Clock Tower of Auxerre
E111509
The Clock Tower of Auxerre is a historic medieval belfry and timekeeping tower that serves as one of the city’s most recognizable architectural landmarks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clock Tower of Auxerre canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T895224 — 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: Clock Tower of Auxerre Context triple: [Auxerre, hasLandmark, Clock Tower of Auxerre]
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A.
Auxerre Cathedral
Auxerre Cathedral is a historic Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral in the French city of Auxerre, renowned for its striking architecture and notable stained glass.
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B.
Rouen Cathedral
Rouen Cathedral is a famous Gothic cathedral in Rouen, France, renowned for its intricate façade and for inspiring Claude Monet’s celebrated series of impressionist paintings capturing it in different lights and seasons.
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C.
Versailles Cathedral
Versailles Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Versailles, France, notable for its 18th-century architecture and status as the seat of the Diocese of Versailles.
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D.
Notre-Dame Cathedral
Notre-Dame Cathedral is a famed medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in Paris, renowned for its Gothic architecture, stained glass, and historical significance.
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E.
Abbey of Saint-Germain d’Auxerre
The Abbey of Saint-Germain d’Auxerre is a historic Benedictine monastery in Auxerre, France, renowned for its early medieval architecture and some of the oldest surviving Christian frescoes in the country.
- 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: Clock Tower of Auxerre Target entity description: The Clock Tower of Auxerre is a historic medieval belfry and timekeeping tower that serves as one of the city’s most recognizable architectural landmarks.
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A.
Auxerre Cathedral
Auxerre Cathedral is a historic Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral in the French city of Auxerre, renowned for its striking architecture and notable stained glass.
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B.
Rouen Cathedral
Rouen Cathedral is a famous Gothic cathedral in Rouen, France, renowned for its intricate façade and for inspiring Claude Monet’s celebrated series of impressionist paintings capturing it in different lights and seasons.
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C.
Versailles Cathedral
Versailles Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Versailles, France, notable for its 18th-century architecture and status as the seat of the Diocese of Versailles.
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D.
Notre-Dame Cathedral
Notre-Dame Cathedral is a famed medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in Paris, renowned for its Gothic architecture, stained glass, and historical significance.
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E.
Abbey of Saint-Germain d’Auxerre
The Abbey of Saint-Germain d’Auxerre is a historic Benedictine monastery in Auxerre, France, renowned for its early medieval architecture and some of the oldest surviving Christian frescoes in the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
belfry
ⓘ
clock tower ⓘ historic monument ⓘ medieval tower ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Gothic architecture
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Renaissance architecture ⓘ |
| category |
belfries
ⓘ
clock towers in Europe ⓘ towers in France ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| era | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
bell chamber
ⓘ
narrow windows ⓘ ornamental clock face ⓘ pointed roof ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
bell tower
ⓘ
timekeeping ⓘ |
| hasPart |
belfry
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clock mechanism ⓘ spire ⓘ turret ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Monument historique of France ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected historic monument ⓘ |
| imageSubject | postcards of Auxerre ⓘ |
| isPartOf | historic center of Auxerre ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Auxerre
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Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ⓘ France ⓘ Yonne department ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historic timekeeping role
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medieval architecture ⓘ |
| publicAccess | exterior view accessible ⓘ |
| roofMaterial | slate ⓘ |
| significantFor |
city landmark
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tourist attraction ⓘ |
| symbolOf | Auxerre city identity ⓘ |
| tourismType | cultural tourism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
civic signaling
ⓘ
public time indication ⓘ |
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: Clock Tower of Auxerre Description of subject: The Clock Tower of Auxerre is a historic medieval belfry and timekeeping tower that serves as one of the city’s most recognizable architectural landmarks.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Auxerre