canton of Thoiry
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The canton of Thoiry was a former administrative division in the Ain department of eastern France, grouping several communes including Thoiry before being disbanded in the 2015 French canton reorganisation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| canton of Thoiry canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3852053 — 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: canton of Thoiry Context triple: [Thoiry (Ain), partOf, canton of Thoiry]
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canton of Thiais
The canton of Thiais is an administrative division in the Val-de-Marne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France, grouping several southeastern Paris suburbs including Rungis.
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canton of Cuiseaux
The canton of Cuiseaux was a former administrative division in the Saône-et-Loire department in eastern France, centered on the commune of Cuiseaux and comprising several surrounding municipalities.
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canton of Thonon-les-Bains
The canton of Thonon-les-Bains is an administrative division in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, centered on the spa and lakeside town of Thonon-les-Bains on the shores of Lake Geneva.
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canton of Montmorency
The canton of Montmorency is an administrative division in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France that groups together several communes, including Soisy-sous-Montmorency.
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E.
canton of Châtenay-Malabry
The canton of Châtenay-Malabry is an administrative division in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region in northern France, centered on the suburban commune of Châtenay-Malabry.
- 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: canton of Thoiry Target entity description: The canton of Thoiry was a former administrative division in the Ain department of eastern France, grouping several communes including Thoiry before being disbanded in the 2015 French canton reorganisation.
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A.
canton of Thiais
The canton of Thiais is an administrative division in the Val-de-Marne department in the Île-de-France region of northern France, grouping several southeastern Paris suburbs including Rungis.
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B.
canton of Cuiseaux
The canton of Cuiseaux was a former administrative division in the Saône-et-Loire department in eastern France, centered on the commune of Cuiseaux and comprising several surrounding municipalities.
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C.
canton of Thonon-les-Bains
The canton of Thonon-les-Bains is an administrative division in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, centered on the spa and lakeside town of Thonon-les-Bains on the shores of Lake Geneva.
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D.
canton of Montmorency
The canton of Montmorency is an administrative division in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France that groups together several communes, including Soisy-sous-Montmorency.
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E.
canton of Châtenay-Malabry
The canton of Châtenay-Malabry is an administrative division in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region in northern France, centered on the suburban commune of Châtenay-Malabry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former French canton ⓘ |
| area | 128.37 square kilometres ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Switzerland ⓘ |
| capital | Thoiry ⓘ |
| containsAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Chevry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crozet ⓘ Farges ⓘ Léaz ⓘ Prévessin-Moëns ⓘ Péron ⓘ Saint-Genis-Pouilly ⓘ Saint-Jean-de-Gonville ⓘ Sergy ⓘ Ségny ⓘ Thoiry ⓘ Versonnex ⓘ Échenevex ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| disestablished | 2015 ⓘ |
| dissolvedIn | 2015 French canton reorganisation ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalStatus | disbanded administrative division ⓘ |
| INSEECode | 01 31 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern France ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Ain department
ⓘ
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region ⓘ
surface form:
Rhône-Alpes region
|
| locatedNear | Geneva ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thoiry ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Gex
ⓘ
former cantons of Ain ⓘ |
| population | 16778 ⓘ |
| populationAsOf | 2012 ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | canton ⓘ |
| timePeriod | before 2015 ⓘ |
| usedFor | local elections in France ⓘ |
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: canton of Thoiry Description of subject: The canton of Thoiry was a former administrative division in the Ain department of eastern France, grouping several communes including Thoiry before being disbanded in the 2015 French canton reorganisation.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thoiry (Ain)