Place Bellecour
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Place Bellecour is a vast central square in Lyon, France, known as one of the largest open squares in Europe and a major hub for the city's social and commercial life.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Place Bellecour canonical | 20 |
| Bellecour square | 1 |
| Place Bellecour (French) | 1 |
| Place Bellecour ensemble | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T629318 — 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 Bellecour Context triple: [Lyon, hasLandmark, Place Bellecour]
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A.
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.
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B.
Place du Luxembourg
Place du Luxembourg is a prominent square in Brussels, Belgium, known as a social and political hub due to its location directly in front of the European Parliament complex.
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Place de la Bastille
Place de la Bastille is a historic square in Paris, France, known as the former site of the Bastille prison and a symbolic landmark of the French Revolution.
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Place de Fontenoy
Place de Fontenoy is a prominent square in Paris’s 7th arrondissement, best known as the site of UNESCO’s main headquarters near the École Militaire and the Champ de Mars.
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E.
Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière
The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière is a prominent 19th-century hilltop church in Lyon, France, known for its ornate architecture and panoramic views over the city.
- 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 Bellecour Target entity description: Place Bellecour is a vast central square in Lyon, France, known as one of the largest open squares in Europe and a major hub for the city's social and commercial life.
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A.
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.
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B.
Place du Luxembourg
Place du Luxembourg is a prominent square in Brussels, Belgium, known as a social and political hub due to its location directly in front of the European Parliament complex.
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C.
Place de la Bastille
Place de la Bastille is a historic square in Paris, France, known as the former site of the Bastille prison and a symbolic landmark of the French Revolution.
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D.
Place de Fontenoy
Place de Fontenoy is a prominent square in Paris’s 7th arrondissement, best known as the site of UNESCO’s main headquarters near the École Militaire and the Champ de Mars.
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Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière
The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière is a prominent 19th-century hilltop church in Lyon, France, known for its ornate architecture and panoramic views over the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public square
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urban square ⓘ |
| area | approximately 62,000 square metres ⓘ |
| cityCentreRole |
major commercial hub of Lyon
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major social hub of Lyon ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Pont Bonaparte
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Pont de la Guillotière ⓘ Rue Victor-Hugo ⓘ Rue de la République ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 45.7575°N 4.8325°E ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| function |
venue for demonstrations
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venue for markets and fairs ⓘ venue for public events ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Place Bellecour
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Place Bellecour (French)
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| hasPart |
equestrian statue of Louis XIV
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metro station Bellecour ⓘ statue of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the Little Prince ⓘ tourist information office ⓘ two large fountains ⓘ underground car park ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière
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Fourvière Hill ⓘ
surface form:
Fourvière hill
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| heritageDesignation | part of UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Site of Lyon ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Christmas market
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Fête des Lumières installations ⓘ being one of the largest open squares in Europe ⓘ central meeting point in Lyon ⓘ |
| languageUsed | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Lyon ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Lyon metropolitan area
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surface form:
Metropolis of Lyon
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| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
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surface form:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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| municipality | Lyon 2nd arrondissement ⓘ |
| nearby |
Presqu’île district
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Rhône River ⓘ Saône River ⓘ Traboules of Lyon ⓘ
surface form:
Vieux Lyon
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| pedestrianZone | yes ⓘ |
| postalCode | 69002 ⓘ |
| servedByTransport |
Lyon Metro line A
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Lyon Metro line D ⓘ TCL tram connections nearby ⓘ multiple TCL bus lines ⓘ |
| shape | rectangular ⓘ |
| surfaceType | open paved square ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
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Central European Time ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
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 Bellecour Description of subject: Place Bellecour is a vast central square in Lyon, France, known as one of the largest open squares in Europe and a major hub for the city's social and commercial life.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Place Bellecour (French)
subject surface form:
Presqu’île (Lyon)
this entity surface form:
Place Bellecour ensemble
this entity surface form:
Bellecour square