Canton of Avranches
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The Canton of Avranches is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France, centered around the town of Avranches and grouping several surrounding communes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Canton of Avranches canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13000952 — 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: Canton of Avranches Context triple: [Avranches, isPartOf, Canton of Avranches]
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A.
Canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer
The Canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer is an administrative division in the Calvados department of northwestern France, encompassing the coastal town of Courseulles-sur-Mer and surrounding communes.
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B.
canton of Falaise
The canton of Falaise is an administrative division in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the historic town of Falaise.
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C.
canton of Carentan-les-Marais
The canton of Carentan-les-Marais is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France that includes several communes, among them the historic town of Sainte-Mère-Église.
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D.
Canton of Granville
The Canton of Granville is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France, centered on the coastal town of Granville.
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E.
Arrondissement of Avranches
The Arrondissement of Avranches is an administrative district in the Manche department of northwestern France, encompassing several communes and towns including Mortain.
- 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: Canton of Avranches Target entity description: The Canton of Avranches is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France, centered around the town of Avranches and grouping several surrounding communes.
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A.
Canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer
The Canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer is an administrative division in the Calvados department of northwestern France, encompassing the coastal town of Courseulles-sur-Mer and surrounding communes.
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B.
canton of Falaise
The canton of Falaise is an administrative division in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the historic town of Falaise.
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C.
canton of Carentan-les-Marais
The canton of Carentan-les-Marais is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France that includes several communes, among them the historic town of Sainte-Mère-Église.
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D.
Canton of Granville
The Canton of Granville is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France, centered on the coastal town of Granville.
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E.
Arrondissement of Avranches
The Arrondissement of Avranches is an administrative district in the Manche department of northwestern France, encompassing several communes and towns including Mortain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | canton of France ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Avranches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Angey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Avranches NERFINISHED ⓘ Bacilly NERFINISHED ⓘ Carolles NERFINISHED ⓘ Champcey NERFINISHED ⓘ Champeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ Chavoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Dragey-Ronthon NERFINISHED ⓘ Genêts NERFINISHED ⓘ Jullouville NERFINISHED ⓘ La Gohannière NERFINISHED ⓘ La Rochelle-Normande NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Luot NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Val-Saint-Père NERFINISHED ⓘ Lolif NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcey-les-Grèves NERFINISHED ⓘ Ponts NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Brice NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Jean-de-la-Haize NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Jean-le-Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Loup NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Léonard NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Martin-des-Champs NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Ovin NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Pair-sur-Mer NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Pierre-Langers NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Sauveur-la-Pommeraye NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Senier-sous-Avranches NERFINISHED ⓘ Sartilly NERFINISHED ⓘ Sartilly-Baie-Bocage NERFINISHED ⓘ Vains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| electoralRole | electoral district for the departmental council of Manche ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Avranches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | French ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Manche department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
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Central European Time ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Avranches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
French departmental canton network
ⓘ
arrondissement of Avranches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | administrative division ⓘ |
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: Canton of Avranches Description of subject: The Canton of Avranches is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France, centered around the town of Avranches and grouping several surrounding communes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.