Montreuil-sur-Mer
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Montreuil-sur-Mer is a small historic town in northern France, notably serving as a key setting in Victor Hugo’s novel "Les Misérables."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Montreuil-sur-Mer canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5736692 — 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: Montreuil-sur-Mer Context triple: [Fantine, diesIn, Montreuil-sur-Mer]
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A.
Boulogne-sur-Seine
Boulogne-sur-Seine was a former commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, now part of Boulogne-Billancourt, known historically as a residential and industrial area along the Seine River.
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B.
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city and major fishing port in northern France, located on the English Channel in the Pas-de-Calais department.
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C.
Pont-Saint-Martin
Pont-Saint-Martin is a small town in Italy’s Aosta Valley, known as a historic gateway to the region and for its ancient Roman bridge.
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D.
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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E.
Berck-sur-Mer
Berck-sur-Mer is a seaside resort town in northern France known for its sandy beaches, coastal tourism, and traditional fishing heritage.
- 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: Montreuil-sur-Mer Target entity description: Montreuil-sur-Mer is a small historic town in northern France, notably serving as a key setting in Victor Hugo’s novel "Les Misérables."
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A.
Boulogne-sur-Seine
Boulogne-sur-Seine was a former commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, now part of Boulogne-Billancourt, known historically as a residential and industrial area along the Seine River.
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B.
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city and major fishing port in northern France, located on the English Channel in the Pas-de-Calais department.
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C.
Pont-Saint-Martin
Pont-Saint-Martin is a small town in Italy’s Aosta Valley, known as a historic gateway to the region and for its ancient Roman bridge.
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D.
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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E.
Berck-sur-Mer
Berck-sur-Mer is a seaside resort town in northern France known for its sandy beaches, coastal tourism, and traditional fishing heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | subprefecture ⓘ |
| appearsIn | adaptations of Les Misérables ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| demonyms | Montreuillois ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 62 ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 10 km from the Channel coast ⓘ |
| elevation | hilltop location ⓘ |
| governedBy | mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOfWorkSetThere | Victor Hugo ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
gastronomy
ⓘ
local commerce ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
citadel
ⓘ
cobbled streets ⓘ medieval ramparts ⓘ old town walls ⓘ |
| hasFestival | Les Misérables-themed cultural events ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | official website of Montreuil-sur-Mer town hall ⓘ |
| hasPopulation | approximately 2000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Saint-Saulve church ⓘ |
| hasStructure | Citadel of Montreuil-sur-Mer ⓘ |
| hasTransport | Montreuil-sur-Mer railway station ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic town ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Artois ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
fortified town
ⓘ
important medieval port ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 62588 ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hauts-de-France
ⓘ
Pas-de-Calais ⓘ northern France ⓘ |
| locatedNear | English Channel ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Canche river ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Boulogne-sur-Mer
ⓘ
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage ⓘ
linked to:
Le Touquet
|
| notableFor |
historic town center
ⓘ
role as a key setting in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables ⓘ well-preserved ramparts ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Montreuil
ⓘ
canton of Berck ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62170 ⓘ |
| regionCapitalDistance | approximately 70 km from Lille ⓘ |
| timeZone |
CEST
ⓘ
CET ⓘ |
| tourismAttractionType | walled hill town ⓘ |
| usedAsSettingIn | Les Misérables ⓘ |
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: Montreuil-sur-Mer Description of subject: Montreuil-sur-Mer is a small historic town in northern France, notably serving as a key setting in Victor Hugo’s novel "Les Misérables."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.