May-sur-Orne
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May-sur-Orne is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, situated just south of the city of Caen in the Normandy region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| May-sur-Orne canonical | 1 |
| May-sur-Orne area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7091475 — 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: May-sur-Orne Context triple: [Arrondissement of Caen, contains, May-sur-Orne]
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A.
Bessin
Bessin is a historic coastal region in Normandy, northwestern France, known for its medieval heritage and its role in the D-Day landings of World War II.
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B.
Pacy-sur-Eure
Pacy-sur-Eure is a small commune in northern France’s Normandy region, known for its picturesque riverside setting and historic town center.
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C.
Sarthe
Sarthe is a department in western France known for its capital Le Mans and the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race.
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D.
Sarthe
Sarthe is a river in western France that flows through the regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire before joining other waterways to form the Loire basin.
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E.
Avranches
Avranches is a historic town in northwestern France, near Mont-Saint-Michel, known for its medieval heritage and role in the liberation of Normandy during World War II.
- 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: May-sur-Orne Target entity description: May-sur-Orne is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, situated just south of the city of Caen in the Normandy region.
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A.
Bessin
Bessin is a historic coastal region in Normandy, northwestern France, known for its medieval heritage and its role in the D-Day landings of World War II.
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B.
Pacy-sur-Eure
Pacy-sur-Eure is a small commune in northern France’s Normandy region, known for its picturesque riverside setting and historic town center.
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C.
Sarthe
Sarthe is a river in western France that flows through the regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire before joining other waterways to form the Loire basin.
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D.
Sarthe
Sarthe is a department in western France known for its capital Le Mans and the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race.
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E.
Avranches
Avranches is a historic town in northwestern France, near Mont-Saint-Michel, known for its medieval heritage and role in the liberation of Normandy during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| callingCode | +33 ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| demographics | population in the low thousands ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal council of May-sur-Orne ⓘ |
| hasClimate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite | Église Saint-Martin de May-sur-Orne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustrialHistory | iron ore mining ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural
ⓘ
former mining areas ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernmentForm | mayor–council system ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatus | commune ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | municipal website of May-sur-Orne ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection | bus services to Caen ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 14410 ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Calvados
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedInDepartment | Calvados NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInGeographicalRegion | Norman bocage ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | Basse-Normandie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Normandy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Orne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
Normandy metropolitan area of Caen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
arrondissement of Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ canton of Évrecy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 14320 ⓘ |
| roadAccessVia |
D562 road
ⓘ
D89 road ⓘ |
| sharesBorderWith |
Bourguébus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fontenay-le-Marmion NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-André-sur-Orne NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Martin-de-Fontenay NERFINISHED ⓘ Éterville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneOffset | +1 ⓘ |
| timeZoneOffsetDST | +2 ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | euro ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | 14 ⓘ |
| wasSiteOf | World War II fighting in Normandy ⓘ |
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: May-sur-Orne Description of subject: May-sur-Orne is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, situated just south of the city of Caen in the Normandy region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
May-sur-Orne area