Figeac
E160119
Figeac is a historic town in southwestern France known for its medieval architecture and as the birthplace of Jean-François Champollion, who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Figeac canonical | 31 |
| Office de Tourisme de Figeac | 1 |
| town of Figeac | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T717309 — 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: Figeac Context triple: [Occitanie, containsCity, Figeac]
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A.
Ribérac
Ribérac is a small historic town in southwestern France’s Dordogne department, known for its traditional markets and rural charm.
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B.
Fronsac
Fronsac is a French wine appellation on the right bank of the Dordogne River, known for its Merlot-based red wines and proximity to Bordeaux.
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C.
Blagnac
Blagnac is a suburban town near Toulouse in southwestern France, best known for hosting the headquarters and main facilities of the aircraft manufacturer Airbus.
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D.
Uzès
Uzès is a historic town in southern France’s Occitanie region, known for its well-preserved medieval architecture and proximity to the Pont du Gard.
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E.
Montluçon
Montluçon is a historic industrial town in central France known for its medieval old quarter and role as a key urban center in the Allier department.
- 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: Figeac Target entity description: Figeac is a historic town in southwestern France known for its medieval architecture and as the birthplace of Jean-François Champollion, who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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A.
Ribérac
Ribérac is a small historic town in southwestern France’s Dordogne department, known for its traditional markets and rural charm.
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B.
Fronsac
Fronsac is a French wine appellation on the right bank of the Dordogne River, known for its Merlot-based red wines and proximity to Bordeaux.
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C.
Blagnac
Blagnac is a suburban town near Toulouse in southwestern France, best known for hosting the headquarters and main facilities of the aircraft manufacturer Airbus.
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D.
Uzès
Uzès is a historic town in southern France’s Occitanie region, known for its well-preserved medieval architecture and proximity to the Pont du Gard.
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E.
Montluçon
Montluçon is a historic industrial town in central France known for its medieval old quarter and role as a key urban center in the Allier department.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Figeac Description of subject: Figeac is a historic town in southwestern France known for its medieval architecture and as the birthplace of Jean-François Champollion, who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Figeac
subject linked to:
Lot department
subject linked to:
Lot department
subject linked to:
Lot valley
subject linked to:
historical province of Quercy
linked to: Figeac