Sorbon
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Sorbon is a small commune in the Ardennes department of northern France, historically notable as the birthplace of theologian Robert de Sorbon, founder of the Sorbonne.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sorbon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3926762 — 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: Sorbon Context triple: [Robert de Sorbon, placeOfBirth, Sorbon]
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A.
La Sorbonne
La Sorbonne is a historic university building in Paris that has long served as a central symbol of French higher education and intellectual life.
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B.
de Sorbon
de Sorbon is the surname of Robert de Sorbon, the 13th-century French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris.
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C.
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University is a major public research university in Paris renowned for its historic humanities, science, and medical faculties.
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D.
College of Louis le Grand
The College of Louis le Grand is a prestigious Parisian secondary school and former Jesuit institution historically known for educating many prominent political, intellectual, and literary figures.
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E.
Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Panthéon-Sorbonne University is a prestigious Parisian institution renowned for its programs in law, humanities, and social sciences, and its historical roots in the University of Paris.
- 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: Sorbon Target entity description: Sorbon is a small commune in the Ardennes department of northern France, historically notable as the birthplace of theologian Robert de Sorbon, founder of the Sorbonne.
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A.
La Sorbonne
La Sorbonne is a historic university building in Paris that has long served as a central symbol of French higher education and intellectual life.
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B.
de Sorbon
de Sorbon is the surname of Robert de Sorbon, the 13th-century French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris.
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C.
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University is a major public research university in Paris renowned for its historic humanities, science, and medical faculties.
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D.
College of Louis le Grand
The College of Louis le Grand is a prestigious Parisian secondary school and former Jesuit institution historically known for educating many prominent political, intellectual, and literary figures.
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E.
Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Panthéon-Sorbonne University is a prestigious Parisian institution renowned for its programs in law, humanities, and social sciences, and its historical roots in the University of Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| birthplaceOf | Robert de Sorbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| governedAs | municipality ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeDivisionType | commune ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasFoundingPeriod | medieval era ⓘ |
| hasGeographicalFeature | rural landscape ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSignificance | birthplace of the founder of the Sorbonne ⓘ |
| hasINSEECode | 08427 ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasMayor | (current mayor; term may vary) ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatus | commune ⓘ |
| hasNotableResident | Robert de Sorbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | small population ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 08300 ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | rural commune ⓘ |
| hasReligiousHeritage | Roman Catholic tradition ⓘ |
| hasRoadAccess | local departmental roads ⓘ |
| isPartOf | French Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ardennes department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grand Est ⓘ
surface form:
Grand Est region
northern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| namedAfter | local toponym Sorbon ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Rethel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of Rethel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Central European Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sorbon Description of subject: Sorbon is a small commune in the Ardennes department of northern France, historically notable as the birthplace of theologian Robert de Sorbon, founder of the Sorbonne.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Robert de Sorbon