Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Essonne, France
E559707
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois is a suburban commune in the Essonne department of the Île-de-France region, known as the site of the world’s first modern hypermarket opened by Carrefour.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Essonne, France canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5933570 — 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: Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Essonne, France Context triple: [Carrefour, firstHypermarketLocation, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Essonne, France]
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Rueil-Malmaison, France
Rueil-Malmaison, France is a western suburb of Paris best known as the former residence and place of death of Empress Joséphine, featuring the historic Château de Malmaison.
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B.
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France is an affluent suburban commune just west of central Paris, known for its high standard of living and status as one of the wealthiest areas in the country.
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C.
Corbeil, France
Corbeil, France is a historic town in the Île-de-France region, now part of Corbeil-Essonnes, known for its medieval heritage and proximity to Paris.
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D.
La Neuville-sur-Essonne, France
La Neuville-sur-Essonne is a small commune in north-central France, known in part as the place where renowned conductor Sergiu Celibidache spent his final years and died.
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E.
Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France
Gonesse is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France, historically noted as the crash site of Air France Flight 4590, the Concorde disaster of 2000.
- 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: Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Essonne, France Target entity description: Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois is a suburban commune in the Essonne department of the Île-de-France region, known as the site of the world’s first modern hypermarket opened by Carrefour.
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A.
Rueil-Malmaison, France
Rueil-Malmaison, France is a western suburb of Paris best known as the former residence and place of death of Empress Joséphine, featuring the historic Château de Malmaison.
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B.
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France is an affluent suburban commune just west of central Paris, known for its high standard of living and status as one of the wealthiest areas in the country.
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C.
Corbeil, France
Corbeil, France is a historic town in the Île-de-France region, now part of Corbeil-Essonnes, known for its medieval heritage and proximity to Paris.
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D.
La Neuville-sur-Essonne, France
La Neuville-sur-Essonne is a small commune in north-central France, known in part as the place where renowned conductor Sergiu Celibidache spent his final years and died.
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E.
Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France
Gonesse is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France, historically noted as the crash site of Air France Flight 4590, the Concorde disaster of 2000.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commune of France
ⓘ
suburb of Paris ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | commune with its own mayor ⓘ |
| belongsToIntercommunality | Communauté d’agglomération Cœur d’Essonne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCapital | Évry-Courcouronnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceFromParisCenter | approximately 20 km south ⓘ |
| economicRole | important retail hub in Essonne ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal council of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalFacility |
cultural center
ⓘ
media library ⓘ |
| hasDemographicCharacteristic | suburban population ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
retail trade
ⓘ
services sector ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitutionType |
primary schools
ⓘ
secondary schools ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
large commercial zones
ⓘ
residential suburbs ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Russian Cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | public parks and green spaces ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Russian Orthodox Church of the Dormition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRetailer | Carrefour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsFacility | local sports complexes ⓘ |
| hasTransport |
RER line C (nearby stations)
ⓘ
local bus network ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown |
Bruchsal, Germany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maldon, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ Tebessa, Algeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 91549 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Carrefour hypermarket opened in 1963
ⓘ
site of the world’s first modern hypermarket ⓘ |
| languageUsed | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Essonne department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northern France ⓘ Île-de-France region ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Paris metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Orge river valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Palaiseau
NERFINISHED
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canton of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 91700 ⓘ |
| regionCapital | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
A6 motorway (nearby)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
N104 Francilienne ring road (nearby) ⓘ |
| timeZone |
CEST
ⓘ
CET ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Essonne, France Description of subject: Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois is a suburban commune in the Essonne department of the Île-de-France region, known as the site of the world’s first modern hypermarket opened by Carrefour.
Referenced by (1)
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