Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
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Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a major border town in western French Guiana, located on the Maroni River opposite Suriname and historically known for its former penal colony.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni canonical | 3 |
| Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni arrondissement | 2 |
| Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1359965 — 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-Laurent-du-Maroni Context triple: [French Guiana, hasCity, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni]
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A.
Petit-Goâve
Petit-Goâve is a coastal town in southwestern Haiti known as one of the country’s older colonial settlements and a local center of commerce and fishing.
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B.
Saint-Pierre
Saint-Pierre is the main town and administrative center of the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.
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C.
Sainte-Marie
Sainte-Marie is a French designation for Saint Mary, the mother of Jesus, commonly used as a namesake for religious institutions and places.
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D.
Port-Joinville
Port-Joinville is the main port town on the Île d’Yeu off the west coast of France, known as a ferry hub and seaside destination in the Vendée department.
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E.
Port Louis
Port Louis is the capital and largest city of Mauritius, serving as its main economic, political, and cultural center as well as a key regional port in the Indian Ocean.
- 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-Laurent-du-Maroni Target entity description: Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a major border town in western French Guiana, located on the Maroni River opposite Suriname and historically known for its former penal colony.
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A.
Petit-Goâve
Petit-Goâve is a coastal town in southwestern Haiti known as one of the country’s older colonial settlements and a local center of commerce and fishing.
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B.
Saint-Pierre
Saint-Pierre is the main town and administrative center of the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.
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C.
Sainte-Marie
Sainte-Marie is a French designation for Saint Mary, the mother of Jesus, commonly used as a namesake for religious institutions and places.
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D.
Port-Joinville
Port-Joinville is the main port town on the Île d’Yeu off the west coast of France, known as a ferry hub and seaside destination in the Vendée department.
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E.
Port Louis
Port Louis is the capital and largest city of Mauritius, serving as its main economic, political, and cultural center as well as a key regional port in the Indian Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
border town
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commune of France ⓘ subprefecture in France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | subprefecture of French Guiana ⓘ |
| arrondissement |
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni arrondissement
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| borderCrossingMode |
ferry
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small boats (pirogues) ⓘ |
| bordersCountryAcrossRiver | Suriname ⓘ |
| borderType | international border crossing ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| countrySubdivisionStatus | commune with extensive territory ⓘ |
| department | French Guiana ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
cross-border trade
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public administration ⓘ services ⓘ small-scale commerce ⓘ |
| formerFunction | administrative center of French Guiana penal system ⓘ |
| hasClimate | tropical rainforest climate ⓘ |
| hasEthnicCommunities |
Amerindian
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Creole ⓘ Maroon ⓘ Metropolitan French ⓘ other immigrant groups ⓘ |
| hasFunction | administrative center for western French Guiana ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | several former penal colony buildings listed as historic monuments ⓘ |
| hasPort | river port on the Maroni ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfPenalColony | late 19th century to mid-20th century ⓘ |
| historicalRole | penal colony center of French Guiana ⓘ |
| isSubprefectureOf |
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni arrondissement
|
| localLanguages |
Amerindian languages
ⓘ
Guianese Creole ⓘ Maroon languages ⓘ Sranan Tongo ⓘ |
| locatedIn | western French Guiana ⓘ |
| locatedOnBorderWith | Suriname ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Maroni River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Maroni River ⓘ |
| notableSite | Camp de la Transportation ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| oppositeTownAcrossRiver | Albina ⓘ |
| overseasDepartment | French Guiana ⓘ |
| penalColonyFor |
French convicts
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political prisoners ⓘ relégués (repeat offenders) ⓘ |
| region | French Guiana ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC−03:00 ⓘ |
| transportConnection |
connected by road to Cayenne
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connected by road to Mana ⓘ |
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-Laurent-du-Maroni Description of subject: Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a major border town in western French Guiana, located on the Maroni River opposite Suriname and historically known for its former penal colony.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni arrondissement
this entity surface form:
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni arrondissement
this entity surface form:
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni area