Canton of Kourou
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The Canton of Kourou was an administrative division in French Guiana centered on the town of Kourou, known for hosting the Guiana Space Centre.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canton of Kourou canonical | 1 |
| canton of Kourou-1 | 1 |
| canton of Kourou-2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6781564 — 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: Canton of Kourou Context triple: [Kourou, adminCenterOf, Canton of Kourou]
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A.
Saint-Louis Department
Saint-Louis Department is an administrative division in northern Senegal that encompasses the historic city of Saint-Louis and its surrounding areas.
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B.
Coulouvrenière district
The Coulouvrenière district is a historic neighborhood in Geneva, Switzerland, situated along the Rhône and known for its bridges, urban development, and former industrial and military sites.
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C.
GrandʼAnse Department
GrandʼAnse Department is an administrative region in southwestern Haiti known for its mountainous terrain, coastal areas, and agricultural production.
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D.
canton of Saint-Affrique
The canton of Saint-Affrique is an administrative division in the Aveyron department of southern France, centered on the town of Saint-Affrique and grouping several surrounding communes.
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E.
Yamoussoukro Autonomous District
Yamoussoukro Autonomous District is a special administrative region in central Côte d'Ivoire that encompasses the national capital, Yamoussoukro.
- 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: Canton of Kourou Target entity description: The Canton of Kourou was an administrative division in French Guiana centered on the town of Kourou, known for hosting the Guiana Space Centre.
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A.
Saint-Louis Department
Saint-Louis Department is an administrative division in northern Senegal that encompasses the historic city of Saint-Louis and its surrounding areas.
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B.
Coulouvrenière district
The Coulouvrenière district is a historic neighborhood in Geneva, Switzerland, situated along the Rhône and known for its bridges, urban development, and former industrial and military sites.
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C.
GrandʼAnse Department
GrandʼAnse Department is an administrative region in southwestern Haiti known for its mountainous terrain, coastal areas, and agricultural production.
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D.
canton of Saint-Affrique
The canton of Saint-Affrique is an administrative division in the Aveyron department of southern France, centered on the town of Saint-Affrique and grouping several surrounding communes.
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E.
Yamoussoukro Autonomous District
Yamoussoukro Autonomous District is a special administrative region in central Côte d'Ivoire that encompasses the national capital, Yamoussoukro.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canton of France
ⓘ
former administrative division ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Kourou ⓘ |
| area | 2160 ⓘ |
| areaUnit | square kilometres ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| capital | Kourou ⓘ |
| contains | Kourou ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| disestablishedIn | 2015 ⓘ |
| dissolvedOn | 2015-12-31 ⓘ |
| formerSubdivisionOf | French Guiana ⓘ |
| INSEECode | 97304 ⓘ |
| knownFor | proximity to Guiana Space Centre ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| legalStatus | overseas canton of France ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arrondissement of Cayenne
ⓘ
French Guiana ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Atlantic coast of South America ⓘ |
| lowestAdministrativeLevel | canton ⓘ |
| numberOfCommunes | 1 ⓘ |
| partOf |
French Guiana
ⓘ
Overseas department of French Guiana ⓘ
linked to:
French Guiana
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| population | 25690 ⓘ |
| populationAsOf | 2012 ⓘ |
| populationUnit | inhabitants ⓘ |
| reasonForDissolution |
French canton reorganisation
ⓘ
linked to:
French canton reorganisation of 2015
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| replacedBy |
canton of Kourou-1
ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Kourou
canton of Kourou-2 ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Kourou
|
| timeZone | UTC−03:00 ⓘ |
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: Canton of Kourou Description of subject: The Canton of Kourou was an administrative division in French Guiana centered on the town of Kourou, known for hosting the Guiana Space Centre.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Canton of Kourou
linked to: Canton of Kourou