Dourdan
E156828
Dourdan is a commune in the Essonne department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France, known for its historic medieval castle and role as a terminus on the RER C suburban rail line.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dourdan canonical | 20 |
| Dourdan, Kingdom of West Francia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T675696 — 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: Dourdan Context triple: [RER C, serves, Dourdan]
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A.
Bourgueil
Bourgueil is a Loire Valley wine appellation in France renowned for its red wines, particularly those made predominantly from Cabernet Franc.
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B.
Poissy
Poissy is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, known for hosting Le Corbusier’s iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
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C.
Melun
Melun is a historic commune in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known as a regional administrative center and former royal town southeast of Paris.
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D.
Clamart
Clamart is a suburban commune in the southwestern outskirts of Paris, France, known in part as the place where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died.
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E.
Martigues
Martigues is a French football club based in the town of Martigues in southern France, known for having been one of the early professional teams in Eric Cantona’s career.
- 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: Dourdan Target entity description: Dourdan is a commune in the Essonne department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France, known for its historic medieval castle and role as a terminus on the RER C suburban rail line.
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A.
Bourgueil
Bourgueil is a Loire Valley wine appellation in France renowned for its red wines, particularly those made predominantly from Cabernet Franc.
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B.
Poissy
Poissy is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, known for hosting Le Corbusier’s iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
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C.
Melun
Melun is a historic commune in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known as a regional administrative center and former royal town southeast of Paris.
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D.
Clamart
Clamart is a suburban commune in the southwestern outskirts of Paris, France, known in part as the place where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died.
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E.
Martigues
Martigues is a French football club based in the town of Martigues in southern France, known for having been one of the early professional teams in Eric Cantona’s career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | commune ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| demographicsLabel | Dourdannais ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 91 ⓘ |
| distanceFromParis | approximately 44 km southwest ⓘ |
| governingBody | municipal council of Dourdan ⓘ |
| hasBuilding | Saint-Germain-de-Paris church of Dourdan ⓘ |
| hasCulturalEvent | local festivals and fairs ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
local commerce and services
ⓘ
tourism related to medieval castle ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
fortified medieval architecture
ⓘ
historic town center ⓘ suburban commuter town character ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | site with protected historical monuments ⓘ |
| hasINSEECODE | 91200 ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Château de Dourdan
ⓘ
medieval castle of Dourdan ⓘ |
| hasMayor | (current mayor; name may change over time) ⓘ |
| hasPublicService |
local schools
ⓘ
municipal library ⓘ town hall of Dourdan ⓘ |
| hasRailTerminus |
RER C line
ⓘ
linked to:
RER Line C
|
| heritageType | medieval royal town (historical) ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Hurepoix ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Essonne department
ⓘ
linked to:
Essonne
southern suburbs of Paris ⓘ Île-de-France region ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Paris ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Orge river basin ⓘ |
| partOf |
Grand Paris metropolitan area (functional influence)
ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Paris urban area
arrondissement of Étampes ⓘ
linked to:
Étampes arrondissement
canton of Dourdan ⓘ |
| postalCode | 91410 ⓘ |
| regionCapitalOf | canton of Dourdan ⓘ |
| roadAccess | regional road network of Essonne ⓘ |
| servedBy |
Dourdan railway station
ⓘ
linked to:
Dourdan station
|
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| transportConnection |
Paris RER network
ⓘ
linked to:
RER network
Île-de-France regional rail network ⓘ
linked to:
Île-de-France rail network
|
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: Dourdan Description of subject: Dourdan is a commune in the Essonne department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France, known for its historic medieval castle and role as a terminus on the RER C suburban rail line.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dourdan