Place de Grève
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Place de Grève was the historic riverside square in Paris, long associated with public gatherings, executions, and laborers seeking work, before being redeveloped as today’s Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Place de Grève canonical | 2 |
| Place de Grève, Paris | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8718359 — 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: Place de Grève Context triple: [Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération, formerName, Place de Grève]
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Place des Terreaux
Place des Terreaux is a historic central square in Lyon, France, known for its monumental Bartholdi Fountain, the City Hall, and its role as a major cultural and social hub of the Presqu’île district.
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Square de la Roquette
Square de la Roquette is a small public park in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, known for its landscaped greenery and local neighborhood atmosphere.
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Place de la Contrescarpe
Place de la Contrescarpe is a small, lively square in Paris known for its cafés, restaurants, and village-like atmosphere near the Panthéon and Rue Mouffetard.
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Place de la Carrière
Place de la Carrière is a historic, tree-lined square in Nancy, France, known for its classical architecture and role as part of the city’s UNESCO-listed 18th-century urban ensemble.
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Place des Palais
Place des Palais is a prominent public square in central Brussels, Belgium, situated between the Royal Palace and the Parc de Bruxelles and often used for official events and public gatherings.
- 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: Place de Grève Target entity description: Place de Grève was the historic riverside square in Paris, long associated with public gatherings, executions, and laborers seeking work, before being redeveloped as today’s Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville.
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Place des Terreaux
Place des Terreaux is a historic central square in Lyon, France, known for its monumental Bartholdi Fountain, the City Hall, and its role as a major cultural and social hub of the Presqu’île district.
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B.
Square de la Roquette
Square de la Roquette is a small public park in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, known for its landscaped greenery and local neighborhood atmosphere.
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C.
Place de la Contrescarpe
Place de la Contrescarpe is a small, lively square in Paris known for its cafés, restaurants, and village-like atmosphere near the Panthéon and Rue Mouffetard.
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Place de la Carrière
Place de la Carrière is a historic, tree-lined square in Nancy, France, known for its classical architecture and role as part of the city’s UNESCO-listed 18th-century urban ensemble.
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Place des Palais
Place des Palais is a prominent public square in central Brussels, Belgium, situated between the Royal Palace and the Parc de Bruxelles and often used for official events and public gatherings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former execution site
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historic public square ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Hôtel de Ville de Paris ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Parisian municipal power
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urban labor movements in Paris ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| culturalMeaning | symbol of social protest in French historical memory ⓘ |
| currentName | Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération ⓘ |
| demolishedOrRedeveloped | 19th century ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville ⓘ |
| hasEtymology | French word "grève" meaning "gravelly shore" or "strand" ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | site of medieval Parisian river port activities ⓘ |
| hasNotableEventType |
executions by burning
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executions by hanging ⓘ torture and corporal punishment ⓘ |
| hasNotableFunction | traditional meeting point for unemployed workers ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Ancien Régime
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French Revolution ⓘ Middle Ages ⓘ |
| influencedTerm | French word "grève" meaning "strike" ⓘ |
| knownFor |
laborers seeking work
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popular demonstrations ⓘ public executions ⓘ public gatherings ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
4th arrondissement of Paris
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Paris ⓘ |
| locatedOn | right bank of the River Seine ⓘ |
| near |
Pont d’Arcole
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Île de la Cité ⓘ |
| partOf | historic center of Paris ⓘ |
| redevelopedAs | modern square in front of Paris City Hall ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville ⓘ |
| topographicalOrigin | sandy and gravelly riverbank of the Seine ⓘ |
| usedFor |
festivities and public celebrations
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public punishments ⓘ royal proclamations ⓘ |
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: Place de Grève Description of subject: Place de Grève was the historic riverside square in Paris, long associated with public gatherings, executions, and laborers seeking work, before being redeveloped as today’s Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Place de Grève