th-century French statesman, businessman, and half-brother of Emperor Napoleon III who played a key role in the politics of the Second French Empire.
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A.
William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen
William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, was an 18th-century German nobleman who ruled a portion of the Nassau territories within the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine was a 19th-century German prince and military officer best known as a morganatic founder of the Battenberg (later Mountbatten) family, which became closely connected to several European royal houses.
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C.
Prince Louis Jules of Savoy
Prince Louis Jules of Savoy was a 17th-century Italian nobleman of the House of Savoy, notable as the son of the influential courtier Olympia Mancini and a member of a prominent European dynastic family.
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D.
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Prince Louis of Battenberg was a German-born British naval officer who became First Sea Lord and the progenitor of the Mountbatten branch of the British royal family.
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E.
Francis, Duke of Teck
Francis, Duke of Teck was a German-born nobleman of the House of Württemberg who became a British royal by marriage and was the father of Queen Mary, consort of King George V.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French politician
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businessperson ⓘ diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1811-10-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Père Lachaise Cemetery ⓘ |
| businessActivity |
railway enterprises in France
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real estate speculation ⓘ sugar industry investments ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1865-03-10 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Lycée Louis-le-Grand ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | de Morny ⓘ |
| father | Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut ⓘ |
| fullName |
Charles de Morny
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Charles Auguste Louis Joseph de Morny
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| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| knownFor |
key role in establishing the Second French Empire
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leadership of the Corps législatif under Napoleon III ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bonaparte dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Bonaparte family
|
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| mother | Hortense de Beauharnais ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Duke of Morny ⓘ |
| notableFor | influence over economic policy of the Second French Empire ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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diplomat ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| participatedIn | coup d’état of 2 December 1851 in France ⓘ |
| playedPoliticalRoleIn |
Second Empire of France
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surface form:
Second French Empire
|
| politicalAlignment | Bonapartist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
French ambassador to the Russian Empire
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President of the Corps législatif of the Second French Empire ⓘ member of the Corps législatif ⓘ |
| relative |
Napoleon III of France
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surface form:
Napoleon III
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| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| servedIn | French Army ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte
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surface form:
Napoleon III
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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: Charles de Morny Description of subject: Charles de Morny was a prominent 19th-century French statesman, businessman, and half-brother of Emperor Napoleon III who played a key role in the politics of the Second French Empire.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Duc de Morny
this entity surface form:
Charles Auguste Louis Joseph de Morny