Canton of Menton
E831373
The Canton of Menton is an administrative division in southeastern France centered on the coastal town of Menton near the Italian border.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canton of Menton canonical | 1 |
| Cantons of Alpes-Maritimes | 1 |
| Menton canton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9939038 — 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: Canton of Menton Context triple: [Menton, isPartOf, Canton of Menton]
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A.
Canton of Annecy-le-Vieux
The Canton of Annecy-le-Vieux was a former administrative division in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, centered on the suburban area northeast of Annecy.
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B.
Canton of Le Mont-Blanc
The Canton of Le Mont-Blanc was a short-lived administrative division of the First French Empire, created in the early 19th century around the Mont Blanc region and including the town of Chamonix.
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C.
Canton of Beausoleil
The Canton of Beausoleil is an administrative division in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, bordering Monaco and encompassing several coastal and hillside communes on the French Riviera.
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D.
canton of Fréjus
The canton of Fréjus is an administrative division in the Var department of southeastern France, centered around the coastal town of Fréjus.
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E.
Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut District
Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut District is an administrative district in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, encompassing lakeside towns on Lake Geneva and alpine villages in the Prealps.
- 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: Canton of Menton Target entity description: The Canton of Menton is an administrative division in southeastern France centered on the coastal town of Menton near the Italian border.
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A.
Canton of Annecy-le-Vieux
The Canton of Annecy-le-Vieux was a former administrative division in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, centered on the suburban area northeast of Annecy.
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B.
Canton of Le Mont-Blanc
The Canton of Le Mont-Blanc was a short-lived administrative division of the First French Empire, created in the early 19th century around the Mont Blanc region and including the town of Chamonix.
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C.
Canton of Beausoleil
The Canton of Beausoleil is an administrative division in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, bordering Monaco and encompassing several coastal and hillside communes on the French Riviera.
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D.
canton of Fréjus
The canton of Fréjus is an administrative division in the Var department of southeastern France, centered around the coastal town of Fréjus.
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E.
Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut District
Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut District is an administrative district in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, encompassing lakeside towns on Lake Geneva and alpine villages in the Prealps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former canton of France ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Menton ⓘ |
| area_km2 | 70.26 ⓘ |
| border | Italy ⓘ |
| contains |
Menton
ⓘ
commune of Menton ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| dissolvedBy | French canton reorganisation of 2015 ⓘ |
| dissolvedOn | 2015-03-29 ⓘ |
| elevationAvg_m | 200 ⓘ |
| elevationMax_m | 1200 ⓘ |
| elevationMin_m | 0 ⓘ |
| INSEECode | 06 16 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alpes-Maritimes department
ⓘ
linked to:
Alpes-Maritimes
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region ⓘ
linked to:
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
southeastern France ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Italian border ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Menton ⓘ |
| numberOfCommunes | 1 ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Nice
ⓘ
linked to:
Arrondissement of Nice
|
| population | 41749 ⓘ |
| populationDate | 2012 ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| usedFor | election of departmental councillors ⓘ |
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: Canton of Menton Description of subject: The Canton of Menton is an administrative division in southeastern France centered on the coastal town of Menton near the Italian border.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Canton of Menton
linked to: Canton of Menton