Auray
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Auray is a historic coastal town in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its picturesque old port of Saint-Goustan and medieval architecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Auray canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6340698 — 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: Auray Context triple: [Morbihan, contains, Auray]
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A.
Gouvy
Gouvy is a rural municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, known for its natural landscapes and proximity to the Ardennes region.
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B.
Hennebont
Hennebont is a historic town in the Morbihan department of Brittany in northwestern France, known for its medieval ramparts and cultural heritage.
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C.
Braye
Braye is a river in central France that serves as a tributary of the Loir.
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D.
Châteaubriant
Châteaubriant is a historic town in western France known for its medieval castle and role as a local administrative and cultural center.
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E.
Savenay
Savenay is a small town in western France known for its historical role in the War in the Vendée and its location between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire.
- 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: Auray Target entity description: Auray is a historic coastal town in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its picturesque old port of Saint-Goustan and medieval architecture.
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A.
Gouvy
Gouvy is a rural municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, known for its natural landscapes and proximity to the Ardennes region.
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B.
Hennebont
Hennebont is a historic town in the Morbihan department of Brittany in northwestern France, known for its medieval ramparts and cultural heritage.
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C.
Braye
Braye is a river in central France that serves as a tributary of the Loir.
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D.
Châteaubriant
Châteaubriant is a historic town in western France known for its medieval castle and role as a local administrative and cultural center.
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E.
Savenay
Savenay is a small town in western France known for its historical role in the War in the Vendée and its location between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | commune ⓘ |
| coastalTown | true ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| currentOfficialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| department | Morbihan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingRegion | Region of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ yachting ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cobblestone streets
ⓘ
half-timbered houses ⓘ stone bridge at Saint-Goustan ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Church of Saint-Gildas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pont de Saint-Goustan NERFINISHED ⓘ Port of Saint-Goustan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPort | Saint-Goustan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSite | Basilica of Sainte-Anne d’Auray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicEvent |
port activity in the Middle Ages
ⓘ
role in regional maritime trade ⓘ |
| historicRegion | Lower Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 56007 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic town center
ⓘ
medieval architecture ⓘ old port of Saint-Goustan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageTraditionallySpoken |
Breton
ⓘ
Gallo ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brittany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
France ⓘ Morbihan department NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Gulf of Morbihan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Auray River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Sainte-Anne-d’Auray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Lorient
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of Auray ⓘ |
| postalCode | 56400 ⓘ |
| railConnections |
Nantes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Quimper NERFINISHED ⓘ Rennes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| transport | Auray railway station 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: Auray Description of subject: Auray is a historic coastal town in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its picturesque old port of Saint-Goustan and medieval architecture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.