Caisse d’Epargne
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Caisse d’Epargne was a French professional road cycling team, sponsored by the French savings bank group of the same name, that competed at the highest level of the sport in the 2000s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caisse d’Epargne canonical | 3 |
| Caisse d’Epargne (bank) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3455989 — 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: Caisse d’Epargne Context triple: [Reynolds, successorTeam, Caisse d’Epargne]
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A.
Société Générale
Société Générale is a major French multinational investment and retail bank and financial services company headquartered in Paris.
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B.
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas is a major French international banking group and one of the largest financial institutions in Europe.
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C.
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations is a French public financial institution that manages long-term investments and savings on behalf of the state and public interest missions.
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D.
Bank Al-Maghrib
Bank Al-Maghrib is the central bank of Morocco, responsible for formulating monetary policy, maintaining financial stability, and managing the country’s currency and reserves.
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E.
Rothschild & Cie Banque
Rothschild & Cie Banque is a prominent French investment bank known for its advisory work on major mergers, acquisitions, and financial transactions.
- 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: Caisse d’Epargne Target entity description: Caisse d’Epargne was a French professional road cycling team, sponsored by the French savings bank group of the same name, that competed at the highest level of the sport in the 2000s.
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A.
Société Générale
Société Générale is a major French multinational investment and retail bank and financial services company headquartered in Paris.
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B.
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas is a major French international banking group and one of the largest financial institutions in Europe.
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C.
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations is a French public financial institution that manages long-term investments and savings on behalf of the state and public interest missions.
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D.
Bank Al-Maghrib
Bank Al-Maghrib is the central bank of Morocco, responsible for formulating monetary policy, maintaining financial stability, and managing the country’s currency and reserves.
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E.
Rothschild & Cie Banque
Rothschild & Cie Banque is a prominent French investment bank known for its advisory work on major mergers, acquisitions, and financial transactions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UCI ProTeam
ⓘ
professional road cycling team ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 2000s ⓘ |
| basedOnStructureOf | Banesto cycling team ⓘ |
| competitionLevel |
UCI WorldTour
ⓘ
surface form:
UCI ProTour
UCI WorldTour predecessor ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| discipline | road ⓘ |
| era | early 21st century professional cycling ⓘ |
| formerName |
Banesto
ⓘ
Illes Balears–Banesto ⓘ
surface form:
Illes Balears-Banesto
|
| governingBody | Union Cycliste Internationale ⓘ |
| knownFor |
focus on stage races
ⓘ
strong general classification riders ⓘ |
| mainSponsorCountry | France ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Tour de France overall victory with Óscar Pereiro (after disqualification of Floyd Landis)
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multiple Tour de France stage wins ⓘ multiple Vuelta a España stage wins ⓘ overall podium finishes in Grand Tours ⓘ wins in major one‑day races and week‑long stage races ⓘ |
| notableRider |
Alejandro Valverde
ⓘ
David Arroyo ⓘ Francisco Mancebo ⓘ Imanol Erviti ⓘ José Iván Gutiérrez ⓘ Luis León Sánchez ⓘ Marzio Bruseghin NERFINISHED ⓘ Pablo Lastras ⓘ Rigoberto Urán ⓘ Vladimir Karpets NERFINISHED ⓘ Óscar Pereiro ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Giro d'Italia
ⓘ
surface form:
Giro d’Italia
Tour de France ⓘ UCI ProSeries ⓘ
surface form:
UCI ProTour races
Vuelta a España ⓘ |
| registeredIn | Spain ⓘ |
| sponsor |
Caisse d’Epargne
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Caisse d’Epargne (bank)
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| sponsorIndustry | financial services ⓘ |
| sponsorType | savings bank ⓘ |
| sport | road cycling ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successorTeam |
Movistar
ⓘ
surface form:
Movistar Team
|
| teamCode | GCE ⓘ |
| teamType | men’s team ⓘ |
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: Caisse d’Epargne Description of subject: Caisse d’Epargne was a French professional road cycling team, sponsored by the French savings bank group of the same name, that competed at the highest level of the sport in the 2000s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Caisse d’Epargne (bank)