Ille-et-Vilaine
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Ille-et-Vilaine is a department in northwestern France known for its capital Rennes and its location within the historic region of Brittany.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ille-et-Vilaine canonical | 31 |
| Ille-et-Vilaine department | 8 |
| department of Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 |
| prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1352612 — 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: Ille-et-Vilaine Context triple: [Brittany, contains, Ille-et-Vilaine]
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A.
Morbihan
Morbihan is a coastal department in the Brittany region of northwestern France, known for its historic towns, megalithic sites, and scenic Gulf of Morbihan.
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B.
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime is a coastal department in the Normandy region of northern France, known for its port city of Le Havre and the historic town of Rouen.
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C.
Côtes-d'Armor
Côtes-d'Armor is a coastal department in northwestern France known for its rugged granite coastlines, historic towns, and Celtic-influenced Breton culture.
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D.
Mayenne
Mayenne is a river in western France that flows through the regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire before joining other waterways to form the Loire basin.
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E.
Finistère
Finistère is a coastal department in western France known for its rugged Atlantic shoreline, historic ports, and strong Breton cultural heritage.
- 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: Ille-et-Vilaine Target entity description: Ille-et-Vilaine is a department in northwestern France known for its capital Rennes and its location within the historic region of Brittany.
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A.
Morbihan
Morbihan is a coastal department in the Brittany region of northwestern France, known for its historic towns, megalithic sites, and scenic Gulf of Morbihan.
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B.
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime is a coastal department in the Normandy region of northern France, known for its port city of Le Havre and the historic town of Rouen.
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C.
Côtes-d'Armor
Côtes-d'Armor is a coastal department in northwestern France known for its rugged granite coastlines, historic towns, and Celtic-influenced Breton culture.
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D.
Mayenne
Mayenne is a river in western France that flows through the regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire before joining other waterways to form the Loire basin.
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E.
Finistère
Finistère is a coastal department in western France known for its rugged Atlantic shoreline, historic ports, and strong Breton cultural heritage.
- 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: Ille-et-Vilaine Description of subject: Ille-et-Vilaine is a department in northwestern France known for its capital Rennes and its location within the historic region of Brittany.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ille-et-Vilaine
subject linked to:
Loire-Atlantique department
subject linked to:
Maine-et-Loire department
linked to: Ille-et-Vilaine
linked to: Ille-et-Vilaine
linked to: Ille-et-Vilaine
subject linked to:
Sarthe department
subject linked to:
Le Minihic-sur-Rance, France
subject linked to:
Le Minihic-sur-Rance, France
linked to: Ille-et-Vilaine
subject linked to:
Royal Square of Rennes (Place du Parlement de Bretagne surroundings)
linked to: Ille-et-Vilaine
linked to: Ille-et-Vilaine
subject linked to:
department of Mayenne