Gare de Cherbourg
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Gare de Cherbourg is a major railway station in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France, serving as a key regional and intercity rail terminus in Normandy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cherbourg station | 3 |
| Gare de Cherbourg canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8720050 — 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: Gare de Cherbourg Context triple: [TER Normandie, primaryHub, Gare de Cherbourg]
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A.
Gare du Havre
Gare du Havre is the main railway station in Le Havre, France, serving as a key regional and intercity transport hub.
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B.
Gare de Caen
Gare de Caen is the main railway station serving the city of Caen in northwestern France, providing regional and long-distance train connections.
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C.
Gare de Beaulieu-sur-Mer
Gare de Beaulieu-sur-Mer is a coastal railway station on the French Riviera that serves the town of Beaulieu-sur-Mer with regional TER train connections.
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D.
Calais-Fréthun railway station
Calais-Fréthun railway station is an international rail hub in northern France that connects Calais to high-speed domestic and cross-Channel services, including Eurostar trains.
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E.
Gare de Granville
Gare de Granville is a regional railway station in Granville, Normandy, France, serving as a key terminus for TER Normandie services connecting the town with major destinations such as Paris.
- 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: Gare de Cherbourg Target entity description: Gare de Cherbourg is a major railway station in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France, serving as a key regional and intercity rail terminus in Normandy.
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A.
Gare du Havre
Gare du Havre is the main railway station in Le Havre, France, serving as a key regional and intercity transport hub.
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B.
Gare de Caen
Gare de Caen is the main railway station serving the city of Caen in northwestern France, providing regional and long-distance train connections.
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C.
Gare de Beaulieu-sur-Mer
Gare de Beaulieu-sur-Mer is a coastal railway station on the French Riviera that serves the town of Beaulieu-sur-Mer with regional TER train connections.
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D.
Calais-Fréthun railway station
Calais-Fréthun railway station is an international rail hub in northern France that connects Calais to high-speed domestic and cross-Channel services, including Eurostar trains.
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E.
Gare de Granville
Gare de Granville is a regional railway station in Granville, Normandy, France, serving as a key terminus for TER Normandie services connecting the town with major destinations such as Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
railway station
ⓘ
train station ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Caen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lison NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris-Saint-Lazare NERFINISHED ⓘ Valognes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fareZoneSystem | TER Normandie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAccessibilityFeatures |
assistance for reduced-mobility passengers
ⓘ
step-free access ⓘ |
| hasBuilding | passenger building ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
bus connections
ⓘ
car park ⓘ taxi rank ⓘ ticket machines ⓘ ticket office ⓘ toilets ⓘ waiting room ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasPlatformType |
island platforms
ⓘ
side platforms ⓘ |
| hasRailGauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| hasServiceType |
intercity
ⓘ
long-distance ⓘ regional ⓘ |
| hasStationCode | UAR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isElectrified | true ⓘ |
| isTerminus | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Cherbourg-en-Cotentin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCityCentre | true ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | France ⓘ |
| locatedInDepartment | Manche NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Cherbourg ferry terminal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cherbourg port area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | SNCF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | SNCF ⓘ |
| passengerService |
TER Normandie services
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
intercity trains ⓘ regional trains ⓘ |
| railNetwork | SNCF Réseau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railwayLine | Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serves |
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
port of Cherbourg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| terminusOf | Mantes-la-Jolie–Cherbourg railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ticketingSystem | SNCF national ticketing ⓘ |
| timezone | Europe/Paris ⓘ |
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: Gare de Cherbourg Description of subject: Gare de Cherbourg is a major railway station in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France, serving as a key regional and intercity rail terminus in Normandy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cherbourg station
this entity surface form:
Cherbourg station
this entity surface form:
Cherbourg station