Potigny
E672922
Potigny is a commune in the Calvados department of the Normandy region in northwestern France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Potigny canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7091471 — 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: Potigny Context triple: [Arrondissement of Caen, contains, Potigny]
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A.
Pontigny
Pontigny is a French village best known for its historic Cistercian abbey, one of the earliest and largest of the order.
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B.
Pontarlier
Pontarlier is a historic town in eastern France near the Swiss border, known for its role in the absinthe industry and its location in the Jura Mountains.
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C.
Remigny
Remigny is a small wine-producing village in the Burgundy region of eastern France, situated near the renowned appellation of Santenay.
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D.
Pougny
Pougny is a small French commune, likely located near the Swiss border in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
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E.
Tournan
Tournan is a suburban town in the Île-de-France region of France that serves as an outer terminus for Paris’s RER commuter rail network.
- 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: Potigny Target entity description: Potigny is a commune in the Calvados department of the Normandy region in northwestern France.
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A.
Pontigny
Pontigny is a French village best known for its historic Cistercian abbey, one of the earliest and largest of the order.
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B.
Pontarlier
Pontarlier is a historic town in eastern France near the Swiss border, known for its role in the absinthe industry and its location in the Jura Mountains.
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C.
Remigny
Remigny is a small wine-producing village in the Burgundy region of eastern France, situated near the renowned appellation of Santenay.
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D.
Pougny
Pougny is a small French commune, likely located near the Swiss border in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
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E.
Tournan
Tournan is a suburban town in the Île-de-France region of France that serves as an outer terminus for Paris’s RER commuter rail network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| area | 4.26 square kilometres ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| department | Calvados NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationMax | 206 ⓘ |
| elevationMin | 125 ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatus | commune ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural commune ⓘ |
| INSEECode | 14516 ⓘ |
| localGovernmentType | commune council ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Calvados department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
arrondissement of Caen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of Falaise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricRegion | Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
Calvados department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Normandy region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 14420 ⓘ |
| region | Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesBorderWith |
Bons-Tassilly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ouilly-le-Tesson NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Pierre-Canivet NERFINISHED ⓘ Soumont-Saint-Quentin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
CEST
ⓘ
CET ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | +1 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | +2 ⓘ |
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: Potigny Description of subject: Potigny is a commune in the Calvados department of the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.