François Joseph Paul de Grasse
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François Joseph Paul de Grasse was a French admiral whose decisive naval victory in the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of the Chesapeake, helped secure the British surrender at Yorktown.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| François Joseph Paul de Grasse canonical | 11 |
| Comte de Grasse | 5 |
| Admiral de Grasse | 1 |
| François Joseph Paul de Grasse – French side | 1 |
| comte de Grasse | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T733698 — 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: François Joseph Paul de Grasse Context triple: [Siege of Yorktown, commander, François Joseph Paul de Grasse]
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A.
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers was a French admiral of the Revolutionary era, best known for commanding the French fleet that was defeated by Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, was a French nobleman and general whose leadership of French forces in North America was crucial to the allied victory over Britain, particularly at the Siege of Yorktown.
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C.
Admiral Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran
Admiral Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran was an 18th-century French naval officer best known for commanding the French fleet defeated by the British at the Battle of Lagos during the Seven Years' War.
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D.
Commodore John Barry
Commodore John Barry was an Irish-born American naval officer often regarded as a founding father of the United States Navy for his leadership and service during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Jean-Baptiste Deshays
Jean-Baptiste Deshays was an 18th-century French painter known for his religious and historical works and as a prominent figure in the Rococo movement.
- 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: François Joseph Paul de Grasse Target entity description: François Joseph Paul de Grasse was a French admiral whose decisive naval victory in the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of the Chesapeake, helped secure the British surrender at Yorktown.
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A.
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers
François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers was a French admiral of the Revolutionary era, best known for commanding the French fleet that was defeated by Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
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B.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, was a French nobleman and general whose leadership of French forces in North America was crucial to the allied victory over Britain, particularly at the Siege of Yorktown.
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C.
Admiral Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran
Admiral Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran was an 18th-century French naval officer best known for commanding the French fleet defeated by the British at the Battle of Lagos during the Seven Years' War.
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D.
Commodore John Barry
Commodore John Barry was an Irish-born American naval officer often regarded as a founding father of the United States Navy for his leadership and service during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Jean-Baptiste Deshays
Jean-Baptiste Deshays was an 18th-century French painter known for his religious and historical works and as a prominent figure in the Rococo movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: François Joseph Paul de Grasse Description of subject: François Joseph Paul de Grasse was a French admiral whose decisive naval victory in the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of the Chesapeake, helped secure the British surrender at Yorktown.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
François Joseph Paul de Grasse – French side
François Joseph Paul de Grasse
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François Joseph Paul de Grasse
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this entity surface form:
comte de Grasse
subject surface form:
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
this entity surface form:
Comte de Grasse
this entity surface form:
Comte de Grasse
this entity surface form:
Comte de Grasse
this entity surface form:
Comte de Grasse
this entity surface form:
Comte de Grasse
this entity surface form:
Admiral de Grasse