Château de Caen
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Château de Caen is a large medieval fortress in the city of Caen, Normandy, notable for its historical role as a ducal castle of William the Conqueror and its well-preserved ramparts and museums.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Château de Caen canonical | 7 |
| Caen Castle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4299479 — 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: Château de Caen Context triple: [Caen, hasLandmark, Château de Caen]
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Château d’Angers
Château d’Angers is a massive medieval fortress in the city of Angers in western France, renowned for its imposing walls and for housing the famous Apocalypse Tapestry.
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Château de Blois
The Château de Blois is a historic royal castle in the Loire Valley of France, renowned for its blend of Gothic, Renaissance, and Classical architecture and its role as a major residence of French kings.
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Château Gaillard, Normandy
Château Gaillard in Normandy is a formidable medieval fortress overlooking the Seine, historically significant as a royal stronghold and later a place of imprisonment and exile.
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Château de Brest
Château de Brest is a historic fortress in the French port city of Brest, long serving as a key military stronghold and one of the oldest castles in the world still in use.
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Château de Saumur
Château de Saumur is a historic medieval fortress-turned-château in western France, overlooking the Loire River and renowned for its picturesque towers and role in the region’s royal and military history.
- 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: Château de Caen Target entity description: Château de Caen is a large medieval fortress in the city of Caen, Normandy, notable for its historical role as a ducal castle of William the Conqueror and its well-preserved ramparts and museums.
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A.
Château d’Angers
Château d’Angers is a massive medieval fortress in the city of Angers in western France, renowned for its imposing walls and for housing the famous Apocalypse Tapestry.
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B.
Château de Blois
The Château de Blois is a historic royal castle in the Loire Valley of France, renowned for its blend of Gothic, Renaissance, and Classical architecture and its role as a major residence of French kings.
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C.
Château Gaillard, Normandy
Château Gaillard in Normandy is a formidable medieval fortress overlooking the Seine, historically significant as a royal stronghold and later a place of imprisonment and exile.
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D.
Château de Brest
Château de Brest is a historic fortress in the French port city of Brest, long serving as a key military stronghold and one of the oldest castles in the world still in use.
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E.
Château de Saumur
Château de Saumur is a historic medieval fortress-turned-château in western France, overlooking the Loire River and renowned for its picturesque towers and role in the region’s royal and military history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Château de Caen Description of subject: Château de Caen is a large medieval fortress in the city of Caen, Normandy, notable for its historical role as a ducal castle of William the Conqueror and its well-preserved ramparts and museums.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Château de Caen