Angers
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Angers is a historic city in western France known for its medieval architecture, including the Château d'Angers and its famous Apocalypse Tapestry.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Angers canonical | 75 |
| Angers, France | 3 |
| Ville d’Angers | 3 |
| Angers city centre | 2 |
| city of Angers | 2 |
| Andecavum – Angers | 1 |
| modern Angers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T332788 — 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: Angers Context triple: [Polish government-in-exile, capital, Angers]
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A.
Nantes
Nantes is a historic port city in western France on the Loire River, known for its maritime heritage, cultural institutions, and vibrant arts scene.
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B.
Rouen
Rouen is a historic city in northern France renowned for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and association with figures like Joan of Arc and the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
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Rennes
Rennes is the capital city of France’s Brittany region, known for its historic medieval center, vibrant student population, and role as a major cultural and economic hub in western France.
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D.
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a central French city known for its historic cathedral built of black volcanic stone and as the longtime headquarters of the tire company Michelin.
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E.
Châteauroux
Châteauroux is a city in central France that will host the shooting events for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
- 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: Angers Target entity description: Angers is a historic city in western France known for its medieval architecture, including the Château d'Angers and its famous Apocalypse Tapestry.
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A.
Nantes
Nantes is a historic port city in western France on the Loire River, known for its maritime heritage, cultural institutions, and vibrant arts scene.
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B.
Rouen
Rouen is a historic city in northern France renowned for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and association with figures like Joan of Arc and the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
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C.
Rennes
Rennes is the capital city of France’s Brittany region, known for its historic medieval center, vibrant student population, and role as a major cultural and economic hub in western France.
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D.
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a central French city known for its historic cathedral built of black volcanic stone and as the longtime headquarters of the tire company Michelin.
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E.
Châteauroux
Châteauroux is a city in central France that will host the shooting events for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Angers Description of subject: Angers is a historic city in western France known for its medieval architecture, including the Château d'Angers and its famous Apocalypse Tapestry.
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Haarlem
Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Angers
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subject surface form:
Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire
this entity surface form:
Angers, France
subject surface form:
Maine-et-Loire
subject surface form:
Maine-et-Loire
subject surface form:
Maine-et-Loire
this entity surface form:
Andecavum – Angers
this entity surface form:
Angers, France
this entity surface form:
Angers, France