Rue Léon-Foucault, Paris
E760677
Rue Léon-Foucault in Paris is a street named in honor of the 19th-century French physicist Léon Foucault, renowned for demonstrating Earth's rotation with the Foucault pendulum.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rue Léon-Foucault, Paris canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8803817 — 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: Rue Léon-Foucault, Paris Context triple: [Léon Foucault, hasPlaceNamedAfter, Rue Léon-Foucault, Paris]
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Avenue Robert-Debré, Paris
Avenue Robert-Debré, Paris is a Parisian street named in honor of the pioneering French pediatrician Robert Debré, located near major medical and educational institutions.
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B.
Rue de la Ferronnerie, Paris
Rue de la Ferronnerie in Paris is a historic street best known as the site where King Henry IV of France was assassinated by François Ravaillac in 1610.
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C.
Rue du Bac, Paris
Rue du Bac in Paris is a renowned Catholic pilgrimage site best known for the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, associated with 19th-century Marian apparitions to Saint Catherine Labouré.
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D.
27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris
27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris is the famed Parisian apartment that served as Gertrude Stein’s literary salon, hosting many leading modernist writers and artists in the early 20th century.
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E.
Rue de Valois, Paris
Rue de Valois, Paris is a historic street in the 1st arrondissement known for housing the headquarters of France’s Ministry of Culture near the Palais-Royal.
- 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: Rue Léon-Foucault, Paris Target entity description: Rue Léon-Foucault in Paris is a street named in honor of the 19th-century French physicist Léon Foucault, renowned for demonstrating Earth's rotation with the Foucault pendulum.
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A.
Avenue Robert-Debré, Paris
Avenue Robert-Debré, Paris is a Parisian street named in honor of the pioneering French pediatrician Robert Debré, located near major medical and educational institutions.
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B.
Rue de la Ferronnerie, Paris
Rue de la Ferronnerie in Paris is a historic street best known as the site where King Henry IV of France was assassinated by François Ravaillac in 1610.
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C.
Rue du Bac, Paris
Rue du Bac in Paris is a renowned Catholic pilgrimage site best known for the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, associated with 19th-century Marian apparitions to Saint Catherine Labouré.
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D.
27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris
27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris is the famed Parisian apartment that served as Gertrude Stein’s literary salon, hosting many leading modernist writers and artists in the early 20th century.
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E.
Rue de Valois, Paris
Rue de Valois, Paris is a historic street in the 1st arrondissement known for housing the headquarters of France’s Ministry of Culture near the Palais-Royal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
street
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thoroughfare ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| eponymNotableFor |
Foucault pendulum
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demonstration of Earth’s rotation ⓘ |
| hasNameLanguage | French ⓘ |
| inMunicipality | Paris ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Paris ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Léon Foucault ⓘ |
| namedForCenturyOfEponym | 19th century ⓘ |
| namedForOccupationOfEponym | physicist ⓘ |
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: Rue Léon-Foucault, Paris Description of subject: Rue Léon-Foucault in Paris is a street named in honor of the 19th-century French physicist Léon Foucault, renowned for demonstrating Earth's rotation with the Foucault pendulum.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.