Montfermeil
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Montfermeil is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France, best known in literature as the town where Victor Hugo’s character Cosette lives with the Thénardiers in *Les Misérables*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Montfermeil canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5779015 — 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: Montfermeil Context triple: [Cosette, formerResidence, Montfermeil]
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A.
Champs-sur-Marne
Champs-sur-Marne is a suburban commune in the eastern outskirts of Paris, France, known for its historic château and role as a hub for higher education and research institutions.
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B.
Nogent-sur-Marne
Nogent-sur-Marne is a suburban commune in the eastern outskirts of Paris, France, known for its riverside setting along the Marne and its residential character.
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C.
Vaucresson
Vaucresson is a suburban commune in the western outskirts of Paris, France, known for its residential character and green surroundings.
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D.
Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
Pierrefitte-sur-Seine is a northern suburb of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of France, notable for hosting the main site of the French National Archives.
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E.
Nogent-sur-Seine
Nogent-sur-Seine is a commune in north-central France known for its riverside setting on the Seine and its proximity to the Nogent-sur-Seine Nuclear Power Plant.
- 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: Montfermeil Target entity description: Montfermeil is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France, best known in literature as the town where Victor Hugo’s character Cosette lives with the Thénardiers in *Les Misérables*.
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A.
Champs-sur-Marne
Champs-sur-Marne is a suburban commune in the eastern outskirts of Paris, France, known for its historic château and role as a hub for higher education and research institutions.
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B.
Nogent-sur-Marne
Nogent-sur-Marne is a suburban commune in the eastern outskirts of Paris, France, known for its riverside setting along the Marne and its residential character.
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C.
Vaucresson
Vaucresson is a suburban commune in the western outskirts of Paris, France, known for its residential character and green surroundings.
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D.
Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
Pierrefitte-sur-Seine is a northern suburb of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of France, notable for hosting the main site of the French National Archives.
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E.
Nogent-sur-Seine
Nogent-sur-Seine is a commune in north-central France known for its riverside setting on the Seine and its proximity to the Nogent-sur-Seine Nuclear Power Plant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeDivision |
arrondissement of Le Raincy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of Tremblay-en-France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Les Misérables NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 93 ⓘ |
| featuredAuthor | Victor Hugo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalResident |
Cosette
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madame Thénardier NERFINISHED ⓘ Thénardier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLiterarySignificance | Les Misérables NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection | Île-de-France public transport network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown | (various, twinning relationships exist but specific partners not recalled) ⓘ |
| inception | Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Seine-Saint-Denis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern suburbs of Paris ⓘ mainland France ⓘ northern France NERFINISHED ⓘ Île-de-France region ⓘ
surface form:
Île-de-France
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| locatedNear | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Parisian plateau ⓘ |
| municipalStatus | commune ⓘ |
| namedAfter | fermeil (old French term related to ‘closed land’ or ‘enclosed farm’) ⓘ |
| notableFor | setting for Cosette’s childhood in Les Misérables ⓘ |
| partOf | Grand Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 93370 ⓘ |
| region |
Île-de-France region
ⓘ
surface form:
Île-de-France
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| timeZone |
CEST
ⓘ
CET ⓘ |
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: Montfermeil Description of subject: Montfermeil is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France, best known in literature as the town where Victor Hugo’s character Cosette lives with the Thénardiers in *Les Misérables*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Clichy-sous-Bois