La Rochelle
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La Rochelle is a historic French Atlantic port city that became a major stronghold and refuge for Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Rochelle canonical | 49 |
| La Rochelle, France | 3 |
| La Rochelle city center | 2 |
| Ville de La Rochelle | 2 |
| city of La Rochelle | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T181808 — 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: La Rochelle Context triple: [Huguenots, centerOfActivity, La Rochelle]
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A.
Nantes
Nantes is a historic port city in western France on the Loire River, known for its maritime heritage, cultural institutions, and vibrant arts scene.
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B.
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a central French city known for its historic cathedral built of black volcanic stone and as the longtime headquarters of the tire company Michelin.
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C.
Brive-la-Gaillarde
Brive-la-Gaillarde is a historic town in the Corrèze department of south-central France, known for its medieval architecture, vibrant market culture, and role as a regional economic center.
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D.
Toulouse
Toulouse is a major city in southwestern France known for its aerospace industry, historic pink-brick architecture, and vibrant university and cultural life.
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E.
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a renowned wine-producing region in southwestern France, famous for its prestigious red blends and long winemaking tradition.
- 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: La Rochelle Target entity description: La Rochelle is a historic French Atlantic port city that became a major stronghold and refuge for Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion.
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A.
Nantes
Nantes is a historic port city in western France on the Loire River, known for its maritime heritage, cultural institutions, and vibrant arts scene.
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B.
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a central French city known for its historic cathedral built of black volcanic stone and as the longtime headquarters of the tire company Michelin.
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C.
Brive-la-Gaillarde
Brive-la-Gaillarde is a historic town in the Corrèze department of south-central France, known for its medieval architecture, vibrant market culture, and role as a regional economic center.
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D.
Toulouse
Toulouse is a major city in southwestern France known for its aerospace industry, historic pink-brick architecture, and vibrant university and cultural life.
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E.
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a renowned wine-producing region in southwestern France, famous for its prestigious red blends and long winemaking tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: La Rochelle Description of subject: La Rochelle is a historic French Atlantic port city that became a major stronghold and refuge for Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion.
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Southwestern France
subject surface form:
Calypso
subject surface form:
Petrozavodsk
this entity surface form:
La Rochelle, France
this entity surface form:
La Rochelle, France
this entity surface form:
La Rochelle, France
this entity surface form:
La Rochelle city center
this entity surface form:
city of La Rochelle
this entity surface form:
city of La Rochelle
this entity surface form:
Ville de La Rochelle
this entity surface form:
Ville de La Rochelle
subject surface form:
Francofolies de La Rochelle
subject surface form:
Francofolies de La Rochelle
this entity surface form:
La Rochelle city center