Thoiry
E148083
Thoiry is a commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thoiry canonical | 13 |
| Thoiry (Ain) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T680015 — 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: Thoiry Context triple: [Prévessin-Moëns, sharesBorderWith, Thoiry]
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A.
Grenoble
Grenoble is a major city in southeastern France, known for its Alpine setting, universities, and research centers.
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B.
Évian-les-Bains
Évian-les-Bains is a French spa and resort town in the Alps renowned worldwide for its mineral water and scenic lakeside setting.
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C.
Thonon-les-Bains
Thonon-les-Bains is a French spa and resort town in the Haute-Savoie region, known for its lakeside setting on Lake Geneva and views of the Alps.
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D.
Lancy
Lancy is a suburban municipality in western Switzerland that forms part of the urban area of Geneva.
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E.
Pays de Gex
Pays de Gex is a region in eastern France near the Swiss border, known for its proximity to Geneva and the Jura Mountains.
- 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: Thoiry Target entity description: Thoiry is a commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex region.
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A.
Grenoble
Grenoble is a major city in southeastern France, known for its Alpine setting, universities, and research centers.
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B.
Évian-les-Bains
Évian-les-Bains is a French spa and resort town in the Alps renowned worldwide for its mineral water and scenic lakeside setting.
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C.
Thonon-les-Bains
Thonon-les-Bains is a French spa and resort town in the Haute-Savoie region, known for its lakeside setting on Lake Geneva and views of the Alps.
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D.
Lancy
Lancy is a suburban municipality in western Switzerland that forms part of the urban area of Geneva.
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E.
Pays de Gex
Pays de Gex is a region in eastern France near the Swiss border, known for its proximity to Geneva and the Jura Mountains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| distanceToGeneva | approximately 20 kilometres ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
Rhône basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Rhône river basin
|
| hasBorderingCommune |
Collonges
ⓘ
Farges ⓘ Léaz ⓘ Péron ⓘ Saint-Genis-Pouilly ⓘ Sergy ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity | cross-border commuting to Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasINSEECode | 01419 ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 01710 ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | rural-urban fringe ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection |
road links to Geneva
ⓘ
road links to Gex ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ain department
ⓘ
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region ⓘ Jura Mountains foothills ⓘ
linked to:
Swiss Plateau–Jura transition zone
Pays de Gex ⓘ Pays de Gex intercommunal area ⓘ
linked to:
Pays de Gex
eastern France ⓘ
linked to:
northeastern France
|
| locatedNear | Swiss border ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Geneva ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Gex
ⓘ
canton of Thoiry ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
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: Thoiry Description of subject: Thoiry is a commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex region.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.