Picauville
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Picauville is a commune in the Manche department of northwestern France, situated in the historical region of Normandy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Picauville canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9219238 — 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: Picauville Context triple: [canton of Carentan-les-Marais, containsAdministrativeTerritorialEntity, Picauville]
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A.
Boutteville
Boutteville is a small commune in the Manche department of northwestern France, situated in the Normandy region.
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B.
Herbeumont
Herbeumont is a picturesque village and municipality in the Belgian Ardennes, known for its forested landscapes, medieval castle ruins, and scenic views over the Semois valley.
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C.
Balbec
Balbec is a fictional seaside resort town in Marcel Proust’s novel cycle "In Search of Lost Time," serving as a key backdrop for the narrator’s experiences and reflections on memory, love, and society.
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D.
Pont-Audemer
Pont-Audemer is a historic market town in northern France known for its picturesque canals and half-timbered houses, often called the "Norman Venice."
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E.
L’Isle-en-Dodon
L’Isle-en-Dodon is a small commune in southwestern France, known for its rural charm and location in the rolling countryside of the Haute-Garonne department.
- 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: Picauville Target entity description: Picauville is a commune in the Manche department of northwestern France, situated in the historical region of Normandy.
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A.
Boutteville
Boutteville is a small commune in the Manche department of northwestern France, situated in the Normandy region.
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B.
Herbeumont
Herbeumont is a picturesque village and municipality in the Belgian Ardennes, known for its forested landscapes, medieval castle ruins, and scenic views over the Semois valley.
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C.
Balbec
Balbec is a fictional seaside resort town in Marcel Proust’s novel cycle "In Search of Lost Time," serving as a key backdrop for the narrator’s experiences and reflections on memory, love, and society.
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D.
Pont-Audemer
Pont-Audemer is a historic market town in northern France known for its picturesque canals and half-timbered houses, often called the "Norman Venice."
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E.
L’Isle-en-Dodon
L’Isle-en-Dodon is a small commune in southwestern France, known for its rural charm and location in the rolling countryside of the Haute-Garonne department.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| area | 34.55 square kilometres ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| department | Manche ⓘ |
| elevation | 13 metres ⓘ |
| elevationMax | 36 metres ⓘ |
| elevationMin | 2 metres ⓘ |
| hasDemonym |
Picauvillais
ⓘ
Picauvillaise ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Church of Saint-Candide ⓘ |
| hasMayor | Jacky Marie ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| historicalEvent |
World War II Normandy landings area
ⓘ
linked to:
D-Day landing area
|
| historicalRegion | Normandy ⓘ |
| INSEECode | 50402 ⓘ |
| liberatedDuring | Operation Overlord ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manche department
ⓘ
Normandy ⓘ north of the Cotentin Marshes ⓘ northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Carentan-les-Marais
ⓘ
Sainte-Mère-Église ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Cotentin Peninsula ⓘ |
| mayoralTerm | 2020–2026 ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Cherbourg
ⓘ
canton of Carentan-les-Marais ⓘ intercommunality La Baie du Cotentin ⓘ |
| postalCode | 50360 ⓘ |
| region | Normandy ⓘ |
| timeZoneOffset | +1 ⓘ |
| timeZoneOffsetDST | +2 ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | Euro ⓘ |
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: Picauville Description of subject: Picauville is a commune in the Manche department of northwestern France, situated in the historical region of Normandy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.