Saint-Louis
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Saint-Louis is a historic coastal city in northwestern Senegal that served as a major colonial administrative and trading center in French West Africa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint-Louis canonical | 19 |
| city of Saint-Louis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T766692 — 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: Saint-Louis Context triple: [French West Africa, capital, Saint-Louis]
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A.
Saint-Louis
Saint-Louis is a French border town in the Alsace region, adjacent to Basel and known as a key cross-border transit and commuter hub between France, Switzerland, and Germany.
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B.
Orléans
Orléans is a federal electoral district in the eastern part of Ottawa, Ontario, represented in the House of Commons of Canada.
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Orléans
Orléans is a historic city in north-central France, renowned for its association with Joan of Arc and its location on the Loire River.
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D.
Orleans
Orleans is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, fishing, and role as a popular summer vacation destination.
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E.
Lafayette
Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key general in the American Revolutionary War and a symbol of Franco-American alliance.
- 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: Saint-Louis Target entity description: Saint-Louis is a historic coastal city in northwestern Senegal that served as a major colonial administrative and trading center in French West Africa.
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A.
Saint-Louis
Saint-Louis is a French border town in the Alsace region, adjacent to Basel and known as a key cross-border transit and commuter hub between France, Switzerland, and Germany.
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B.
Orléans
Orléans is a federal electoral district in the eastern part of Ottawa, Ontario, represented in the House of Commons of Canada.
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C.
Orléans
Orléans is a historic city in north-central France, renowned for its association with Joan of Arc and its location on the Loire River.
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D.
Orleans
Orleans is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, fishing, and role as a popular summer vacation destination.
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E.
Lafayette
Lafayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who became a key general in the American Revolutionary War and a symbol of Franco-American alliance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Saint-Louis Description of subject: Saint-Louis is a historic coastal city in northwestern Senegal that served as a major colonial administrative and trading center in French West Africa.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Saint-Louis