Mont-Saint-Michel
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Mont-Saint-Michel is a famous medieval island commune crowned by a Gothic abbey, located off the coast of Normandy in northwestern France.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1074362 — 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: Mont-Saint-Michel Context triple: [Normandy, knownFor, Mont-Saint-Michel]
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A.
Honfleur
Honfleur is a historic port town in Normandy, northern France, renowned for its picturesque old harbor, timber-framed houses, and association with Impressionist painters.
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B.
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is a coastal town in southern France known as a pilgrimage site and seaside resort at the edge of the Camargue wetlands.
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C.
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont is a commune in Normandy, France, best known for its role in the D-Day landings as one of the first villages liberated by American forces.
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D.
Calais
Calais is a major French port city on the northern coast, serving as one of the primary crossing points between France and England.
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E.
Bayeux
Bayeux is a historic town in Normandy, France, renowned for the medieval Bayeux Tapestry and its proximity to the D-Day landing beaches.
- 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: Mont-Saint-Michel Target entity description: Mont-Saint-Michel is a famous medieval island commune crowned by a Gothic abbey, located off the coast of Normandy in northwestern France.
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A.
Honfleur
Honfleur is a historic port town in Normandy, northern France, renowned for its picturesque old harbor, timber-framed houses, and association with Impressionist painters.
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B.
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is a coastal town in southern France known as a pilgrimage site and seaside resort at the edge of the Camargue wetlands.
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C.
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont is a commune in Normandy, France, best known for its role in the D-Day landings as one of the first villages liberated by American forces.
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D.
Calais
Calais is a major French port city on the northern coast, serving as one of the primary crossing points between France and England.
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E.
Bayeux
Bayeux is a historic town in Normandy, France, renowned for the medieval Bayeux Tapestry and its proximity to the D-Day landing beaches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UNESCO World Heritage Site
ⓘ
commune ⓘ island ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| accessedBy | causeway ⓘ |
| alsoFeaturesArchitecturalStyle |
Romanesque architecture
ⓘ
surface form:
Romanesque
|
| area | approximately 0.97 square kilometres ⓘ |
| arrondissement |
Arrondissement of Avranches
ⓘ
surface form:
Avranches arrondissement
|
| canton |
Pontorson
ⓘ
surface form:
Pontorson canton
|
| causewayType | elevated bridge causeway ⓘ |
| constructionOfAbbeyBegan | 10th century ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Saint Michael
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Michael the Archangel
|
| department | Manche ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 92 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| famousFor |
Gothic abbey
ⓘ
dramatic tides ⓘ medieval architecture ⓘ pilgrimage site ⓘ |
| formerRegion |
Normandy (administrative region)
ⓘ
surface form:
Basse-Normandie
|
| foundedAsMonastery | 8th century ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Mont-Saint-Michel
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel
ramparts ⓘ village streets ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 50353 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manche department
ⓘ
Normandy ⓘ Western France ⓘ
surface form:
northwestern France
|
| locatedInBodyOfWater | English Channel ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Avranches
ⓘ
Pontorson ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf | Normandy ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel
ⓘ
surface form:
Mont-Saint-Michel Bay
|
| mainArchitecturalStyle | Gothic ⓘ |
| notableEvent | never taken by the English during the Hundred Years' War ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| population | approximately 30 inhabitants ⓘ |
| postalCode | 50170 ⓘ |
| region | Normandy ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | tidal flats ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| touristsPerYear | over 2 million visitors ⓘ |
| UNESCOCriteria | Cultural (i), (iii), (vi) ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince | 1979 ⓘ |
| usedAs |
fortress
ⓘ
medieval pilgrimage site ⓘ prison during the French Revolution and 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mont-Saint-Michel Description of subject: Mont-Saint-Michel is a famous medieval island commune crowned by a Gothic abbey, located off the coast of Normandy in northwestern France.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
this entity surface form:
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
this entity surface form:
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
this entity surface form:
Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel
this entity surface form:
Mont-Saint-Michel (France)
subject surface form:
Manche
this entity surface form:
Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel
subject surface form:
St Michael's Mount
subject surface form:
St Michael's Mount
subject surface form:
Granville
this entity surface form:
island of Mont-Saint-Michel
this entity surface form:
Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel
this entity surface form:
Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel
subject surface form:
Centre des monuments nationaux
this entity surface form:
Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel
this entity surface form:
Mont-Saint-Michel (as a major religious center)
this entity surface form:
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay