Carpiquet
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Carpiquet is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, known in part for its nearby Caen–Carpiquet Airport and its role in World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carpiquet canonical | 2 |
| Carpiquet airfield | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7091481 — 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: Carpiquet Context triple: [Arrondissement of Caen, contains, Carpiquet]
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A.
Charlevoix Municipal Airport
Charlevoix Municipal Airport is a public airport serving the Charlevoix, Michigan area, providing general aviation services and regional air connectivity.
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B.
Amiens–Glisy Aerodrome
Amiens–Glisy Aerodrome is a regional civil airport serving the city of Amiens in northern France.
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C.
Gillot Airport
Gillot Airport is the former name of Roland Garros Airport, the main international airport serving Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
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D.
Nancy-Essey Airport
Nancy-Essey Airport is a regional airport serving the city of Nancy and its surrounding area in northeastern France.
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E.
Bismarck Municipal Airport
Bismarck Municipal Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the city of Bismarck and the surrounding region in central North Dakota.
- 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: Carpiquet Target entity description: Carpiquet is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, known in part for its nearby Caen–Carpiquet Airport and its role in World War II.
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A.
Charlevoix Municipal Airport
Charlevoix Municipal Airport is a public airport serving the Charlevoix, Michigan area, providing general aviation services and regional air connectivity.
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B.
Amiens–Glisy Aerodrome
Amiens–Glisy Aerodrome is a regional civil airport serving the city of Amiens in northern France.
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C.
Gillot Airport
Gillot Airport is the former name of Roland Garros Airport, the main international airport serving Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
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D.
Nancy-Essey Airport
Nancy-Essey Airport is a regional airport serving the city of Nancy and its surrounding area in northeastern France.
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E.
Bismarck Municipal Airport
Bismarck Municipal Airport is the primary commercial airport serving the city of Bismarck and the surrounding region in central North Dakota.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II battle
ⓘ
airport ⓘ commune of France ⓘ |
| belongsTo | French Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| currency | euro ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 14 ⓘ |
| governmentType | commune council ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Caen–Carpiquet Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDepartment | Calvados NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearby | Caen–Carpiquet Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportInfrastructure | Caen–Carpiquet Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| higherAdministrativeUnit |
Calvados department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Normandy region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | World War II fighting around Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 14137 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Calvados department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carpiquet NERFINISHED ⓘ Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| near | Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
Battle of Normandy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
arrondissement of Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ canton of Caen-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsRoleIn | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 14650 ⓘ |
| region | Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves | Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | commune ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasSiteOf | Battle of Carpiquet 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: Carpiquet Description of subject: Carpiquet is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, known in part for its nearby Caen–Carpiquet Airport and its role in World War II.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Carpiquet airfield