Loir
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The Loir is a river in central France that flows through the regions of Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire before joining the Sarthe.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Loir canonical | 17 |
| Loir River | 14 |
| Loir basin | 1 |
| Vallée du Loir | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T484650 — 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: Loir Context triple: [Loire, hasTributary, Loir]
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A.
Allier River
The Allier River is a major river in central France, known for its largely unspoiled natural course and as a tributary of the Loire.
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B.
Yonne
Yonne is a major river in north-central France that flows through the Burgundy region before joining the Seine.
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C.
Nièvre
Nièvre is a rural department in central France’s Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, known for its rolling countryside, the Loire River, and its capital city Nevers.
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D.
Loire
The Loire is the longest river in France, renowned for its scenic valley dotted with historic châteaux and vineyards.
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E.
Creuse
Creuse is a rural department in central France known for its sparsely populated landscapes, traditional agriculture, and part of the historic Limousin region.
- 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: Loir Target entity description: The Loir is a river in central France that flows through the regions of Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire before joining the Sarthe.
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A.
Allier River
The Allier River is a major river in central France, known for its largely unspoiled natural course and as a tributary of the Loire.
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B.
Yonne
Yonne is a major river in north-central France that flows through the Burgundy region before joining the Seine.
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C.
Nièvre
Nièvre is a rural department in central France’s Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, known for its rolling countryside, the Loire River, and its capital city Nevers.
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D.
Loire
The Loire is the longest river in France, renowned for its scenic valley dotted with historic châteaux and vineyards.
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E.
Creuse
Creuse is a rural department in central France known for its sparsely populated landscapes, traditional agriculture, and part of the historic Limousin region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Loir Description of subject: The Loir is a river in central France that flows through the regions of Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire before joining the Sarthe.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Loir River
this entity surface form:
Loir River
this entity surface form:
Loir River
subject surface form:
Sarthe
this entity surface form:
Loir River
this entity surface form:
Loir River
this entity surface form:
Loir River
this entity surface form:
Loir River
this entity surface form:
Loir River
this entity surface form:
Loir River
this entity surface form:
Loir River
subject surface form:
Poncé-sur-le-Loir
subject surface form:
Poncé-sur-le-Loir
this entity surface form:
Loir River
this entity surface form:
Loir River