Joséphine de Beauharnais
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Joséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and the first Empress of the French, renowned for her influential role in French court society during the Napoleonic era.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joséphine de Beauharnais canonical | 37 |
| Empress Joséphine | 15 |
| Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais | 2 |
| Empress Joséphine (step-grandmother) | 1 |
| Joséphine | 1 |
| Joséphine Bonaparte | 1 |
| Joséphine, Empress of the French | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T67303 — 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: Joséphine de Beauharnais Context triple: [Napoleon Bonaparte, spouse, Joséphine de Beauharnais]
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Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau was a New Orleans–born Parisian socialite best known as the controversial subject of John Singer Sargent’s famous portrait "Madame X."
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B.
Caroline von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt was a German noblewoman, salonnière, and patron of the arts and sciences who played a significant role in Berlin’s intellectual and cultural life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military general who rose to become Emperor of the French, dominating European affairs in the early 19th century through his political and military leadership.
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D.
Pierre
Pierre is a masculine given name of French origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures in history, arts, and science.
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E.
Louise
Louise is a feminine given name of French origin, traditionally associated with nobility and widely used in many European and English-speaking countries.
- 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: Joséphine de Beauharnais Target entity description: Joséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and the first Empress of the French, renowned for her influential role in French court society during the Napoleonic era.
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A.
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau was a New Orleans–born Parisian socialite best known as the controversial subject of John Singer Sargent’s famous portrait "Madame X."
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B.
Caroline von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt was a German noblewoman, salonnière, and patron of the arts and sciences who played a significant role in Berlin’s intellectual and cultural life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military general who rose to become Emperor of the French, dominating European affairs in the early 19th century through his political and military leadership.
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D.
Pierre
Pierre is a masculine given name of French origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures in history, arts, and science.
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E.
Louise
Louise is a feminine given name of French origin, traditionally associated with nobility and widely used in many European and English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Joséphine de Beauharnais Description of subject: Joséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and the first Empress of the French, renowned for her influential role in French court society during the Napoleonic era.
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Empress Joséphine
subject surface form:
Hortense de Beauharnais
subject surface form:
The Three Graces (Canova sculpture)
this entity surface form:
Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais
this entity surface form:
Empress Joséphine
this entity surface form:
Empress Joséphine