Auxerre
E123045
Auxerre is a historic city in the Burgundy region of central France, known for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Auxerre canonical | 42 |
| Auxerre (prefecture of Yonne) | 1 |
| city of Auxerre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T601734 — 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: Auxerre Context triple: [Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, placeOfBirth, Auxerre]
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Langres
Langres is a historic fortified town in northeastern France known for its well-preserved ramparts and as the birthplace of Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.
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B.
Besançon
Besançon is a historic city in eastern France, known for its well-preserved Vauban fortifications, rich cultural heritage, and role as a regional administrative and educational center.
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C.
Thionville
Thionville is a town in northeastern France near the Luxembourg border, known historically as a strategic industrial and military center in the Moselle region.
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D.
Cartigny
Cartigny is a small rural municipality in western Switzerland known for its agricultural landscape and location within the canton of Geneva.
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E.
Beaune
Beaune is a historic town in eastern France renowned as the wine capital of Burgundy and a center of Burgundy’s prestigious vineyards and wine trade.
- 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: Auxerre Target entity description: Auxerre is a historic city in the Burgundy region of central France, known for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
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A.
Langres
Langres is a historic fortified town in northeastern France known for its well-preserved ramparts and as the birthplace of Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.
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B.
Besançon
Besançon is a historic city in eastern France, known for its well-preserved Vauban fortifications, rich cultural heritage, and role as a regional administrative and educational center.
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C.
Thionville
Thionville is a town in northeastern France near the Luxembourg border, known historically as a strategic industrial and military center in the Moselle region.
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D.
Cartigny
Cartigny is a small rural municipality in western Switzerland known for its agricultural landscape and location within the canton of Geneva.
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E.
Beaune
Beaune is a historic town in eastern France renowned as the wine capital of Burgundy and a center of Burgundy’s prestigious vineyards and wine trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Auxerre Description of subject: Auxerre is a historic city in the Burgundy region of central France, known for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
subject surface form:
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
subject surface form:
Joseph Fourier
this entity surface form:
city of Auxerre
subject surface form:
Pont Paul-Bert (Auxerre)
subject surface form:
Pont Paul-Bert (Auxerre)
this entity surface form:
Auxerre (prefecture of Yonne)