Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville, Caen
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Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville in Caen is a contemporary public library and cultural hub known for its striking modern architecture designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville | 1 |
| Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville, Caen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5001323 — 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: Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville, Caen Context triple: [OMA, notableWork, Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville, Caen]
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A.
Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France
The Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France is a prestigious Parisian research library renowned for its vast collections of manuscripts, rare books, and scholarly works associated with the academies of the Institut de France.
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B.
Collège de France library
The Collège de France library is the research and reference library of the Collège de France in Paris, supporting advanced scholarship across a wide range of academic disciplines.
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C.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen is a major French fine arts museum renowned for its rich collection of European paintings from the 15th to the 20th century, housed within the historic Caen Castle.
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D.
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève is a major 19th-century public and university library in Paris, renowned for its iron-framed reading room and extensive humanities collections.
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E.
Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand
Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand is a major Paris Métro station in the 13th arrondissement, serving the area around the French National Library complex of the same name.
- 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: Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville, Caen Target entity description: Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville in Caen is a contemporary public library and cultural hub known for its striking modern architecture designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
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A.
Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France
The Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France is a prestigious Parisian research library renowned for its vast collections of manuscripts, rare books, and scholarly works associated with the academies of the Institut de France.
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B.
Collège de France library
The Collège de France library is the research and reference library of the Collège de France in Paris, supporting advanced scholarship across a wide range of academic disciplines.
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C.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen is a major French fine arts museum renowned for its rich collection of European paintings from the 15th to the 20th century, housed within the historic Caen Castle.
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D.
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève is a major 19th-century public and university library in Paris, renowned for its iron-framed reading room and extensive humanities collections.
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E.
Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand
Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand is a major Paris Métro station in the 13th arrondissement, serving the area around the French National Library complex of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural center
ⓘ
public library ⓘ |
| architect |
OMA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Office for Metropolitan Architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ Rem Koolhaas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
contemporary architecture
ⓘ
modern architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Caen
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Libraries in Caen ⓘ Public libraries in France ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
cultural activities
ⓘ
public reading ⓘ |
| floorCount | 4 ⓘ |
| hasCollection |
books
ⓘ
digital media ⓘ multimedia resources ⓘ periodicals ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
conference and event space
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cultural programming venue ⓘ exhibition space ⓘ lending library ⓘ reading rooms ⓘ |
| hasPart |
auditorium
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café ⓘ children’s area ⓘ exhibition hall ⓘ study spaces ⓘ teen area ⓘ terrace ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://bibliotheques.caenlamer.fr ⓘ |
| inception | 2017 ⓘ |
| languageOfService | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Calvados
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Europe/Paris ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody | Presqu’île de Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alexis de Tocqueville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
X-shaped plan
ⓘ
central atrium ⓘ glass façade ⓘ panoramic views of Caen ⓘ |
| openingDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| operator | City of Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
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: Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville, Caen Description of subject: Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville in Caen is a contemporary public library and cultural hub known for its striking modern architecture designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bibliothèque Alexis de Tocqueville