Claude Louis Hector
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Claude Louis Hector was a prominent French general and Marshal of France who distinguished himself in numerous battles during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Claude Louis Hector canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8328332 — 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: Claude Louis Hector Context triple: [Claude Louis Hector de Villars, givenName, Claude Louis Hector]
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A.
Antoine François de Fourcroy
Antoine François de Fourcroy was an influential 18th-century French chemist and educator who helped develop and popularize the new chemical nomenclature and modern chemical theory during the French Enlightenment.
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B.
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin was a prominent French neoclassical architect best known for designing Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.
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C.
Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty
Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty was a prominent French cavalry general of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his leadership of the Imperial Guard cavalry in numerous major campaigns.
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D.
Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie was a French nobleman and military officer best known as the aristocratic father of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas and grandfather of novelist Alexandre Dumas.
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E.
Claude-Louis
Claude-Louis is the French engineer and physicist best known for formulating the Navier–Stokes equations in fluid mechanics.
- 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: Claude Louis Hector Target entity description: Claude Louis Hector was a prominent French general and Marshal of France who distinguished himself in numerous battles during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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A.
Antoine François de Fourcroy
Antoine François de Fourcroy was an influential 18th-century French chemist and educator who helped develop and popularize the new chemical nomenclature and modern chemical theory during the French Enlightenment.
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B.
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin was a prominent French neoclassical architect best known for designing Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.
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C.
Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty
Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty was a prominent French cavalry general of the Napoleonic Wars, renowned for his leadership of the Imperial Guard cavalry in numerous major campaigns.
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D.
Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie was a French nobleman and military officer best known as the aristocratic father of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas and grandfather of novelist Alexandre Dumas.
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E.
Claude-Louis
Claude-Louis is the French engineer and physicist best known for formulating the Navier–Stokes equations in fluid mechanics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French general
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human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Marshal’s baton of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1653-05-08 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Kingdom of France
NERFINISHED
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Moulins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1734-06-17 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Kingdom of Sardinia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Turin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | de Villars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military strategy
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warfare ⓘ |
| genre | military leadership ⓘ |
| givenName |
Claude
NERFINISHED
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Hector NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Marshal General of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | French nobility ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
Marshal General of the King’s Armies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marshal of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchServed |
Louis XIV of France
NERFINISHED
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Louis XV of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Duke of Villars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped negotiate the Peace of Rastatt
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one of the last great generals of Louis XIV ⓘ secured French victory at the Battle of Denain in 1712 ⓘ |
| notableFor | distinguished service in late 17th-century and early 18th-century European wars ⓘ |
| notableWork |
campaigns in the War of the Spanish Succession
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command at the Battle of Denain ⓘ command at the Battle of Friedlingen ⓘ command at the Battle of Höchstädt (1703) ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Nine Years' War
NERFINISHED
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War of the Polish Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ War of the Spanish Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | French Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Marshal General of the King’s Armies
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peer of France ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Claude Louis Hector Description of subject: Claude Louis Hector was a prominent French general and Marshal of France who distinguished himself in numerous battles during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Claude Louis Hector de Villars