Avranches
E322167
Avranches is a historic town in northwestern France, near Mont-Saint-Michel, known for its medieval heritage and role in the liberation of Normandy during World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avranches canonical | 12 |
| d'Avranches | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3007347 — 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: Avranches Context triple: [Manche, subprefecture, Avranches]
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A.
Brouage
Brouage is a historic fortified coastal village in southwestern France, known as the birthplace of explorer Samuel de Champlain and once an important salt-trading port.
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B.
Yvetot
Yvetot is a small town in the Seine-Maritime department of Normandy in northern France, historically known as the seat of a medieval "kingdom" within France.
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C.
Langeac
Langeac is a small commune in south-central France, situated in the Haute-Loire department within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
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D.
Louviers
Louviers is a historic town in northern France’s Normandy region, known for its medieval architecture and former textile industry.
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E.
Coupvray
Coupvray is a small commune in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known for its proximity to Disneyland Paris and as the birthplace of Louis Braille.
- 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: Avranches Target entity description: Avranches is a historic town in northwestern France, near Mont-Saint-Michel, known for its medieval heritage and role in the liberation of Normandy during World War II.
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A.
Brouage
Brouage is a historic fortified coastal village in southwestern France, known as the birthplace of explorer Samuel de Champlain and once an important salt-trading port.
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B.
Yvetot
Yvetot is a small town in the Seine-Maritime department of Normandy in northern France, historically known as the seat of a medieval "kingdom" within France.
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C.
Langeac
Langeac is a small commune in south-central France, situated in the Haute-Loire department within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
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D.
Louviers
Louviers is a historic town in northern France’s Normandy region, known for its medieval architecture and former textile industry.
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E.
Coupvray
Coupvray is a small commune in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known for its proximity to Disneyland Paris and as the birthplace of Louis Braille.
- 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: Avranches Description of subject: Avranches is a historic town in northwestern France, near Mont-Saint-Michel, known for its medieval heritage and role in the liberation of Normandy during World War II.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Manche
subject surface form:
Manche
subject surface form:
Duchy of Normandy
this entity surface form:
d'Avranches