Basse-Terre
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Basse-Terre is a town on the western island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, serving as the administrative and political center of this French overseas region.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Basse-Terre canonical | 29 |
| Basse-Terre Island | 15 |
| Basse-Terre (city) | 1 |
| Basse-Terre (historically for French part of the island) | 1 |
| Basse-Terre (town) | 1 |
| Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe | 1 |
| island of Basse-Terre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T806681 — 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: Basse-Terre Context triple: [Guadeloupe, capital, Basse-Terre]
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Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique
Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique is a coastal commune in the French Caribbean island of Martinique, best known as the birthplace of Empress Joséphine, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Martinique
Martinique is a Caribbean island and French overseas region known for its blend of French and Creole culture, volcanic landscapes, and beaches.
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Gros Islet
Gros Islet is a coastal town in northern Saint Lucia known for its popular Friday night street party, beaches, and proximity to the island’s main tourism and yachting areas.
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Grande Île
Grande Île is the historic center of Strasbourg, France, renowned for its medieval architecture, canals, and the Gothic Strasbourg Cathedral.
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Saint-Pierre
Saint-Pierre is the main town and administrative center of the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.
- 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: Basse-Terre Target entity description: Basse-Terre is a town on the western island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, serving as the administrative and political center of this French overseas region.
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A.
Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique
Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique is a coastal commune in the French Caribbean island of Martinique, best known as the birthplace of Empress Joséphine, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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B.
Martinique
Martinique is a Caribbean island and French overseas region known for its blend of French and Creole culture, volcanic landscapes, and beaches.
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C.
Gros Islet
Gros Islet is a coastal town in northern Saint Lucia known for its popular Friday night street party, beaches, and proximity to the island’s main tourism and yachting areas.
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Grande Île
Grande Île is the historic center of Strasbourg, France, renowned for its medieval architecture, canals, and the Gothic Strasbourg Cathedral.
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E.
Saint-Pierre
Saint-Pierre is the main town and administrative center of the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Basse-Terre Description of subject: Basse-Terre is a town on the western island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, serving as the administrative and political center of this French overseas region.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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La Soufrière
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La Soufrière
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La Soufrière
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Sierra Negra
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subject linked to:
served by Route Nationale 1
Saint-Christophe
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administrativeCenter
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Basse-Terre (historically for French part of the island)
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