Saint-Malo
E146767
Saint-Malo is a historic walled port city in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its maritime heritage, privateering past, and dramatic coastal setting on the English Channel.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint-Malo canonical | 15 |
| Saint Malo | 3 |
| Port of Saint-Malo | 1 |
| St Malo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1266101 — 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: Saint-Malo Context triple: [Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, birthPlace, Saint-Malo]
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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.
Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a major French port city on the Cotentin Peninsula, known for its strategic naval harbor and cross-Channel ferry connections.
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C.
Saint-Nazaire
Saint-Nazaire is a major Atlantic port city in western France, known for its shipbuilding industry and strategic location at the mouth of the Loire River.
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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.
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city and major fishing port in northern France, located on the English Channel in the Pas-de-Calais department.
- 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: Saint-Malo Target entity description: Saint-Malo is a historic walled port city in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its maritime heritage, privateering past, and dramatic coastal setting on the English Channel.
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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.
Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a major French port city on the Cotentin Peninsula, known for its strategic naval harbor and cross-Channel ferry connections.
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C.
Saint-Nazaire
Saint-Nazaire is a major Atlantic port city in western France, known for its shipbuilding industry and strategic location at the mouth of the Loire River.
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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.
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city and major fishing port in northern France, located on the English Channel in the Pas-de-Calais department.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commune of France
ⓘ
port city ⓘ tourist destination ⓘ |
| belongsTo | French Republic ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 35 ⓘ |
| governedAs | commune ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
maritime trade ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | maritime heritage ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Fort National
ⓘ
Grand Bé island ⓘ Petit Bé fort ⓘ Saint-Malo Cathedral ⓘ city ramparts ⓘ |
| hasPast | privateering past ⓘ |
| hasPort |
Saint-Malo
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Port of Saint-Malo
|
| hasTransport |
Saint-Malo railway station
ⓘ
ferry connections to Channel Islands ⓘ ferry connections to England ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | heavily damaged in World War II ⓘ |
| historicalRole | major corsair base ⓘ |
| is | historic walled city ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dramatic coastal setting
ⓘ
fortifications ⓘ high tidal range ⓘ intra-muros old town ⓘ privateers ⓘ ramparts ⓘ tidal islands ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brittany
ⓘ
Ille-et-Vilaine ⓘ
surface form:
Ille-et-Vilaine department
Western France ⓘ
surface form:
northwestern France
|
| locatedNear | Rance estuary ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Côte de Nacre
ⓘ
surface form:
Côte d'Émeraude
English Channel ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Saint-Malo
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Malo
|
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Ille-et-Vilaine arrondissement of Saint-Malo ⓘ |
| postalCode | 35400 ⓘ |
| rebuiltIn | post-World War II period ⓘ |
| regionalLanguage |
Breton
ⓘ
Gallo ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| twinnedWith |
Gdynia
ⓘ
Portsmouth ⓘ Würzburg ⓘ |
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: Saint-Malo Description of subject: Saint-Malo is a historic walled port city in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its maritime heritage, privateering past, and dramatic coastal setting on the English Channel.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
St Malo
this entity surface form:
Saint Malo
this entity surface form:
Port of Saint-Malo
this entity surface form:
Saint Malo
this entity surface form:
Saint Malo