Douaumont military cemetery
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Douaumont military cemetery is a major World War I burial ground near Verdun in northeastern France, commemorating tens of thousands of French soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Douaumont military cemetery canonical | 1 |
| Fleury-devant-Douaumont necropolis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3304156 — 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: Douaumont military cemetery Context triple: [Verdun, France, hasMilitaryCemetery, Douaumont military cemetery]
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A.
Templeux-le-Guérard British Cemetery
Templeux-le-Guérard British Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in northern France where soldiers of World War I, including British politician and officer Valentine Fleming, are buried.
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B.
Fricourt German war cemetery
Fricourt German war cemetery is a World War I military burial ground in the Somme region of France where many German soldiers, including the famed fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, are interred.
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Heverlee War Cemetery
Heverlee War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission military cemetery in Heverlee, Belgium, where many Allied soldiers who died in World War II are buried.
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D.
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery is a World War I military burial ground in France honoring American soldiers who died in the region’s battles.
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E.
Somme American Cemetery
Somme American Cemetery is a World War I military burial ground in France honoring American soldiers who fought and died in the Somme 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: Douaumont military cemetery Target entity description: Douaumont military cemetery is a major World War I burial ground near Verdun in northeastern France, commemorating tens of thousands of French soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun.
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A.
Templeux-le-Guérard British Cemetery
Templeux-le-Guérard British Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in northern France where soldiers of World War I, including British politician and officer Valentine Fleming, are buried.
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B.
Fricourt German war cemetery
Fricourt German war cemetery is a World War I military burial ground in the Somme region of France where many German soldiers, including the famed fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, are interred.
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C.
Heverlee War Cemetery
Heverlee War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission military cemetery in Heverlee, Belgium, where many Allied soldiers who died in World War II are buried.
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D.
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery
Oise-Aisne American Cemetery is a World War I military burial ground in France honoring American soldiers who died in the region’s battles.
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E.
Somme American Cemetery
Somme American Cemetery is a World War I military burial ground in France honoring American soldiers who fought and died in the Somme region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Douaumont military cemetery Description of subject: Douaumont military cemetery is a major World War I burial ground near Verdun in northeastern France, commemorating tens of thousands of French soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fleury-devant-Douaumont necropolis