Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie
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Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie was an 18th-century French nobleman and marshal of France who played a prominent military role during the Seven Years' War.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T628863 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie Context triple: [Battle of Minden, commander, Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie]
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Louis Leprince-Ringuet
Louis Leprince-Ringuet was a prominent French physicist and engineer known for his pioneering work in particle physics and cosmic rays, as well as for his influential role in French science policy and communication.
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Jacques Ignace Hittorff
Jacques Ignace Hittorff was a 19th-century German-born French architect and urban planner known for his major contributions to Parisian architecture and city design, including prominent public buildings and squares.
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C.
Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons
Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons was a 17th-century French nobleman and military commander of the House of Savoy, notable as the father of the famed general Prince Eugene of Savoy.
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D.
Auguste de Montferrand
Auguste de Montferrand was a 19th-century French-born architect best known for designing monumental neoclassical buildings in Russia, most notably in Saint Petersburg.
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E.
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin was a prominent French neoclassical architect best known for designing Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.
- 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: Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie Target entity description: Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie was an 18th-century French nobleman and marshal of France who played a prominent military role during the Seven Years' War.
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A.
Louis Leprince-Ringuet
Louis Leprince-Ringuet was a prominent French physicist and engineer known for his pioneering work in particle physics and cosmic rays, as well as for his influential role in French science policy and communication.
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B.
Jacques Ignace Hittorff
Jacques Ignace Hittorff was a 19th-century German-born French architect and urban planner known for his major contributions to Parisian architecture and city design, including prominent public buildings and squares.
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C.
Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons
Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons was a 17th-century French nobleman and military commander of the House of Savoy, notable as the father of the famed general Prince Eugene of Savoy.
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D.
Auguste de Montferrand
Auguste de Montferrand was a 19th-century French-born architect best known for designing monumental neoclassical buildings in Russia, most notably in Saint Petersburg.
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E.
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin was a prominent French neoclassical architect best known for designing Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French nobleman
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duke ⓘ human ⓘ marshal of France ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitle | peer of France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| familyName |
Duc de Broglie
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surface form:
de Broglie
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Victor-François ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Duc de Broglie
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surface form:
duc de Broglie
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| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Broglie ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | French Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | marshal of France ⓘ |
| nobleRank | duke ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
2nd duc de Broglie
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| notableFor | prominent military role during the Seven Years' War ⓘ |
| notableWork | military campaigns during the Seven Years' War ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Seven Years' War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | French army commander ⓘ |
| socialClass | French aristocracy ⓘ |
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: Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie Description of subject: Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie was an 18th-century French nobleman and marshal of France who played a prominent military role during the Seven Years' War.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Victor-François, Duc de Broglie
this entity surface form:
Victor-François, Duc de Broglie
this entity surface form:
Victor-François, Duc de Broglie and Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie
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nobleTitle
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Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
2nd duc de Broglie
subject surface form:
Victor-François de Broglie
this entity surface form:
2nd Duc de Broglie