Boulogne-sur-Mer
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Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city and major fishing port in northern France, located on the English Channel in the Pas-de-Calais department.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T928853 — 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: Boulogne-sur-Mer Context triple: [José de San Martín, deathPlace, Boulogne-sur-Mer]
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Boulogne-sur-Seine
Boulogne-sur-Seine was a former commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, now part of Boulogne-Billancourt, known historically as a residential and industrial area along the Seine River.
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Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a major French port city on the Cotentin Peninsula, known for its strategic naval harbor and cross-Channel ferry connections.
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Honfleur
Honfleur is a historic port town in Normandy, northern France, renowned for its picturesque old harbor, timber-framed houses, and association with Impressionist painters.
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Calais
Calais is a major French port city on the northern coast, serving as one of the primary crossing points between France and England.
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Rouen
Rouen is a historic city in northern France renowned for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and association with figures like Joan of Arc and the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
- 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: Boulogne-sur-Mer Target entity description: Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city and major fishing port in northern France, located on the English Channel in the Pas-de-Calais department.
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Boulogne-sur-Seine
Boulogne-sur-Seine was a former commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, now part of Boulogne-Billancourt, known historically as a residential and industrial area along the Seine River.
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Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a major French port city on the Cotentin Peninsula, known for its strategic naval harbor and cross-Channel ferry connections.
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Honfleur
Honfleur is a historic port town in Normandy, northern France, renowned for its picturesque old harbor, timber-framed houses, and association with Impressionist painters.
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Calais
Calais is a major French port city on the northern coast, serving as one of the primary crossing points between France and England.
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Rouen
Rouen is a historic city in northern France renowned for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and association with figures like Joan of Arc and the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
- 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: Boulogne-sur-Mer Description of subject: Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city and major fishing port in northern France, located on the English Channel in the Pas-de-Calais department.
Referenced by (134)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France
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northern France
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