La Force prison
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La Force prison was a notorious Parisian jail during the French Revolution, known for housing political prisoners and being a major site of revolutionary violence.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Force prison canonical | 4 |
| La Force Prison | 2 |
| Bicêtre prison | 1 |
| Hôtel de la Force prison buildings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T993501 — 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: La Force prison Context triple: [September Massacres, tookPlaceIn, La Force prison]
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A.
Île d’Yeu prison
Île d’Yeu prison was a French island penitentiary best known for holding Marshal Philippe Pétain during his post–World War II imprisonment.
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B.
Devil’s Island
Devil’s Island is a notorious former French penal colony off the coast of French Guiana, infamous for its harsh conditions and for imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus during the Dreyfus affair.
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C.
Bhisho
Bhisho is a small administrative town in South Africa that serves as the political and governmental center of the Eastern Cape province.
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D.
Prisoners Harbor
Prisoners Harbor is a remote coastal anchorage and former ranching site on Santa Cruz Island in California’s Channel Islands, serving today as a primary access point for visitors to the island.
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E.
Sugamo Prison
Sugamo Prison was a Tokyo detention facility used by the Allied occupation forces after World War II to hold and execute Japanese war criminals, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
- 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: La Force prison Target entity description: La Force prison was a notorious Parisian jail during the French Revolution, known for housing political prisoners and being a major site of revolutionary violence.
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A.
Île d’Yeu prison
Île d’Yeu prison was a French island penitentiary best known for holding Marshal Philippe Pétain during his post–World War II imprisonment.
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B.
Devil’s Island
Devil’s Island is a notorious former French penal colony off the coast of French Guiana, infamous for its harsh conditions and for imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus during the Dreyfus affair.
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C.
Bhisho
Bhisho is a small administrative town in South Africa that serves as the political and governmental center of the Eastern Cape province.
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D.
Prisoners Harbor
Prisoners Harbor is a remote coastal anchorage and former ranching site on Santa Cruz Island in California’s Channel Islands, serving today as a primary access point for visitors to the island.
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E.
Sugamo Prison
Sugamo Prison was a Tokyo detention facility used by the Allied occupation forces after World War II to hold and execute Japanese war criminals, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: La Force prison Description of subject: La Force prison was a notorious Parisian jail during the French Revolution, known for housing political prisoners and being a major site of revolutionary violence.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Force prison
linked to: La Force prison
linked to: La Force prison
subject linked to:
Duc de La Force
linked to: La Force prison