Carnac
E293898
Carnac is a commune in Brittany, northwestern France, best known for its extensive prehistoric standing stone alignments and megalithic sites.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carnac canonical | 4 |
| Locmariaquer | 2 |
| Carnac megalithic complex | 1 |
| Carnac stones | 1 |
| alignments of Carnac | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2736731 — 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: Carnac Context triple: [Quiberon Bay, near, Carnac]
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A.
Gouvy
Gouvy is a rural municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, known for its natural landscapes and proximity to the Ardennes region.
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B.
Casteau
Casteau is a village in Belgium best known as the site of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).
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C.
Salen
Salen is a small coastal village on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, known as a local hub with basic services for residents and visitors exploring the island.
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D.
Fox-Amphoux
Fox-Amphoux is a small commune in the Var department of southeastern France, known as the birthplace of French Revolutionary politician Paul Barras.
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E.
Haubourdin
Haubourdin is a commune in northern France, located near Lille in the Nord department of the Hauts-de-France region.
- 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: Carnac Target entity description: Carnac is a commune in Brittany, northwestern France, best known for its extensive prehistoric standing stone alignments and megalithic sites.
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A.
Gouvy
Gouvy is a rural municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, known for its natural landscapes and proximity to the Ardennes region.
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B.
Casteau
Casteau is a village in Belgium best known as the site of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).
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C.
Salen
Salen is a small coastal village on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, known as a local hub with basic services for residents and visitors exploring the island.
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D.
Fox-Amphoux
Fox-Amphoux is a small commune in the Var department of southeastern France, known as the birthplace of French Revolutionary politician Paul Barras.
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E.
Haubourdin
Haubourdin is a commune in northern France, located near Lille in the Nord department of the Hauts-de-France region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Carnac Description of subject: Carnac is a commune in Brittany, northwestern France, best known for its extensive prehistoric standing stone alignments and megalithic sites.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Carnac
linked to: Carnac
linked to: Carnac