Saint-Denis
E142986
Saint-Denis is the largest city and administrative, economic, and cultural center of the French overseas department of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Saint-Denis canonical | 11 |
| Saint-Denis (de facto) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1238505 — 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-Denis Context triple: [Réunion, capital, Saint-Denis]
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A.
Saint-Denis
Saint-Denis is a northern suburb of Paris known for its historic basilica, diverse population, and major sports venues including the Stade de France.
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Basilica of Saint-Denis
The Basilica of Saint-Denis is a historic medieval abbey church near Paris, regarded as the first major monument of Gothic architecture and the traditional burial site of French kings.
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C.
Vézelay
Vézelay is a historic hilltop village in central France renowned for its Romanesque Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine and its role as a medieval pilgrimage site on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
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D.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a historic town in the western suburbs of Paris, France, known for its royal château and long association with the French monarchy.
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Amboise
Amboise is a historic town in central France on the Loire River, known for its royal château and as the place where Leonardo da Vinci spent his final years.
- 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-Denis Target entity description: Saint-Denis is the largest city and administrative, economic, and cultural center of the French overseas department of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
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A.
Saint-Denis
Saint-Denis is a northern suburb of Paris known for its historic basilica, diverse population, and major sports venues including the Stade de France.
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B.
Basilica of Saint-Denis
The Basilica of Saint-Denis is a historic medieval abbey church near Paris, regarded as the first major monument of Gothic architecture and the traditional burial site of French kings.
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C.
Vézelay
Vézelay is a historic hilltop village in central France renowned for its Romanesque Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine and its role as a medieval pilgrimage site on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
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D.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a historic town in the western suburbs of Paris, France, known for its royal château and long association with the French monarchy.
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E.
Amboise
Amboise is a historic town in central France on the Loire River, known for its royal château and as the place where Leonardo da Vinci spent his final years.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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-Denis Description of subject: Saint-Denis is the largest city and administrative, economic, and cultural center of the French overseas department of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Route Nationale 1
subject linked to:
Route Nationale 1
subject linked to:
RUN
subject linked to:
FMEE
subject linked to:
French Protectorate of Réunion (early protectorate arrangements before full colony status)
linked to: Saint-Denis