Marshal Ney
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Marshal Ney was a prominent French military commander and one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most celebrated marshals, renowned for his bravery and leadership during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marshal Ney canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5242856 — 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 Ney Context triple: [Michel Ney, alsoKnownAs, Marshal Ney]
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A.
Chaffee Grant
Chaffee Grant was a member of the prominent Grant family, descended from U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant through his son Ulysses S. Grant Jr.
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B.
Philip Kearny
Philip Kearny was a prominent United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War, renowned for his aggressive leadership and battlefield bravery.
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C.
John Schofield
John Schofield was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who later served as U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
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D.
Lucius Buckner
Lucius Buckner is a notable individual associated with the Buckner family name, recognized as a distinguished bearer of that surname.
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E.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 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 Ney Target entity description: Marshal Ney was a prominent French military commander and one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most celebrated marshals, renowned for his bravery and leadership during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
Chaffee Grant
Chaffee Grant was a member of the prominent Grant family, descended from U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant through his son Ulysses S. Grant Jr.
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B.
Philip Kearny
Philip Kearny was a prominent United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War, renowned for his aggressive leadership and battlefield bravery.
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C.
John Schofield
John Schofield was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who later served as U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
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D.
Lucius Buckner
Lucius Buckner is a notable individual associated with the Buckner family name, recognized as a distinguished bearer of that surname.
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E.
Marshal Tallard
Marshal Tallard was a French general and marshal of France best known for commanding French forces and being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Duke of Elchingen
ⓘ
French military commander ⓘ Prince of the Moskva ⓘ |
| accusedOf | treason ⓘ |
| allegiance |
First French Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Napoleon Bonaparte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cimetière du Père-Lachaise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1769-01-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1815-12-07 ⓘ |
| era | Napoleonic era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military leadership ⓘ |
| givenName | Michel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by firing squad ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Marshal of the Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname |
le Brave des Braves
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
the bravest of the brave ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command during the Napoleonic Wars
ⓘ
exceptional bravery in battle ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership during the retreat from Moscow ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Borodino
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Friedland NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Leipzig NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Quatre Bras NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ French Revolutionary Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleonic Wars ⓘ Peninsular War NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian campaign of 1812 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
County of Saarbrücken
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Saarlouis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
France
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Napoleon Bonaparte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Agnès de Mouillard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Duke of Elchingen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marshal of the Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince of the Moskva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| triedBy | Chamber of Peers of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Ney Description of subject: Marshal Ney was a prominent French military commander and one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most celebrated marshals, renowned for his bravery and leadership during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.