Arrondissement of Avranches
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The Arrondissement of Avranches is an administrative district in the Manche department of northwestern France, encompassing several communes and towns including Mortain.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arrondissement of Avranches canonical | 3 |
| Avranches arrondissement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4702012 — 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: Arrondissement of Avranches Context triple: [Mortain, locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity, Arrondissement of Avranches]
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A.
Arrondissement of Caen
The Arrondissement of Caen is an administrative district in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the city of Caen and encompassing numerous surrounding communes.
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B.
arrondissement of Cherbourg
The arrondissement of Cherbourg is an administrative district in the Manche department of Normandy, France, centered on the port city of Cherbourg and encompassing several surrounding communes.
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C.
arrondissement of Saint-Lô
The arrondissement of Saint-Lô is an administrative district in the Manche department of northwestern France, centered on the town of Saint-Lô and encompassing several communes including Carentan-les-Marais.
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D.
arrondissement of Rouen
The arrondissement of Rouen is an administrative district in the Seine-Maritime department of northern France, centered on the city of Rouen and encompassing numerous surrounding communes.
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E.
arrondissement of Bayeux
The arrondissement of Bayeux is an administrative district in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the historic town of Bayeux and encompassing several surrounding communes.
- 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: Arrondissement of Avranches Target entity description: The Arrondissement of Avranches is an administrative district in the Manche department of northwestern France, encompassing several communes and towns including Mortain.
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A.
Arrondissement of Caen
The Arrondissement of Caen is an administrative district in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the city of Caen and encompassing numerous surrounding communes.
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B.
arrondissement of Cherbourg
The arrondissement of Cherbourg is an administrative district in the Manche department of Normandy, France, centered on the port city of Cherbourg and encompassing several surrounding communes.
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C.
arrondissement of Saint-Lô
The arrondissement of Saint-Lô is an administrative district in the Manche department of northwestern France, centered on the town of Saint-Lô and encompassing several communes including Carentan-les-Marais.
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D.
arrondissement of Rouen
The arrondissement of Rouen is an administrative district in the Seine-Maritime department of northern France, centered on the city of Rouen and encompassing numerous surrounding communes.
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E.
arrondissement of Bayeux
The arrondissement of Bayeux is an administrative district in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the historic town of Bayeux and encompassing several surrounding communes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | arrondissement of France ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Avranches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionOf | Manche department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borders | English Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Avranches
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barenton NERFINISHED ⓘ Brécey NERFINISHED ⓘ Carolles NERFINISHED ⓘ Ducey-Les Chéris NERFINISHED ⓘ Granville NERFINISHED ⓘ Isigny-le-Buat NERFINISHED ⓘ Jullouville NERFINISHED ⓘ La Haye-Pesnel NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Teilleul NERFINISHED ⓘ Mont-Saint-Michel Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Mortain NERFINISHED ⓘ Pontorson NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-James NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Pair-sur-Mer NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Pois NERFINISHED ⓘ Sartilly-Baie-Bocage NERFINISHED ⓘ Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| governedBy | subprefect ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
coastal areas
ⓘ
rural hinterland ⓘ small and medium-sized towns ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver | local administration of its communes ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalSeat | town of Avranches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision | commune of France ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Normandy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
north of the Brittany region ⓘ northwestern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Manche department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
region of Normandy ⓘ |
| seatType | subprefecture ⓘ |
| statisticalUnitOf | French national statistics system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | arrondissement ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| usedFor |
electoral organization
ⓘ
judicial organization ⓘ state administration ⓘ |
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: Arrondissement of Avranches Description of subject: The Arrondissement of Avranches is an administrative district in the Manche department of northwestern France, encompassing several communes and towns including Mortain.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Avranches arrondissement
subject surface form:
Granville