Cachan
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Cachan is a suburban commune in the southern outskirts of Paris, France, known for hosting engineering and higher education institutions such as the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cachan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5021845 — 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: Cachan Context triple: [Bourg-la-Reine, nearbyCommune, Cachan]
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A.
Lübars
Lübars is a historic, village-like district in Berlin’s Reinickendorf borough, known for its rural character, fields, and preserved traditional architecture within the city.
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B.
Kingisepp
Kingisepp is a town in northwestern Russia near the Estonian border, known for its industrial base and historical roots dating back to the 14th century.
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C.
Beran
Beran is a Czech surname most notably borne by Rudolf Beran, a prominent Czechoslovak politician and prime minister before and during the early years of World War II.
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D.
Risca
Risca is a town in south Wales situated in the county borough of Caerphilly, near Newport, with a history rooted in coal mining and industry.
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E.
Sokal
Sokal is a small town in western Ukraine’s Lviv Oblast, historically part of Galicia and situated near the Bug River close to the Polish border.
- 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: Cachan Target entity description: Cachan is a suburban commune in the southern outskirts of Paris, France, known for hosting engineering and higher education institutions such as the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.
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A.
Lübars
Lübars is a historic, village-like district in Berlin’s Reinickendorf borough, known for its rural character, fields, and preserved traditional architecture within the city.
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B.
Kingisepp
Kingisepp is a town in northwestern Russia near the Estonian border, known for its industrial base and historical roots dating back to the 14th century.
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C.
Beran
Beran is a Czech surname most notably borne by Rudolf Beran, a prominent Czechoslovak politician and prime minister before and during the early years of World War II.
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D.
Risca
Risca is a town in south Wales situated in the county borough of Caerphilly, near Newport, with a history rooted in coal mining and industry.
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E.
Sokal
Sokal is a small town in western Ukraine’s Lviv Oblast, historically part of Galicia and situated near the Bug River close to the Polish border.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| areaSquareKilometers | 2.74 ⓘ |
| belongsToIntercommunality | Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| demonym |
Cachanais
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cachanaise ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 94 ⓘ |
| departmentSeat | Créteil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationMaxMeters | 95 ⓘ |
| elevationMinMeters | 35 ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Institut universitaire de technologie de Cachan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lycée polyvalent Maximilien Sorre NERFINISHED ⓘ École Spéciale des Travaux Publics NERFINISHED ⓘ École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay NERFINISHED ⓘ École supérieure d’ingénieurs des travaux de la construction de Cachan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHigherEducationRole |
engineering education hub
ⓘ
research and higher education center ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Aqueduc de Cachan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Église Saint-Jean-l’Évangéliste de Cachan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMayor | Emmanuel Constant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailConnection | RER B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailStation |
Arcueil–Cachan station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bagneux–Lucie Aubrac station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown |
Aveiro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dietzenbach NERFINISHED ⓘ Pápa NERFINISHED ⓘ Sosnowiec NERFINISHED ⓘ Targu Neamț NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 94016 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Val-de-Marne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of Cachan ⓘ northern France NERFINISHED ⓘ southern suburbs of Paris ⓘ Île-de-France region ⓘ
surface form:
Île-de-France
|
| locatedNear | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | river Bièvre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Paris city centre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mayorTerm | 2020–2026 ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
Metropolitan area of Paris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
arrondissement of L’Haÿ-les-Roses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 94230 ⓘ |
| regionCapital | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| suburbanStatus | suburb of Paris ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
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: Cachan Description of subject: Cachan is a suburban commune in the southern outskirts of Paris, France, known for hosting engineering and higher education institutions such as the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.