Saint-Calais, Sarthe, France
E579037
Saint-Calais is a small historic commune in the Sarthe department of northwestern France, known for its medieval heritage and traditional rural character.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint-Calais, Sarthe, France canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6244934 — 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: Saint-Calais, Sarthe, France Context triple: [William of St-Calais, birthPlace, Saint-Calais, Sarthe, France]
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A.
Saint-Saturnin, Calvados, France
Saint-Saturnin, Calvados, France is a small commune in the Normandy region best known as the birthplace of French Revolution figure Charlotte Corday.
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B.
Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Mont-Saint-Aignan, France is a suburban commune near Rouen in Normandy, known as a residential and educational center and as the birthplace of legendary cyclist Jacques Anquetil.
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C.
Val-de-Reuil, France
Val-de-Reuil is a planned new town in the Eure department of Normandy in northern France, known for its modern urban design and industrial and technological activities.
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D.
Plessis-lès-Tours, France
Plessis-lès-Tours is a historic locality near Tours in central France, notable as a former royal residence and the place where Saint Francis of Paola died.
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E.
Neauphle-le-Château, France
Neauphle-le-Château is a small village in northern France best known as the place where Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini lived in exile shortly before the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
- 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: Saint-Calais, Sarthe, France Target entity description: Saint-Calais is a small historic commune in the Sarthe department of northwestern France, known for its medieval heritage and traditional rural character.
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A.
Saint-Saturnin, Calvados, France
Saint-Saturnin, Calvados, France is a small commune in the Normandy region best known as the birthplace of French Revolution figure Charlotte Corday.
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B.
Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Mont-Saint-Aignan, France is a suburban commune near Rouen in Normandy, known as a residential and educational center and as the birthplace of legendary cyclist Jacques Anquetil.
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C.
Val-de-Reuil, France
Val-de-Reuil is a planned new town in the Eure department of Normandy in northern France, known for its modern urban design and industrial and technological activities.
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D.
Plessis-lès-Tours, France
Plessis-lès-Tours is a historic locality near Tours in central France, notable as a former royal residence and the place where Saint Francis of Paola died.
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E.
Neauphle-le-Château, France
Neauphle-le-Château is a small village in northern France best known as the place where Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini lived in exile shortly before the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeTerritoryOf | Sarthe department ⓘ |
| climate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal council ⓘ |
| hasBuilding |
historic town hall
ⓘ
Église Saint-Calais ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | traditional rural character ⓘ |
| hasCulturalHeritage |
religious architecture
ⓘ
rural traditions ⓘ |
| hasDepartmentCode | 72 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
local services ⓘ small-scale commerce ⓘ |
| hasFeature | historic town center ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | medieval heritage ⓘ |
| hasINSEECode | 72269 ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural land
ⓘ
forested areas ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 72120 ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | INSEE region code 52 (Pays de la Loire) ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Catholic parish church ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | small town ⓘ |
| hasStatus | commune with its own mayor ⓘ |
| hasSurroundings | countryside and farmland ⓘ |
| hasUrbanForm | compact historic core ⓘ |
| languageUsed | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pays de la Loire region
ⓘ
linked to:
Pays de la Loire
Sarthe department ⓘ historical province of Maine ⓘ
linked to:
County of Maine
northwestern France ⓘ
linked to:
Western France
|
| locatedNear | Le Mans ⓘ |
| locatedOn | river Anille ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Mamers
ⓘ
canton of Saint-Calais ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
D357 road
ⓘ
local departmental roads ⓘ |
| roadDistanceTo |
Le Mans, approximately 40–50 km east
ⓘ
linked to:
Le Mans
|
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
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: Saint-Calais, Sarthe, France Description of subject: Saint-Calais is a small historic commune in the Sarthe department of northwestern France, known for its medieval heritage and traditional rural character.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bishop William of St-Calais