canton of Gif-sur-Yvette
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The canton of Gif-sur-Yvette is an administrative division in the Essonne department of the Île-de-France region in northern France, centered on the town of Gif-sur-Yvette and its surrounding communes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| canton of Gif-sur-Yvette canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13064769 — 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 Gif-sur-Yvette Context triple: [Gif-sur-Yvette, partOf, canton of Gif-sur-Yvette]
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A.
canton of Gennevilliers
The canton of Gennevilliers is an administrative division in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region in northern France, grouping several communes for local governance and electoral purposes.
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B.
canton of Rueil-Malmaison
The canton of Rueil-Malmaison is an administrative division in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region in northern France, centered on the suburban commune of Rueil-Malmaison west of Paris.
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C.
canton of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
The canton of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges is an administrative division in the Val-de-Marne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France, centered on the suburban town of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges southeast of Paris.
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D.
canton of Neuilly-sur-Seine
The canton of Neuilly-sur-Seine is an administrative division in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region, encompassing the affluent Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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E.
canton of Thiais
The canton of Thiais is an administrative division in the Val-de-Marne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France, grouping several southeastern Paris suburbs including Rungis.
- 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 Gif-sur-Yvette Target entity description: The canton of Gif-sur-Yvette is an administrative division in the Essonne department of the Île-de-France region in northern France, centered on the town of Gif-sur-Yvette and its surrounding communes.
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A.
canton of Gennevilliers
The canton of Gennevilliers is an administrative division in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region in northern France, grouping several communes for local governance and electoral purposes.
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B.
canton of Rueil-Malmaison
The canton of Rueil-Malmaison is an administrative division in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region in northern France, centered on the suburban commune of Rueil-Malmaison west of Paris.
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C.
canton of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
The canton of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges is an administrative division in the Val-de-Marne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France, centered on the suburban town of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges southeast of Paris.
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D.
canton of Neuilly-sur-Seine
The canton of Neuilly-sur-Seine is an administrative division in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region, encompassing the affluent Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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E.
canton of Thiais
The canton of Thiais is an administrative division in the Val-de-Marne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France, grouping several southeastern Paris suburbs including Rungis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | canton of France ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Gif-sur-Yvette ⓘ |
| contains |
Bures-sur-Yvette
ⓘ
Gif-sur-Yvette ⓘ Gometz-le-Châtel ⓘ Igny ⓘ Orsay ⓘ Saclay ⓘ Saint-Aubin ⓘ Vauhallan ⓘ Villiers-le-Bâcle ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 91 ⓘ |
| effectiveFrom | March 2015 ⓘ |
| governingLaw | French administrative law ⓘ |
| hasType |
electoral district
ⓘ
local administrative unit ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Essonne department
ⓘ
linked to:
Essonne
northern France ⓘ Île-de-France region ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Paris-Saclay plateau
ⓘ
linked to:
Plateau de Saclay fringe
|
| namedAfter | Gif-sur-Yvette ⓘ |
| partOf | arrondissement of Palaiseau ⓘ |
| regionCapital | Paris ⓘ |
| reorganizedIn | French canton reorganisation of 2015 ⓘ |
| riverInArea | Yvette River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | French territorial administration ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
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 Gif-sur-Yvette Description of subject: The canton of Gif-sur-Yvette is an administrative division in the Essonne department of the Île-de-France region in northern France, centered on the town of Gif-sur-Yvette and its surrounding communes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.