rue Saint-Jacques
E138112
Rue Saint-Jacques is one of the oldest and historically significant streets in Paris’s Latin Quarter, long associated with education, scholarship, and religious institutions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rue Saint-Jacques | 5 |
| Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris | 2 |
| Faubourg Saint-Jacques | 1 |
| rue Saint-Jacques canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T941092 — 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: rue Saint-Jacques Context triple: [Lycée Louis-le-Grand, locatedOn, rue Saint-Jacques]
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A.
Rue Saint-Dominique
Rue Saint-Dominique is a notable street in Paris’s 7th arrondissement, known for its historic buildings, government ministries, and proximity to major landmarks like Les Invalides and the Eiffel Tower.
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B.
Boulevard Saint‑Germain
Boulevard Saint‑Germain is a major Parisian thoroughfare famed for its historic cafés, intellectual and literary heritage, and elegant Haussmann-era architecture on the Left Bank.
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C.
Rue de l’Hôtel des Postes
Rue de l’Hôtel des Postes is a central street in Nice, France, known for its proximity to Place Masséna and its mix of shops, services, and historic urban architecture.
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D.
Rue de Rivoli
Rue de Rivoli is one of Paris’s most famous central thoroughfares, known for its elegant arcades, upscale shops, and proximity to landmarks like the Louvre and the Tuileries Garden.
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E.
Boulevard Saint‑Michel
Boulevard Saint‑Michel is a major Parisian thoroughfare in the Latin Quarter, known for its bookstores, student life, and proximity to the Sorbonne and the Luxembourg Gardens.
- 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: rue Saint-Jacques Target entity description: Rue Saint-Jacques is one of the oldest and historically significant streets in Paris’s Latin Quarter, long associated with education, scholarship, and religious institutions.
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A.
Rue Saint-Dominique
Rue Saint-Dominique is a notable street in Paris’s 7th arrondissement, known for its historic buildings, government ministries, and proximity to major landmarks like Les Invalides and the Eiffel Tower.
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B.
Boulevard Saint‑Germain
Boulevard Saint‑Germain is a major Parisian thoroughfare famed for its historic cafés, intellectual and literary heritage, and elegant Haussmann-era architecture on the Left Bank.
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C.
Rue de l’Hôtel des Postes
Rue de l’Hôtel des Postes is a central street in Nice, France, known for its proximity to Place Masséna and its mix of shops, services, and historic urban architecture.
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D.
Rue de Rivoli
Rue de Rivoli is one of Paris’s most famous central thoroughfares, known for its elegant arcades, upscale shops, and proximity to landmarks like the Louvre and the Tuileries Garden.
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E.
Boulevard Saint‑Michel
Boulevard Saint‑Michel is a major Parisian thoroughfare in the Latin Quarter, known for its bookstores, student life, and proximity to the Sorbonne and the Luxembourg Gardens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic street
ⓘ
street ⓘ thoroughfare in Paris ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Camino de Santiago
ⓘ
surface form:
Way of St. James
pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Boulevard Saint‑Germain
ⓘ
surface form:
Boulevard Saint-Germain
Rue Gay-Lussac ⓘ Rue Soufflot ⓘ Rue des Écoles ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| followsRouteOf |
Via Agrippa from Lyon to the north of Gaul
ⓘ
ancient Roman road from Lutetia to Orléans ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
symbol of Parisian intellectual life
ⓘ
symbol of the university tradition in Paris ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial street
ⓘ
educational hub ⓘ religious center ⓘ residential street ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | part of protected historic urban fabric of Paris ⓘ |
| hasNameMeaning | Street of Saint James ⓘ |
| hasStreetType | rue ⓘ |
| historicalRole | major north–south axis in medieval Paris ⓘ |
| inTimePeriod |
Ancien Régime
ⓘ
Middle Ages ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with education
ⓘ
association with religious institutions ⓘ association with scholarship ⓘ being one of the oldest streets in Paris ⓘ historical significance ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
5th arrondissement of Paris
ⓘ
France ⓘ Latin Quarter ⓘ Paris ⓘ Île-de-France region ⓘ
surface form:
Île-de-France
|
| namedAfter |
Apostle James the Greater
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint James the Greater
|
| partOf | Left Bank of the Seine ⓘ |
| passesNear |
Collège de France
ⓘ
Panthéon, Paris ⓘ
surface form:
Panthéon
Sorbonne University ⓘ Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas ⓘ Saint-Séverin Church ⓘ
surface form:
Église Saint-Séverin
|
| urbanContext | dense historic urban street ⓘ |
| urbanRole | axis structuring the Latin Quarter ⓘ |
| usedAs |
processional route for religious institutions
ⓘ
route for scholars and students in the Latin Quarter ⓘ |
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: rue Saint-Jacques Description of subject: Rue Saint-Jacques is one of the oldest and historically significant streets in Paris’s Latin Quarter, long associated with education, scholarship, and religious institutions.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rue Saint-Jacques
this entity surface form:
Rue Saint-Jacques
this entity surface form:
Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris
this entity surface form:
Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris
this entity surface form:
Faubourg Saint-Jacques
this entity surface form:
Rue Saint-Jacques
this entity surface form:
Rue Saint-Jacques
this entity surface form:
Rue Saint-Jacques