Aunis
E496848
Aunis was a historic coastal province in western France centered around the port city of La Rochelle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aunis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5134467 — 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: Aunis Context triple: [Duchy of Aquitaine, contains, Aunis]
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A.
Greuze
Greuze is a French surname most famously associated with Jean-Baptiste Greuze, an 18th-century painter known for his sentimental and moralizing genre scenes.
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B.
Catroux
Catroux is a French surname most notably borne by Georges Catroux, a prominent French general and diplomat of the 20th century.
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C.
Aulon
Aulon is the historical name of the coastal city now known as Vlorë in southern Albania, an important port with ancient Greek and Roman roots.
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D.
Falconet
Falconet is a French surname most notably associated with Étienne-Maurice Falconet, an 18th-century sculptor renowned for works such as the Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg.
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E.
Maurus
Maurus is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with early Christian saints and used as a variant of names like Maurice.
- 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: Aunis Target entity description: Aunis was a historic coastal province in western France centered around the port city of La Rochelle.
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A.
Greuze
Greuze is a French surname most famously associated with Jean-Baptiste Greuze, an 18th-century painter known for his sentimental and moralizing genre scenes.
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B.
Catroux
Catroux is a French surname most notably borne by Georges Catroux, a prominent French general and diplomat of the 20th century.
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C.
Aulon
Aulon is the historical name of the coastal city now known as Vlorë in southern Albania, an important port with ancient Greek and Roman roots.
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D.
Falconet
Falconet is a French surname most notably associated with Étienne-Maurice Falconet, an 18th-century sculptor renowned for works such as the Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg.
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E.
Maurus
Maurus is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with early Christian saints and used as a variant of names like Maurice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former province of France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | no longer an official administrative unit ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| coastalRegion | true ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| geographicalFeature |
coastal plain
ⓘ
marshlands ⓘ |
| hasCapital | La Rochelle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCity |
Chatelaillon-Plage
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fouras NERFINISHED ⓘ La Rochelle NERFINISHED ⓘ Marans NERFINISHED ⓘ Rochefort NERFINISHED ⓘ Surgeres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorPort | La Rochelle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalCapital | La Rochelle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalProvinceOf | La Rochelle region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegionOf | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
maritime trade
ⓘ
oyster farming ⓘ salt marshes ⓘ strategic Atlantic port ⓘ |
| languageHistoricallySpoken |
French
ⓘ
Saintongeais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Charente-Maritime
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nouvelle-Aquitaine ⓘ western France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedInto |
Charente-Inférieure
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charente-Maritime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | historic provinces of France ⓘ |
| presentDayTerritoryMostlyIn | Charente-Maritime department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionType | historic coastal province ⓘ |
| religiousHistory | important center of French Protestantism ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Ancien Régime
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: Aunis Description of subject: Aunis was a historic coastal province in western France centered around the port city of La Rochelle.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.