Douvaine
E1023686
Douvaine is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, near the Swiss border and the southern shore of Lake Geneva.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douvaine canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13166283 — 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: Douvaine Context triple: [arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains, contains, Douvaine]
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A.
Paillon
The Paillon is a coastal river in southeastern France that flows through the Alpes-Maritimes department to the Mediterranean near Nice.
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B.
Sauvestre
Sauvestre is a French surname most notably associated with architect Stephen Sauvestre, who contributed to the design of the Eiffel Tower.
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C.
Demarete
Demarete was a 5th-century BCE Greek queen of Syracuse, known as the wife of the tyrant Gelon and remembered for her political influence and legendary generosity after the Battle of Himera.
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D.
Coquille
Coquille is a French surname historically borne by members of the Dugommier family line.
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E.
Merlav
Merlav is a small island and Oceanic language community in Vanuatu, known for its distinct Mwerlap language and culture.
- 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: Douvaine Target entity description: Douvaine is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, near the Swiss border and the southern shore of Lake Geneva.
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A.
Paillon
The Paillon is a coastal river in southeastern France that flows through the Alpes-Maritimes department to the Mediterranean near Nice.
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B.
Sauvestre
Sauvestre is a French surname most notably associated with architect Stephen Sauvestre, who contributed to the design of the Eiffel Tower.
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C.
Demarete
Demarete was a 5th-century BCE Greek queen of Syracuse, known as the wife of the tyrant Gelon and remembered for her political influence and legendary generosity after the Battle of Himera.
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D.
Coquille
Coquille is a French surname historically borne by members of the Dugommier family line.
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E.
Merlav
Merlav is a small island and Oceanic language community in Vanuatu, known for its distinct Mwerlap language and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| areaSquareKilometres | 10.55 ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 74 ⓘ |
| distanceToGenevaApproxKm | 15 ⓘ |
| distanceToThononLesBainsApproxKm | 20 ⓘ |
| elevationMaxMeters | 520 ⓘ |
| elevationMinMeters | 421 ⓘ |
| hasBorderingCountryNearby | Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasDemonym |
Douvainois
ⓘ
Douvainoises ⓘ |
| hasMayor | [current mayor – name may change over time] ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatusSince | French Revolution era ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 74105 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains
ⓘ
linked to:
arrondissement of Thonon-les-Bains
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ⓘ
linked to:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
Canton of Sciez ⓘ Chablais ⓘ Haute-Savoie ⓘ eastern France ⓘ southeastern France ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| near |
Lake Geneva
ⓘ
Swiss border ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| postalCode | 74140 ⓘ |
| regionCode | 84 ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
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: Douvaine Description of subject: Douvaine is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, near the Swiss border and the southern shore of Lake Geneva.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.