Viry
E1045830
Viry is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, situated near the Swiss border in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13506169 — 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: Viry Context triple: [arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, contains, Viry]
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A.
Vira
The Vira are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group primarily inhabiting the South Kivu region of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, known for their distinct cultural traditions and social organization.
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B.
Vira
Vira is a traditional Portuguese folk dance, especially popular in the Minho region, characterized by lively circle formations and spirited, rotating steps.
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C.
Virú
Virú is a town and provincial capital in northern Peru known for its agricultural production and proximity to important pre-Columbian archaeological sites.
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D.
Vire
Vire is a historic town in northwestern France known for its medieval heritage and role as an administrative center in the Calvados department of Normandy.
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E.
Vishkanya
Vishkanya is a 1991 Indian Hindi-language horror film known for its supernatural revenge plot and early appearance of actress Riya Sen.
- 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: Viry Target entity description: Viry is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, situated near the Swiss border in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
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A.
Vira
The Vira are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group primarily inhabiting the South Kivu region of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, known for their distinct cultural traditions and social organization.
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B.
Vira
Vira is a traditional Portuguese folk dance, especially popular in the Minho region, characterized by lively circle formations and spirited, rotating steps.
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C.
Virú
Virú is a town and provincial capital in northern Peru known for its agricultural production and proximity to important pre-Columbian archaeological sites.
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D.
Vire
Vire is a historic town in northwestern France known for its medieval heritage and role as an administrative center in the Calvados department of Normandy.
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E.
Vishkanya
Vishkanya is a 1991 Indian Hindi-language horror film known for its supernatural revenge plot and early appearance of actress Riya Sen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| areaSquareKilometres | 26.16 ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| countryBorder | Switzerland ⓘ |
| elevationMaxMeters | 777 ⓘ |
| elevationMinMeters | 429 ⓘ |
| governedAs | municipality ⓘ |
| hasDemonym |
Viryennes
ⓘ
Viryens ⓘ
linked to:
Viry
|
| hasDepartmentCode | 74 ⓘ |
| hasINSEECode | 74309 ⓘ |
| hasMayor | Bernard Gaud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 74580 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
ⓘ
Genevois area ⓘ
linked to:
Genevois region
Haute-Savoie department ⓘ
linked to:
Haute-Savoie
eastern France ⓘ historical Savoy region ⓘ southeastern France ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
ⓘ
Swiss border ⓘ |
| mayoralTerm | 2020–2026 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
ⓘ
linked to:
arrondissement of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
Canton of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois ⓘ
linked to:
canton of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois
French Alps region ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +1 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | +2 ⓘ |
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: Viry Description of subject: Viry is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, situated near the Swiss border in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Viry