Isigny-sur-Mer
E476618
Isigny-sur-Mer is a coastal commune in Normandy, France, renowned for its dairy products—especially butter and cream—and its historic port.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isigny-sur-Mer canonical | 2 |
| Isigny-sur-Mer port | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4769962 — 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: Isigny-sur-Mer Context triple: [Calvados, contains, Isigny-sur-Mer]
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A.
Trouville-sur-Mer
Trouville-sur-Mer is a seaside resort town on the Normandy coast of northwestern France, known for its beaches, fishing port, and 19th-century villas.
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B.
Cabourg
Cabourg is a seaside resort town in northwestern France, known for its Belle Époque architecture, sandy beaches, and association with writer Marcel Proust.
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C.
Fos-sur-Mer
Fos-sur-Mer is a coastal industrial town in southern France known for its large port facilities and heavy industry along the Mediterranean.
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D.
Vierville-sur-Mer
Vierville-sur-Mer is a coastal commune in Normandy, France, historically significant as one of the key landing areas during the D-Day invasion of World War II.
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E.
Valognes
Valognes is a historic town in northwestern France known for its elegant 17th- and 18th-century mansions and its location on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy.
- 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: Isigny-sur-Mer Target entity description: Isigny-sur-Mer is a coastal commune in Normandy, France, renowned for its dairy products—especially butter and cream—and its historic port.
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A.
Trouville-sur-Mer
Trouville-sur-Mer is a seaside resort town on the Normandy coast of northwestern France, known for its beaches, fishing port, and 19th-century villas.
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B.
Cabourg
Cabourg is a seaside resort town in northwestern France, known for its Belle Époque architecture, sandy beaches, and association with writer Marcel Proust.
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C.
Fos-sur-Mer
Fos-sur-Mer is a coastal industrial town in southern France known for its large port facilities and heavy industry along the Mediterranean.
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D.
Vierville-sur-Mer
Vierville-sur-Mer is a coastal commune in Normandy, France, historically significant as one of the key landing areas during the D-Day invasion of World War II.
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E.
Valognes
Valognes is a historic town in northwestern France known for its elegant 17th- and 18th-century mansions and its location on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | chef-lieu of its canton ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsFeature | ship motif ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 14 ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
dairy industry ⓘ shellfish farming ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasPort |
Isigny-sur-Mer port
ⓘ
linked to:
Isigny-sur-Mer
|
| hasProtectedDesignation |
AOP Beurre d’Isigny
ⓘ
linked to:
Isigny butter
AOP Crème d’Isigny ⓘ |
| hasRailConnection | nearby Carentan railway station ⓘ |
| historicalEvent |
affected by Normandy landings in 1944
ⓘ
heavily damaged during World War II ⓘ |
| historicRegion |
Lower Normandy
ⓘ
linked to:
Lower Normandy (historical)
|
| INSEECODE | 14342 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Norman gastronomy
ⓘ
caramel and confectionery based on Isigny butter ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| localLanguage |
Norman
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Norman
|
| locatedIn |
Bay of Veys
ⓘ
Bessin area ⓘ
linked to:
Bessin
Calvados department ⓘ Normandy ⓘ northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Normandy landing beaches
ⓘ
linked to:
D-Day landing area
Utah Beach ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Aure River
ⓘ
English Channel ⓘ Vire River estuary ⓘ
linked to:
Vire estuary
|
| notableFor |
AOC Isigny dairy products
ⓘ
Isigny butter ⓘ Isigny cream ⓘ dairy production ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Bayeux
ⓘ
canton of Isigny-sur-Mer ⓘ |
| population | approximately 4000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| portType |
fishing port
ⓘ
historic commercial port ⓘ |
| postalCode | 14230 ⓘ |
| rebuiltInPeriod | post-World War II ⓘ |
| region |
Normandy region
ⓘ
linked to:
Normandy (administrative region)
|
| roadAccess | A84 motorway vicinity ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| twinnedWith |
Castlereagh
ⓘ
Kingsbridge ⓘ |
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: Isigny-sur-Mer Description of subject: Isigny-sur-Mer is a coastal commune in Normandy, France, renowned for its dairy products—especially butter and cream—and its historic port.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Isigny-sur-Mer