Canton of Les Pieux
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The Canton of Les Pieux is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France that groups together several communes on the Cotentin Peninsula.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canton of Les Pieux canonical | 1 |
| Canton of Les Pieux (neighboring cantons – unspecified) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13389975 — 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 Les Pieux Context triple: [Barneville-Carteret, isPartOf, Canton of Les Pieux]
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A.
Canton of Beausoleil
The Canton of Beausoleil is an administrative division in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, bordering Monaco and encompassing several coastal and hillside communes on the French Riviera.
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B.
Canton of Paray-le-Monial
The Canton of Paray-le-Monial is an administrative division in the Saône-et-Loire department of eastern France, centered on the town of Paray-le-Monial and grouping several surrounding communes.
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C.
Canton of Moreuil
The Canton of Moreuil was a former administrative division in the Somme department of northern France, grouping several communes including Cantigny.
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D.
Canton of Châtillon
The Canton of Châtillon is an administrative division in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, centered on the municipality of Châtillon and used for local political and electoral purposes.
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E.
Canton of Saint-Genis-Pouilly
The Canton of Saint-Genis-Pouilly is an administrative division in the Ain department of eastern France, situated near the Swiss border in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
- 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 Les Pieux Target entity description: The Canton of Les Pieux is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France that groups together several communes on the Cotentin Peninsula.
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A.
Canton of Beausoleil
The Canton of Beausoleil is an administrative division in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, bordering Monaco and encompassing several coastal and hillside communes on the French Riviera.
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B.
Canton of Paray-le-Monial
The Canton of Paray-le-Monial is an administrative division in the Saône-et-Loire department of eastern France, centered on the town of Paray-le-Monial and grouping several surrounding communes.
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C.
Canton of Moreuil
The Canton of Moreuil was a former administrative division in the Somme department of northern France, grouping several communes including Cantigny.
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D.
Canton of Châtillon
The Canton of Châtillon is an administrative division in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, centered on the municipality of Châtillon and used for local political and electoral purposes.
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E.
Canton of Saint-Genis-Pouilly
The Canton of Saint-Genis-Pouilly is an administrative division in the Ain department of eastern France, situated near the Swiss border in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | canton of France ⓘ |
| administrativeCentre | Les Pieux ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Manche department ⓘ |
| containsAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Benoîtville
ⓘ
Bricquebosq ⓘ Flamanville ⓘ Grosville ⓘ Helleville ⓘ
linked to:
La Haye-Pesnel
Le Rozel ⓘ Le Vretot ⓘ Les Pieux ⓘ Pierreville ⓘ Saint-Christophe-du-Foc ⓘ Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard ⓘ Siouville-Hague ⓘ Sotteville ⓘ Surtainville ⓘ Taillepied ⓘ Tréauville ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Les Pieux ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
northwestern France
ⓘ
linked to:
Western France
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Manche department
ⓘ
Normandy ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Cotentin Peninsula ⓘ |
| partOf |
Manche department
ⓘ
arrondissement of Cherbourg ⓘ |
| sharesBorderWith |
Canton of Les Pieux (neighboring cantons – unspecified)
ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Les Pieux
|
| subdivisionType | canton ⓘ |
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 Les Pieux Description of subject: The Canton of Les Pieux is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France that groups together several communes on the Cotentin Peninsula.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Canton of Les Pieux