Cap Gris-Nez
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Cap Gris-Nez is a prominent headland on the northern coast of France, known as the country’s closest point to England across the English Channel.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cap Gris-Nez canonical | 6 |
| Cap Gris-Nez (distant, across the Channel, on clear days) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1901886 — 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: Cap Gris-Nez Context triple: [White Cliffs of Dover, closestPointTo, Cap Gris-Nez]
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A.
Cap Bon Peninsula
Cap Bon Peninsula is a prominent northeastern Tunisian headland extending into the Mediterranean Sea, known for its rich ancient history, fertile agricultural lands, and coastal resorts.
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B.
Point Fortin
Point Fortin is a coastal borough in southwestern Trinidad known for its energy industry and annual Borough Day celebrations.
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C.
Cape Roquemaurel
Cape Roquemaurel is a coastal headland located on Trinity Peninsula at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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D.
Gros Islet
Gros Islet is a coastal town in northern Saint Lucia known for its popular Friday night street party, beaches, and proximity to the island’s main tourism and yachting areas.
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E.
Lihou
Lihou is a small tidal island off the west coast of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, known for its rich wildlife, historic priory ruins, and causeway access at low tide.
- 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: Cap Gris-Nez Target entity description: Cap Gris-Nez is a prominent headland on the northern coast of France, known as the country’s closest point to England across the English Channel.
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A.
Cap Bon Peninsula
Cap Bon Peninsula is a prominent northeastern Tunisian headland extending into the Mediterranean Sea, known for its rich ancient history, fertile agricultural lands, and coastal resorts.
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B.
Point Fortin
Point Fortin is a coastal borough in southwestern Trinidad known for its energy industry and annual Borough Day celebrations.
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C.
Cape Roquemaurel
Cape Roquemaurel is a coastal headland located on Trinity Peninsula at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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D.
Gros Islet
Gros Islet is a coastal town in northern Saint Lucia known for its popular Friday night street party, beaches, and proximity to the island’s main tourism and yachting areas.
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E.
Lihou
Lihou is a small tidal island off the west coast of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, known for its rich wildlife, historic priory ruins, and causeway access at low tide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Cap Gris-Nez Description of subject: Cap Gris-Nez is a prominent headland on the northern coast of France, known as the country’s closest point to England across the English Channel.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cap Gris-Nez (distant, across the Channel, on clear days)