Poitiers
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Poitiers is a historic city in western France known for its Romanesque architecture, medieval heritage, and role as a regional center in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Poitiers canonical | 61 |
| City of Poitiers | 4 |
| Poitiers, France | 3 |
| city of Poitiers | 3 |
| Poitiers city centre | 1 |
| Sainte-Croix district of Poitiers | 1 |
| de Poitiers | 1 |
| the city of Poitiers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T339924 — 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: Poitiers Context triple: [Göttingen, twinTown, Poitiers]
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A.
Angers
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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B.
Montluçon
Montluçon is a historic industrial town in central France known for its medieval old quarter and role as a key urban center in the Allier department.
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C.
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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D.
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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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: Poitiers Target entity description: Poitiers is a historic city in western France known for its Romanesque architecture, medieval heritage, and role as a regional center in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
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A.
Angers
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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B.
Montluçon
Montluçon is a historic industrial town in central France known for its medieval old quarter and role as a key urban center in the Allier department.
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C.
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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D.
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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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: Poitiers Description of subject: Poitiers is a historic city in western France known for its Romanesque architecture, medieval heritage, and role as a regional center in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
Referenced by (75)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Göttingen
this entity surface form:
Poitiers, France
this entity surface form:
Poitiers, France
this entity surface form:
city of Poitiers
subject surface form:
Paul-Michel Foucault
this entity surface form:
Poitiers, France
this entity surface form:
the city of Poitiers
subject surface form:
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Poitiers
subject surface form:
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Poitiers
subject surface form:
Faculty of Sports Sciences, University of Poitiers
this entity surface form:
de Poitiers
subject surface form:
Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Poitiers
subject surface form:
Faculty of Arts and Humanities (University of Poitiers)